“I do not,” he gently said.
“But your name, is a name, whose meaning is lion.”
“This is not my name -but what you call me.”
"My name is sea,
it is mountain and tree,
"My name is sea,
it is mountain and tree,
it is light, it is space,
and the substance it fills ...
it is water - it is bell,
it is the tide of life itself,
it is the tide of life itself,
- of knowledge, of love -of will.
And by this Grace,
and that Virtue,
and all we call Divine, these names for this eternity are also thee and thine.
And by this Grace,
and that Virtue,
and all we call Divine, these names for this eternity are also thee and thine.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander series
"Sweep away the Illusion of Time; glance, if thou have eyes, from
ReplyDeletethe near moving-cause to its far distant Mover: The stroke that came
transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, was it less a
stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? Oh,
could I (with the Time-annihilating Hat) transport thee direct from
the Beginnings, to the Endings, how were thy eyesight unsealed, and thy
heart set flaming in the Light-sea of celestial wonder! Then sawest thou
that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in
very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through
every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a
present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God,
and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.