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date: 1920-04-12

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transcription: April 12, 1920 - Page 3

-The Light Ascended-

And there burned a light which flowed
As a living stream, beaconing Eternity.
And the fields of the heavens
Glittered as tapers burning upon an altar,
And the sun seemed but a pale star
Beside the brightness, and the moon
Became nothing beside the gentleness.

And the hour was neither morn nor eve,
But day, and the universes sang
In one accord and their notes seemed
As the voices of babes in gladness tuned.
And there was silence an instant,
An awed silence, for the hour
Had come for a certain sacrifice
And behold, Heaven became an altar
For its receiving and it burned an instant
In a holy fire of agony
And ascended!
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Record thou this:

Heaven be not a thing which belongeth unto all
men. Nay, Heaven belongeth each man separately. It
is his in its entirety.

Knowing this, what need hath man for grudging?
More I say unto thee. Each man enjoyeth his
Heaven -- I say his Heaven -- for the thing he enjoyeth
is that same Heaven shall not be thine.

Yea, and I say me there be naught of intrustion,
for intrustion be the touching of matter.

Though a man be a miseman, yea or the fool or
the wiseun, and doth treasure up the goods of earth,
there cometh a time unto him when he and the beggar
arrive at the toll which is the wicket twixt here and
yon, and each with a sure hand slippeth his hand unto
his hipslot and findeth a twain o' pence.

One hath writ upon it "yea" the tother "nay."
And lo, they fling them down, thereby buyin' in!
What a strange twain, for many's the man who
spendeth his yeas and buyeth nays and many's the man
who spendeth nays and buyeth yeas!

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