Above the reason's brilliant slender curve,

Released like radiant air dimming a moon,

Broad spaces of a vision without line

Or limit swam into his spirit's ken.

 

Oceans of being met his voyaging soul

Calling to infinite discovery;

Timeless domains of joy and absolute power

Stretched out surrounded by the eternal hush;

The ways that lead to endless happiness

Ran like dream-smiles through meditating vasts:

Disclosed stood up in a gold moment's blaze

White sun-steppes in the pathless Infinite.

 

Along a naked curve in bourne less Self

The points that run through the closed heart of things

Shadowed the indeterminable line

That carries the Everlasting through the years.

 

The magician order of the cosmic Mind

Coercing the freedom of infinity

With the stark array of Nature's symbol facts

And life's incessant signals of event,

Transmuted chance recurrenCeS into laws,

A chaos of signs into a universe.

 

Out of the rich wonders and the intricate whorls

Of the spirit's dance with Matter as its mask

The balance of the world's design grew clear,

Its symmetry of self-arranged effects

Managed in the deep perspectives of the soul,

And the realism of its illusive art,

Its logic of infinite intelligence,

Its magic of a changing eternity.

 

It gives a very vivid and strong impression of the logically incoherent and practical confusion of the creation.

 

The appearance is confused, incoherent, as if managed exclusively by chance and hazard.

 

But behind, there is a Conscious Will working and, through this confusion, preparing the evolution towards a greater perfection.

 

When you can rise above the appearances and understand the ways of the Consciousness at work, then you can discover also the goal towards which the universe is tending.

A glimpse was caught of things for ever unknown;

The letters stood out of the unmoving Word.

 

In the immutable nameless Origin

Was seen emerging as from fathomless seas

The trail of the Ideas that made the world,

And, sown in the black earth of Nature's trance,

The seed of the Spirit's blind and huge desire

From which the tree of cosmos was conceived

And spread its magic arms through a dream of space.

 

Immense realities took on a shape:

There looked out from the shadow of the Unknown

The bodiless Namelessness that saw God born

And tries to gainfrom the mortal's mind and soul

A deathless body and a divine name.

 

The immobile lips, the great surreal wings,

The visage masked by superconscient Sleep,

The eyes with their closed lids that see all things,

Appeared of the Architect who builds in trance.

 

The original Desire born in the Void

Peered out; he saw the hope that never sleeps,

The feet that run behind a fleeting fate,

The ineffable meaning of the endless dream.

 

As if a torch held by a power of God,

The radiant world of the everlasting Truth

Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night

Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge.

 

Even were caught as through a cunning veil

The smile of love that sanctions the long game,

The calm indulgence and maternal breasts

Of Wisdom suckling the child-laughter of Chance,

Silence the nurse of the Almighty's power,

The omniscient hush, womb of the immortal Word,

And of the Timeless the still brooding face,

And the creative eye of Eternity.

Happily, the true world and the true Consciousness are not a dream, but the only real Reality for those who are sincere and conscious.

 

Bonne Année

for 1970

 

with all my love and blessinigs

The Mother

All these images are meant to break the ordinary receptivity of mind, and to open it to the conception vaster, truer, creative, of the Supramental.

 

It is only in a receptive silence—when the whole inquisitive mind stops moving—that one can feel and understand the images described in these verses.