Journey of the Soul

 

Wisdom of Soul and Light
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 Dear Friends!
   
 I feel compelled to share something deeply personal and precious with you. I present to you a poem born from years of devotion to the remarkable book "James's Pilgrimage" by George Arnsby Jones. For 27 years, this work has illuminated my path, inspired and guided me.
   
 Each stanza of the poem reflects profound truths that I have discovered time and time again within the pages of this beloved book. Now, I invite you to embark on this extraordinary mental journey, where every word serves as a bridge between the earthly and the sublime, between the everyday and the eternal.
   
 Let us together touch this story, told through the language of poetry. I hope these verses will resonate in your hearts, just as the book once resonated in mine.
   
 With warmth and gratitude for sharing this special moment with me. ;
Prologue

I. The Primordial State

In realms beyond the mortal sight,
Where thought is pure as morning dew,
Where spirit dwells in endless light,
And love remains forever true.

Beyond the stars and cosmic space,
Where time dissolves in timeless sea,
I dwelt in that eternal grace,
Where all is One, and One is free.

Here every breath was pure delight,
Each moment held eternity,
No shadows dimmed the sacred light
That was my true identity.
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II. The Music of the Spheres

Divine symphonic waves of light
Through starlit fields forever flow,
Each sound reveals the sacred might
Of truths that mortals seldom know.

Within this music, deep and clear,
All secrets of creation dwell,
Each note, a cosmic hemisphere,
Each tone, a story yet to tell.

Like streams of pure celestial fire,
These melodies of boundless grace
Awake the soul's supreme desire
To find its true eternal face.
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III. Astral Worlds

In gardens where celestial flames
Bloom forth as flowers touched with gold,
Where stars like scattered pearls proclaim
The mysteries that worlds unfold.

Here pure enchantment fills the air
With light that mortal eyes can't see,
And music flows beyond compare
Through depths of immortality.

Each realm reveals another gate
To wisdom's ever-deepening store,
Where time and space participate
In dances never seen before.

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IV. Love as the Essence of Being

Here "I" and "thou" dissolve as one
Into the light that knows no bound,
Where tears and triumphs both are done,
And only love's pure truth is found.

No separation mars this plane
Where unity prevails supreme,
Like snowflakes melting in the rain
To join the universal stream.

The perfect peace that dwells above
All earthly thoughts of loss or gain,
Reveals the essence pure of love
That shall eternally remain.


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V. Premonition of the Path

But suddenly within my soul
A sacred calling stirred anew,
A whisper of a greater role
That I was destined to pursue.

Not as command or stern decree,
But love's own gentle, guiding light:
Through stellar paths of destiny,
I must descend from astral height.

This call held all that was to be:
The joy, the pain, the sacred quest,
Each step already known to me,
Each trial a divinely appointed test.

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VI. Predestination

I knew that in the realms below,
Where time holds fast its heavy reign,
There dwelt one who would help me grow,
Who'd guide me through all earthly pain.

In this knowing lay no fear,
No sorrow for the heights above -
Just quiet trembling, crystal clear,
For future meetings blessed with love.

All paths, like mountain peaks sublime,
Led to the One whose sacred grace
Would guide me through the mists of time
To find my soul's appointed place.

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VII. Resolution

The hour had come - I must descend,
Leave spheres of music pure and bright.
Though birth would mark my journey's end,
This path was destined, true and right.

Within this choice lay wisdom deep
Of years that I would walk below,
To find that light that souls must keep
Through every triumph, every woe.

Not sacrifice of heights divine,
Nor exile to a darker sphere -
But diving deep in wisdom's mine
To find the treasures hidden here.


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VIII. The Spiritual Guide

O holy Adept, whose living face
I glimpsed through starry veils above,
Your light leads through all worldly haze,
In your flame I truly live and love.

Within your eyes all truths reside,
Each glance holds wisdom of the ages,
Each look a purifying tide
That cleanses life through all its stages.

You were not just a sacred sight,
A vision midst celestial dreams -
But Living Word, eternal light
That carries truth through all extremes.

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IX. The Descent

Now denser grows the atmosphere,
Space shrinks and ether starts to fade,
As I glide down through unknown sphere
To matter's mysterious glade.

Each step becomes more weighted now,
Time's curtain thickens like a wall,
As memory dims of sacred vow,
Like twilight shadows starting to fall.

This sinking into density
Is not mere loss of freedom's wings -
But donning robes of destiny
To learn what earthly wisdom brings.

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X. The Moment of Birth

Now closer draws earth's boundary line,
More distant rings the spheres' sweet song...
Yet in my heart will ever shine
That light which guides where I belong.

The final ray of sacred fire
That walked with me through stellar height
Now coils within, a secret pyre,
To be my star through earthly night.

Each moment brings the threshold near
Where spirit meets its fleshly home,
Yet something stays forever clear:
The path by which we'll all return home.


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XI. The Forgetting

The lofty window starts to fade,
The stellar fire grows dim and weak,
Yet what was given from above
Remains a secret flame to keep.

Though heaven's heights now blur from view,
Like mountains lost in morning mist,
Deep in my soul still burns the blue
Of stars that first my spirit kissed.

And though I cannot now recall
The splendor of those higher spheres,
Something sings beneath it all -
A song of home beyond the years.

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XII. Hope

Though hidden now in darkness deep,
The path that lies through earthly shade,
I know beyond the starry steep
My Teacher waits with wisdom's aid.

This knowledge lives not in the mind,
Not in the memory of dreams -
But like dewdrops we might find
Before the dawn's first golden beams.

It glows within like ember bright,
Defying all forgetting's power -
This star that guides through darkest night,
My compass in each trying hour.

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XIII. Young Searchings

In days of youth, when bold and free,
Not knowing wisdom's higher way,
I sought truth's pure infinity,
Yearning for eternal day.

Each moment seemed to hold the key
To doors that would reveal the light,
Not knowing in my fervent plea
That path leads through the darkest night.

Yet in that search burned living soul
That remembered royal spheres above,
Though wandering on earth's patrol,
Heaven's call still sang of love.


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XIV. Vision of the Flower

And then one night in silence deep,
A flower bloomed before my sight -
A saffron crown with starry keep,
In sacred chamber burning bright.

Each petal held inscriptions old,
That ancient worlds left for the living,
And in its heart, a spring untold
Kept fires of higher worlds still giving.

This was no mere beauty's form
That mind in midnight dreams might weave -
But first true sign of higher dawn
That soul could finally perceive.

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XV. Transformation

The living light grew ever bright,
That flower, sparkling with such grace,
Transformed into a figure white -
An elder with a wisdom face.

In this transmutation pure
Eternal play revealed its art:
How forms in golden light mature,
How One becomes each separate part.

This crossing from bloom to face
Revealed the law of change divine:
How spirit gives its sacred grace
To any form it may design.

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XVI. Voice of the Holy One

"I am the one who walked through storms,
Who trod the mud on life's hard way,
But knew my Master's guiding forms
Would lead me to eternal day.

I knew each stone beneath my feet,
Each breath of weariness and pain,
Led to that final sacred meet
Where student finds his home again.

Each step you take on earth below,
Each mortal breath you'll have to bear,
Are part of what will help you grow
Until the Master's light you share."


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XVII. The Lesson of Love

"I fear not loss of earthly wealth,
Nor youth's swift passing, nor strength's decline -
More fearful far to lose that health
Of love that makes all life divine.

For in that love lies all that's real,
The key to immortality,
Beyond all vows that time can steal,
It lights our path eternally.

That love dissolves all earthly cares,
All fears that haunt the mortal way,
When in the heart pure light declares
The dawn of everlasting day."

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XVIII. Promise of Meeting

And then he spoke: "Within your soul
Burns bright the sign of future meet,
Where one who makes all spirits whole
Will guide your seeking, pilgrim feet.

This sign stays hidden from earth's eyes,
No shadows can reveal its form,
Yet in your heart it brightly lies,
Like lighthouse guiding through the storm.

This meeting's not mere chance or fate,
Not whim of cosmic circumstance -
But sacred plan that couldn't wait,
To wake the soul from mortal trance."

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XIX. The Teaching

"When you shall find that living form,
Keep safe its image in your heart,
Let it become your guiding star
Through darkened paths where shadows start.

Though reason seeks to understand,
To measure, weigh in formulas clear -
Some truths we only comprehend
When heart's wisdom draws them near.

Don't rush to grasp all mysteries now,
Don't seek truth's full revealing yet -
In time each branch of wisdom's bough
Will bear its fruit when time is met."


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XX. On the Nature of Love

"Earth's love is but the first sweet step
That leads to love's divinest height,
But those who find mere passion's depth
Shall never see the sacred light.

In love there lies eternal truth
Beyond all longings, beyond all dreams,
Where 'I' dissolves in timeless youth,
Where spirit finds what spirit means.

Don't scorn the lessons love can teach
When first it stirs the mortal heart -
It's just the beginning of your reach
Toward heights where greater loves impart."

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XXI. Music of the Higher Spheres

There lies a path to Creator's throne -
The Music of the spheres divine,
That flows into soul's depths unknown
And calls to Truth's eternal shrine.

Within this music secrets dwell
Of all creation's sacred arts,
Each note a story it can tell
Of how the cosmic dance now starts.

This sound's not what earth's ears can hear,
Not what the mind can understand -
But voice of Truth, forever clear,
That wakes the soul to wisdom's land.

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XXII. Uniqueness of Each Soul

No two alike in all the spheres,
Each destiny uniquely drawn,
Yet each one is, through joy and tears,
A note in God's eternal dawn.

In this great dance of different voices,
In weaving of distinct designs,
Lies higher purpose that rejoices
In how each soul uniquely shines.

Like petals of eternal flower,
Each different in shape and hue,
Each soul bears its special power,
Its sacred mark forever true.


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XXIII. Beginning of the Path

And I, who glimpsed those heights sublime
Where changeless power holds its reign,
Knew: my path had just begun in time,
Led by light through darkness, joy and pain.

In that first step - eternity's seal,
All paths that I would have to tread,
And sweet it was in heart to feel
The greatness of the way ahead.

Now dawns the truth: no higher way
Than through this path of sacred fire,
Where every step and every day
Lifts heart's flame ever higher and higher.

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XXIV. Premonition

In boundless seas of starry peace,
Where every sound echoes eternal words,
I hear a call that brings release -
Truth's calling, pure as morning birds.

That call rings not through outer ear,
No earthly sound could bear such might,
But in depths where dawn breaks clear,
It draws us to unending light.

Like lightning through the cosmic dark,
This summons pierces all disguise,
Awakening the sleeping spark
That leads us home to paradise.

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XXV. Meeting in the Astral World

Upon the astral borders high,
Where light and shadow weave their dance,
I met the messengers of sky
Who guide souls' upward advance.

In that dimension, nothing stays
As earth-bound minds perceive below -
Here thought creates reality's ways,
And every step brings wisdom's glow.

Each image here holds depth profound,
Resonating from every side,
As meaning flows without a bound
Through veils that truth no longer hide.


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XXVI. Vision of the Army

Upon an endless spectral plain
A king stood bright with shining blade,
While knights in sacred discipline
Bowed spears in glory's sacred glade.

Each warrior shone like rays of fire
That pierce through cosmic veils of night,
In armor forged from pure desire,
That glows with mysteries of light.

In this great host no earthly passion,
No thirst for battle held its sway -
Just guardians in sacred fashion
Bearing light along the way.

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XXVII. Dialogue with the Adept

"Who is this king?" I asked the seer.
"A servant of fate's ruling hand.
Serve him - and glory shall appear,
Like light streams across the land."

But in the prophet's voice lay hint
Of mystery behind these words:
Not every light leads to ascent,
Not every path brings wisdom's birds.

And in that moment I perceived:
There's power greater than all might,
Where every step becomes retrieved
In fountains of eternal light.

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XXVIII. Reading of the Scroll

The scribe unfolds the ancient scroll
Where names sink deep in time's abyss...
Each syllable, like battles old,
Rings forth creating prophetic bliss.

Within these writings lies no mere
Account of paths and dates gone by,
But secret code where each day clear
Shows future written in the sky.

Each symbol in this scroll divine
Bears more than mortal eye can see -
Each mark a gateway's sacred sign
Where time flows to eternity.


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XXIX. The Warning

"Behold," my guide spoke, "how unseen
The parting of earth's paths takes place:
Some rise as pilgrims to serene
Heights touched by God's eternal grace."

In this great choice lies path's pure heart:
No higher force compels our way,
Just spirit's will to make its start
Toward truth that hidden depths convey.

Each moment is fate's crossroads where
The spirit freely chooses light:
To seek the realms of crystal air,
Or sink in shadows of the night.

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XXX. Appearance of the Magus

Sudden in the heavens high
Appeared a form in flames of might -
The Great Magician of the sky,
Who binds all worlds in dreams of night.

In his grandeur storms did dwell
That veiled the true dawn's sacred light,
His power, like a darkened spell,
Dimmed heaven's glow in moment's flight.

Within him lay all tempter's art,
All powers that outer worlds can give,
Yet secret whispers in my heart
Warned of false paths that deceptive live.

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XXXI. Battle of Reflections

Now facing mirrored armies bright,
Their reflection rises in the veil,
Two destinies on spears of light
Meet in cosmic, holy vale.

This was no common battle cry
Where flesh meets iron in mortal dance -
But Truth's pure string fought falsity,
Light seeking through illusion's trance.

In this great clash no blood was shed,
No bodies fell upon the ground -
Just eternal paths instead
Where light and shadow dance around.


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XXXII. Temptation

"Accept these gifts," the ruler cried,
"Of knowledge deep and power vast.
I'll give you mysteries denied
To mortals from the ages past."

In that moment, phantom rewards,
All mirages of might and fame,
Appeared like sunset's golden hoards
That endless darkness soon would claim.

Those dazzling promises concealed
Not love's pure call, but bondage chain,
That would have forever sealed
The soul in bright but prison pain.

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XXXIII. Refusal

"No!" I cried, "You're not my lord!
Not you who guides through time's dark veil!"
And in that moment's swift accord,
My Teacher came, where shadows fail.

That refusal held no mere speech -
Heart answered falsehood's tempting play,
As spirit pierced through darkness' reach,
Dispelling all deceiving way.

And in this "no" - all purity's might,
All freedom of the chosen way,
When soul, rejecting false delight,
Seeks truth's unending, sacred day.

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XXXIV. Transformation

All heaven blazed with streams of light,
The Magus' shadow fled away.
And in dawn's radiance burning bright,
I saw who saved my soul that day.

This was no common light that shone
Midst heaven's vast eternal dome -
But moment when all shadows gone,
Like snow in spring's warm welcome home.

In this transfiguration's hour
Revealed was truth beyond all sight:
How darkness flees from love's pure power
When love illuminates our night.


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XXXV. Revelation

He spoke a word, both pure and holy,
And asked, "Do you see?" - then in reply
A vision opened, showing slowly:
Past darkness - life, past death - sky's eye.

This "seeing" was no simple sound,
But key to realms yet unexplored,
Where every breath became unbound,
Where truth surpassed each earthly word.

Through veils of time I clearly saw,
Through layers of illusion's screen,
How streams of light, by heaven's law,
Give meaning to all that has been.

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XXXVI. Liberation

And then I knew: all worlds and fights
Are but a mystical parade.
Truth simple stands, like prayer's pure light:
One Path leads home through light and shade.

In this simplicity dwells all -
All secrets melt like morning dew:
No "there" or "here," no great or small -
Just That which ever remains true.

This freedom's not escape from chains,
Not fleeing from world's work and care,
But finding what the heart contains:
The truth that's always dwelling there.

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XXXVII. The Living Master

In earthly space I met His gaze -
So simply did that moment come:
Through veils of mortal being's haze,
I knew those eyes that called me home.

This recognition held no trace
Of time's long separation's pain:
Like spring that melts all winter's face,
Like light through windows after rain.

And in this holy meeting's hour,
When all worlds changed before my sight,
Each moment bloomed like sacred flower
Where love transformed all dark to light.


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XXXVIII. The Master's Song

In that song merged art's pure crown,
All bold creation's soaring flight,
Where every sound - truth's sacred gown,
Each syllable leads to deathless light.

No mortal voice or flesh sang here,
But That which predates all begins,
Where every sound brings newness near,
Till all creation blooms and spins.

This music knows no earthly notes,
No language that our ears can share -
Like sunrise pure that gently floats,
Awakening hearts to morning prayer.

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XXXIX. The Essence of Beauty

Thus beauty flows through countless years,
Now flashing bright, now dimming slow,
Yet heaven's flower still appears,
Still breathes in roots where secrets grow.

In this beauty dwells no death,
No fading of time's brief delight -
But reflection of eternal breath,
Like sunset sending forth its light.

Each beauty here reveals the way
To something deeper than its form,
Like dawn that brings eternal day
Beyond the passing of the storm.

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XL. The Promise

"My son," the Master softly said,
"The hour draws near in earthly space
When I shall give the sacred bread
Of knowledge, keys to higher grace."

In that promise lay no bounds
Between the 'soon' and 'now' and 'then' -
Like flash of lightning that surrounds
All time in one eternal when.

This covenant sealed in heaven's light
Held more than earthly words convey:
A birth of wisdom, burning bright,
Where love transforms our mortal clay.




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XLI. On Skeptics

Let world proclaim life's vanity,
Let doubt corrode in souls its way -
No power holds authority
O'er flames that in high temples pray.

The shadow of doubt - just temporal veil
That dims truth's everlasting shine,
But those who hear the cosmic tale
Will find within the source divine.

Though some may say: "These are but dreams,
Mere fantasy and mind's swift flight..."
Yet those who've seen the sacred beams
Know well where leads their holy light.

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XLII. On False Paths

Not in dogmas lies the truth,
Nor in earth's mysteries profound -
The spirit's heights seek those, in sooth,
Whose hearts with dreams of light are crowned.

How oft the mind in labyrinths lost
Of thoughts created by its toil,
Misses thread that, tempest-tossed,
Leads to golden heart's rich soil.

Be not enticed by outer show
Of teachings promising swift rise -
True wisdom comes to those who know
That humble paths lead to the skies.


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XLIII. The Path of Truth

As carpenter and weaver might
Stand closer to truth's mystery
Than thousand tomes of learned light -
So truth speaks with simplicity.

In simple work where hands and soul
Unite in single flowing stream,
We clearer see spring's fresh unfold,
Each dawn's first ray's awakening beam.

Not in bookish wisdom's way,
Nor Sanskrit verses learned by heart -
But in the pure heart's gentle sway
Where living truth may truly start.

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XLIV. On Trials

Upon this path to freedom's height,
You'll meet dark guardians at the gate,
But sword of pure and radiant light
Shall cleave these barriers of fate.

Each guardian - no foe, but friend
Who tempers spirit's sword supreme,
That you might know through earthly end
Your deathless self in wisdom's dream.

Fear not the darkness you may meet,
Nor shrink from passion's stormy rain -
Only those who bear such heat
May find the light through holy pain.

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XLV. On the Essence of Love

God's love shines like heaven's sun:
Asks nothing, needs no reward,
Flows like song through ages run
By those whom sacred light restored.

No boundaries here 'tween 'yes' and 'no',
'Tween 'can' and 'cannot' melts the line,
Each moment - like dawn's gentle glow
Where hell transforms to light divine.

That love seeks not its own desire,
Asks not for gain or earthly prize -
But burns like pure celestial fire
To light the path for other eyes.

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XLVI. On the Nature of Discipleship

Blessed who meets that holy gaze
Where all the world reflects its light,
Who touches music that can raise
All common days to sacred height.

Within that look - all truth's first springs,
All mysteries of light-filled days,
And who once drinks from those deep springs
Shall walk no more in shadow's ways.

Discipleship's no outer path,
No list of rules that mind dictates -
But secret key that opens forth
Where quiet heart illuminates.

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XLVII. The Covenant

I'll give to you the sacred key -
The password opening all worlds wide,
That you, through thousand partings free,
Might reach love's mountain's shining side.

This key rings not in outer sound,
Not in the words that tongue can tell,
But in love's vibrant holy ground
That wakes our ancient sacred spell.

Keep this gift not in mind alone,
Not in thoughts that drift and stray -
But in heart's deepest cornerstone
Where light can guide your darkened way.



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XLVIII. The Covenant

Remember: steep the path above,
But keep these words I've spoken true:
Only those who follow love
Shall find the way they're guided through.

In this "remember" - path's pure heart:
Not outer memory holds this sign,
But that which shines in inner part,
Like sacred beacon's first design.

Let storms not break this sacred gift,
Nor cares extinguish holy flame -
Keep it as star through shadow's drift,
That lights your way from whence you came.

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XLIX. Initiation

In earthly space I met with Him -
How simple came that holy hour:
Through mortal being's curtain dim,
I knew those eyes of sacred power.

This knowing - like still thunder rolled,
Like lightning in the cloudless spheres,
When soul, forgetting time's firm hold,
Finds timeless love through mortal years.

And in this meeting heaven-sent,
No miracles did cloud the air -
Just quiet light from high descent,
And echo of eternal prayer.

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L. The Word of Power

He then revealed the sacred seal -
Five sounds as ancient as all breath,
That bring the soul to light's reveal,
Bearing wisdom past all death.

Not simple sounds - but gates that lead
To realms beyond our mortal sight,
Where every tone becomes indeed
Alive with first creation's light.

Within them - whispers of the stars,
The dance of spheres, celestial song,
The fire that breaks all prison bars
To lead where souls at last belong.

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LI. First Immersion

Eyes closed, I spoke the sacred word,
And world dissolved like spring-touched snow,
In depths appeared, yet never heard,
Blue vastness none below may know.

First sound - like distant temple bell,
Then thunder midst the silent light,
Then breakthrough past all earthly spell
Where each moment - eternity's height.

This diving deep - no loss in dark,
No fleeing from earth's reality -
But finding that eternal spark
That was our first identity.


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LII. Inner Journey

Lo, opened now a cascade bright
Through azure eye I soared like bird,
In blooming garden of delight
Where each ray as truth occurred.

That garden - not mere place of space
In visible world's measured scheme -
But spirit's state of timeless grace
Where all worlds start at last to gleam.

Here every step - revelation's flight
Where mystery turns crystal clear,
Where spirit, touched by holy light,
Soars free in golden atmosphere.

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LIII. The Descent

But ere we climb to higher sphere,
The Master bade me dive below,
Where souls in darkness persevere
Through deeds' fruits they must come to know.

This descent - no fall through space,
No sinking into passion's sea -
But learning depths of sorrow's face
To know all hearts' deep misery.

Here each soul - a mirror bright
Reflecting its own history,
Where all life's lessons reunite
In one eternal mystery.

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LIV. In Lower Spheres

In depths where fear itself grows dim,
Where time sleeps dreamless, void of sound,
I saw those frozen in their hymn,
Forgetting light in dark profound.

Each moment stretched like endless thread
Through timeless void without a shore,
And souls here lost their power to tread
In streams of light forevermore.

Yet even here in midnight deep,
Where hope seems alien to the heart,
I heard a song begin to leap
Of light that never shall depart.


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LV. Ascension

And upward now I rise again,
Where mountains, forests, ancient, stand,
Where souls rest on their journey's plane
Between lives in this sacred land.

In this ascent - a special light:
Not blinding, yet it leads above,
Where every step like dawn shines bright,
Where spirit grows more still with love.

Here effort ceases, earthly toil
No longer weighs upon the way -
Just light-streams flowing, pure and royal,
Help truth-seekers find their day.

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LVI. The Temple

I entered one round temple fair,
Where met a soul in troubled youth -
Who waited for appointed share
Of life renewed on paths of truth.

This temple shone not gold alone,
Nor marble splendor caught the eye -
But light streamed from time's cornerstone,
Keeping peace of shadows high.

Here every stone breathed living flame,
Each beam sang like eternal spring,
And silence in this golden frame
Flowed clearer than mountain stream.

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LVII. Discourse on Love

"What waits for me?" they asked, and I
Spoke truth both precious and profound:
"Who finds dawn's never-setting sky
Must fill their spirit with peace unbound."

In this truth lay no barriers set,
No fear of what fate might ordain -
Just understanding: each regret
Leads home to eternal domain.

Here lies revealed all mystery:
No greater heights than love can show,
When heart discovers sovereignty
In light that sets all souls aglow.


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LVIII. Truth of Love

"No special wisdom lies in words,
Just echoes of the Master's art:
Love stronger than all truth deferred,
Source of Divine Sound's counterpart.

In this truth - all path's deep ways,
All revelations yet to come:
Love can bear its holy blaze
When world in darkness has succumbed.

Love alone can melt away
All ice of doubt and fear's dark reign,
And in the human heart display
That light which dormant must remain.

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LIX. Farewell

"Keep within what's spoken here,
Let memory light your earthly way.
Secret light in fate shines clear,
Stronger than dark's dim display."

This parting - not mere end of road,
Not step toward future meetings far -
But new phase where what was sowed
Will bloom beneath the morning star.

And in this hour when names were said,
The truth of all my names grew clear:
I am who seeks eternal bread,
Who's lit by light that knows no year.

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LX. Higher Spheres

Beyond we soared through starlit space,
Where faiths' sweet paradise keeps peace:
Here Christian heavens hold their grace,
There Muslim bliss knows no decrease.

In this diversity of ways
Lies highest unity of all,
Where each ray midst sunlit days
Reflects the same eternal call.

Here all paths to truth will lead,
All trails of climbing merge as one,
Like all earth's prayers and every creed
Unite in love's eternal sun.


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LXI. Path's Completion

Yet onward still I swiftly flew
To where, in godly radiance bright,
My Master waited to pursue
Our journey to pure love's delight.

That haste held not some restless push,
Just soul's call remembering its source,
Like petals earthly reaching up
Toward sun's life-giving force.

In this return to sacred height,
Not running from the lower spheres -
But finding in love's crystal light
The truth that banishes all fears.

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LXII. The Cosmic City

Beyond astral plains where peace prevails,
Where stars burn with living blue,
Where comets trail their silver veils,
I rose on pathways ever true.

That city knew no stones nor walls,
No barriers made of spectral light -
But woven from change's waterfalls
Where each ray held its own delight.

Here every spire soared past heaven's crown,
And domes shone like new-birthed worlds,
In this splendor, not renown,
But timeless purity unfurls.

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LXIII. At the Crossroads

Upon the slope where merging light
With violet glory victories keep,
Three pilgrims stood at signs of might:
Left, right, and center where dawns leap.

In this choice no paths proved wrong -
All routes led to one destined place,
Yet wisdom sought midst fiery throng
The thread that bore most living grace.

And in that moment pure and clear,
I understood: each start must find
Its way through love's atmosphere
Where all paths leave their bounds behind.


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LXIV. Temptation

"Behold," a nameless whisper called,
"Here power and knowledge wait for you..."
But Power's Password swiftly solved
All spells, as morning melts the dew.

In that whisper lay the test
Of ages: grandeur or still truth?
But heart remembering dewdrops blessed
Knew where to find eternal youth.

Like sweet illusion's golden gleam,
How bright the phantom glories shone!
Yet heart recalled a higher dream
Where Master waited on His throne.

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LXV. The True Path

And Teacher's voice: "The middle way
Shall lift you to the highest sphere.
Through this road we'll find today
Those realms where truth grows crystal clear."

That balance - not mere halfway mark
Between extremes in wisdom's quest,
But wisdom piercing through the dark,
Leading to eternity's rest.

Here every step through purest light
Reveals the law none can deny:
The higher grows our inner sight,
The deeper truths we can descry.

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LXVI. City of Light

Before me spread a wondrous sight:
Where domes with heaven's radiance glow,
Where thousand petals take their flight,
Weaving starlit patterns' flow.

In this city time held no sway -
Here eternity breathed in each ray,
And countless souls found holy way
In one, unmeasured, living day.

That city knew no shade nor bound,
No walls dividing light from light -
Here every crystal, pure and sound,
Reflected one love infinite.


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LXVII. Meeting with Khosrow

In gardens where eternal springs
Pour forth their ever-living light,
We met the sage who wisdom brings,
Whose glance held ancient mystery's might.

His presence - like a quiet glade
Where every breath holds sacred peace,
Where wisdom needs no gates or blade,
But breathes with depth that cannot cease.

In him no sage's pride held sway,
No trace of greatness won or earned -
Just pure mirror's crystal way
Where truth eternally has burned.

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LXVIII. On Nature of Worlds

"Seven islands in time's sea,
Nine realms of consciousness and dream -
All held by Word's authority
That pierces spheres with living beam."

In this structure of sacred start
No chaos dwells, but living design,
Where every world that shines apart
Holds converse with the grand divine.

Each world unfolds another gate
To wisdom's ever-deepening store,
Like steps upon which souls await
Their climbing to the farther shore.

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LXIX. On Higher Path

"The path of yoga leads on high
To heaven's peaks of pure delight,
But further rise it can't supply -
Love's path alone leads to full height."

In knowledge lies a boundary set
Where mind becomes its own dark wall,
But heart with love forever lit
Finds pathways past the highest call.

Not in strength of spirit's might,
Nor in passion's fierce control -
But in that flame burning bright:
Love's spark that makes all beings whole.


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LXX. Revelation of God

"Beyond each limit spreads vast space,
Past every knowledge - knowledge shines,
And what seemed summit in our race
Just first dawn on wisdom's lines."

In these boundless heights supreme
No point exists to say "I've won" -
The higher rises spirit's dream,
More bright becomes the holy sun.

Past every knowing - further heights,
Behind each dawn - new mysteries dwell,
What yesterday seemed wisdom's light
Today just starts new tales to tell.

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LXXI. Mystery of God-beyond-God

"There dwells a God who rules below,
But higher still reigns Lord more vast,
And this divine circle's flow
Leads to secrets unsurpassed."

Behind each light - new light burns bright,
Behind each door - new star appears,
And what seems prayer's highest flight
Just first step to sacred spheres.

In this mystery of mysteries lies
An answer earth's mind cannot hold:
No final summit marks the skies,
No end to sacred truths untold.

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LXXII. On Nature of Power

"None eternal in these spheres of light,
Though beautiful their temporal glow.
Only in highest love burns bright
The deathless flame all souls must know."

And in this wisdom lies path's heart:
Not power, might make us what we're meant,
But light that plays the inner part,
Beyond all systems' measurement.

Though power robes in bright array,
Though endless seems its lofty height -
Only that which loves can stay,
Only pure heart holds true light.


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LXXIII. Predestination

"Here many souls have found their rest,
Thinking highest joy attained,
But true path finds only blessed
Those whose hearts love's light maintained."

That earthly joy - like shadow thin
Of higher worlds' true ecstasy,
Where every dawn and twilight dim
Hold music of eternity.

Not in finding forms of light,
Not in resting midst the glow -
But in climbing sacred height,
Learning wisdom's depths to know.

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LXXIV. Realization

And then I knew: this city fair
Just reflects glory higher still,
Where truest light burns ever there,
Beyond all forms and earthly will.

In this knowing lay no pain
That here dwelt just reflection's art -
But joy: all paths flow clear and plain
When bearing heaven within the heart.

So layer by layer truth unfolds,
Beyond all words' capacity:
This world, though beautiful it glows,
Just first step to eternity.

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LXXV. Call of Further Path

Beyond heaven's edge where light must cease,
Where forms dissolve in greater shine,
Where final cosmic dream finds peace,
There waits love's dawning pure, divine.

This call rings not as distant sound,
Not mere glimpse of future height -
But heart unlocking boundless round
For spirit's vast divine delight.

In this calling sounds no command,
No forceful voice that bids us go -
But song of that unfading land
Where love's eternal rivers flow.


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LXXVI. Spiritual Ascension

When lower worlds had faded far,
And memory dimmed in morning mist,
In Light's Abode, beneath His star,
I found the sign for which souls list.

This was no loss of former days,
No forgetting of familiar road -
But new sight midst holy rays
That let eternal truth unfold.

And in this rising pure and free
Appeared a vista never known,
Where every step became a key
To heights where truth had always shone.

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LXXVII. Temptation

Beyond the City's blinding light
Where day splits into crystal shards,
Visions like sweet passion's night
Cast nets around with failed regards.

In their dance - earth's desires all,
In their songs - unfulfilled dreams' call,
And I, forgetting paths that fall,
Almost stepped past wisdom's wall.

That tempting was not from without -
Our own shadows, dreams of old
Tried to keep us wrapped about
In earthly beauty's fading hold.


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LXXVIII. Overcoming

But then I spoke the sacred words,
The Power's Password cleaved dark's spell,
And ceased the dance, like morning birds
Chase shadows from dawn's citadel.

In this triumph - fought no war,
No battle 'tween spirit and dark's might -
Just light that dwelt there long before
Dispersed all dreams of lesser light.

Now I knew: shadows hold no power
When sacred flame burns pure within -
All earth's passions of the hour
Fade where truth's dawn has ever been.

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LXXIX. The Narrow Path

Before us lay mysterious way -
A thread-thin path through Being's height.
"How shall I pass?" - but Master's sway
Led forward where truth shines bright.

This path more slim than sword's keen edge,
Yet wider than all worldly space:
Who walks heart-warmed past doubt's dark hedge
Shall find fear's shadows leave no trace.

Here every step - eternity's flight
Where no support in phantom way,
Just faith within heart's pure light
Can guide us through this sacred day.

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LXXX. Sphere of Mind

Here drums sound in time's deep core,
And "Om" floats like worlds' sweet song,
Red lotus blazes evermore
With sacred bases four and strong.

Not sound that mortal ears can hear,
Not fire that earthly eyes perceive -
But higher mind burns crystal clear,
With timeless voices interweave.

Here thought shines pure as mountain stream
Untouched by earthly care or sand -
Each image bears eternal beam
In crystal depths none understand.


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LXXXI. Three Mountains

Like pillars three of light and flame
Rise mountains in the starry height:
Sumeru, Meru, Kailas came
In timeless, pure eternal might.

Each peak - no limit to our way,
But step toward wisdom's deeper core,
Where spirit, climbing day by day,
Finds truth beyond all earthly shore.

In their majestic, holy state
Lies secret of all sacred days:
The higher spirit can relate,
The deeper it perceives truth's ways.

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LXXXII. Judgment of Karma

At mountain's foot - souls' fortress stands,
Where every pilgrim meets their due,
Where weighed are sighs from many lands,
And light not born yet sparkles true.

This judgment brings no harsh decree,
No vengeful fate's relentless hand -
Just mirror where each soul can see
Reflections of their chosen stand.

Here lies no judge to speak our doom,
No executioner waits to strike -
Just light that shows through joy or gloom
What each soul truly does alike.

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LXXXIII. School of Sound

By central mountain's gate flows light
Where wisdom's adepts keep in peace
Eternal knowledge infinite
In sacred depths that never cease.

They teach not with mere word or sign,
But that beyond all earthly speech:
How to become pure sound divine
In symphony none else can reach.

That sound none hear who have not known
Deep silence's primal source within,
Where every syllable has grown
To truth that makes new worlds begin.
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LXXXIV. Law of Karma

Here understood I: not eternal stands
This wheel of births and deaths below -
Only Master's healing hands
Can free us from sins' undertaken woe.

In this knowing - freedom's key:
Not we who forge our earthly chains,
But shadow of unmastered plea
Leads us to worldly joy and pains.

And this eternal, changeless law -
Not chain of cause, not endless bond,
But school where souls shall finally draw
Freedom in pure wisdom fond.

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LXXXV. Ascension

Once more ahead on starlit way,
Where thousand lights burn silently,
Where mind must find its purest ray,
Where each moment flames eternally.

This rising - not mere outer flight,
Not conquest of phantasmal peaks -
But diving deep in sacred light
Where spirit all its truth now seeks.

Here every step - like fiery gate
Where former knowledge melts like snow,
Teaching us the lesson great:
Through letting go, we truly grow.

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LXXXVI. Nature of Mind

Revealed to me: this cosmic mind
Is but the highest Will's pure play.
Thus man amidst thoughts' endless wind
Is more than features shaped from clay.

This mind - not that which measures here,
Counting hours with earthly care -
But That where timeless truth grows clear,
Where all conditions dissolve in air.

Here thought shines pure as mountain stream
That bears no mud, no earthly sand -
Just truth's reflection, thousandfold gleam
In crystal depths we understand.


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LXXXVII. Master's Lesson

"You're near to highest mind's pure might,
But meeting yet must be delayed.
Know thyself - there truth's clear light
In spirit's depths shall be displayed."

These words - no barrier to our way,
No halting of the spirit's flight -
But wisdom: deeper we must sway
To rise toward greater height.

Thus every step toward knowledge high
Means diving deeper in our core,
Where eternity's mysterious sigh
Shows paths unseen before.

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LXXXVIII. Meditation

By sacred waters where flame-flowers bright
Opened chalices in time's deep stream,
I must dissolve my being's might
Till past burden's conquered dream.

This dissolution - not self's death,
Not personality's dark demise -
But finding fullness with each breath,
Where every ray grows more precise.

In silence where world fades away,
Where thoughts melt like morning dew,
Soul finds its true ethereal way,
Becoming crystal-clear and true.

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LXXXIX. The Promise

"I leave you here a little while,"
The Master spoke, "but shall return
When appointed hour's sacred smile
Calls us higher yet to learn."

In this promise - not mere time,
Not future meeting in dream's sphere -
But eternal lesson so sublime
That in our hearts grows ever clear.

In these words no sorrow dwelled,
No shadow of the partings pain -
Just light of love that ever held
The sacred sound that joins again.


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XC. Cosmic Baptism

Having served in mind's domain,
I followed Master once again,
Where dissolves the prison chain
Of forms that reason's pilgrims gain.

This was no common baptism here,
No water's touch, no flame's brief art -
But transformation crystal clear
Where soul's true nature could impart.

In this sacred mystery's way
No ritual performed, no rite -
But what could lead the soul to sway
To source where all the pure unite.

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XCI. To the Lake of Purification

"We enter Higher Mind's vast sphere,
Where sacred waters wait our call.
Eternal wave shall wash all clear,
And primal light embrace us all."

In that lake flows not mere stream
That cleanses outer form's domain -
But light where every star's pure beam
Becomes life-giving holy rain.

That cleansing - not mere outer sign,
Not symbol of path's purity -
But diving deep in dark divine,
From which alone light can break free.

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XCII. Among the Planets

Above us spread through cosmic space
Star-clusters' living fiery glow,
Each light, like music without trace,
Sings symphony of higher flow.

These are not planets earthly eyes
Mark on their astronomical charts -
But spirit spheres where wisdom lies
Of mysteries that surpass all arts.

Here every ray - like living thread
That weaves design beyond all thought,
And in this starry dance is read
The song that all existence wrought.


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XCIII. In the Higher Sphere

Now reached we realms of purity
Where eight-winged lotus high above
Unfurled its petals, sacred, free
In depths of never-fading love.

Within this lotus - not mere grace
Of heaven's flower beautiful and bright,
But creation's mystery we trace,
Pure as first dawn's holy light.

And every petal held within
The fullness of unnumbered worlds,
As if in this celestial spin
Truth's deepest secret now unfurls.

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XCIV. Lake of Immortality

Behold the sacred lake divine
Where three great rivers merge as one:
Here Light and Power with Love combine
To feed immortal waters' run.

That lake - no place in time and space,
No point on cosmic charts defined -
But state where every word finds grace
And love's pure breath transforms the mind.

In these waters melts away
All pain of lives through ages passed,
Opening to sacred day
Where death and bondage cannot last.

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XCV. Purification

"Here sin melts not like autumn leaves,
But washed forever from soul's core,
That eternal nature might perceive
Its first pure state forevermore."

This cleansing - not mere washing clean,
Not ritual with holy wave -
But soul's complete transfiguring scene
Where all past shadows find their grave.

In this dissolving of our base
No death lurks, no fear of void -
Just return to primal grace,
To source that time cannot avoid.


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XCVI. Knowledge of Unity

Then understood I: all that lives,
Friends, foes, strangers, known and new -
All parts of God's great game He gives,
Where all paths lead to Love most true.

That unity - no merging forms,
No loss of living soul's pure light -
But knowing how each path transforms
To one symphony in sacred height.

Like droplets in eternal flame,
Like sparks from one undying fire -
All paths and fates, though each unique name,
Unite in love's supreme desire.

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XCVII. Highest Insight

Here "I" and "not-I" melted swift
In light that knows no boundary line,
Where earthly partings start to shift,
Where thousand worlds share one design.

This is no end of separate way,
No death of individual trait -
But power to hold complete display,
Where each ray shines inviolate.

And in this holy knowing came
The truth of all time's mystery:
We're one in golden dancing flame,
Where each path shines uniquely free.

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XCVIII. At Darkness' Threshold

"Beyond this light waits darkness deep,
Where even sacred sound may fade,
Fear not - I'm near, my son, to keep
You through the void to rhythm's glade."

That darkness - not foe to day's bright queen,
No evil void consuming light -
But mystery that keeps its spring
Beyond all known signs' insight.

This darkness holier than all flames
That lit our former pathways clear -
Here all dissolves to rise again
In higher truth's pure atmosphere.


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XCIX. Secret Knowledge

Here Master shared that mystery
No pen can write, no word can tell -
Just those who've walked through history
To darkness' edge may know it well.

This knowledge - not mind's formula,
No laws in ancient books concealed -
But living string that rings so far
It wakes the eternal once revealed.

No earthly words can capture this,
No images describe that light -
Just quiet touch of sacred bliss
Where mystery transforms to sight.

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C. Before the Void

At entrance where all light must fade,
Where sacred sound itself grows dim,
The Master gave a secret blade
To pierce the boundless void within.

That trace - no map or earthly sign,
No guiding thread through mortal maze -
But heart's remembrance, pure and fine,
That turns dark night to dawn ablaze.

And at this threshold of the deep,
Where known paths end their measured way,
I learned: where fear no more can creep,
Begins true wisdom's brightest day.

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CI. Four Kingdoms

In darkness' depths lie hidden realms
Where souls await their higher court,
Where prisoners of untold helms
Cannot to light make their resort.

Yet in these kingdoms walls end not,
No verdict stands eternally -
Just school where higher change is wrought,
Where all must learn wisdom's key.

Each world here mirrors soul's own face
Reflecting its essential truth,
Where all life's lessons interlace
Into one path of timeless youth.


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CII. The Great Void

Into the void I stepped at last -
Here even flight itself must die,
Here thoughts tear like rags outcast,
And memory, like flame winds try.

No up nor down - just blackness' whirl
That consciousness compresses tight,
And though I cry - voice fails to hurl
As if beyond death's furthest night.

Yet in this starless emptiness,
Where even fear becomes as naught,
Flashed light of unknown loveliness -
That line I'd never seen or sought.

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CIII. Song of Freedom

And Master's voice cut through the dark
Like dawn through night's forgetfulness:
"Blessed who meets this void to mark
Their deathlessness in emptiness.

Who passes through this darkest shade
Not losing love's divine desire,
Shall know that darkness was but made
To raise our souls through testing fire.

Here melts away all we have known,
All that we were in former days,
That phoenix-like, we might be shown
New birth in transformation's blaze."

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CIV. New Light

Sudden parted time's vast veil -
Four songs rang out in unison:
From other worlds this sacred tale
Called upward to unspoken dawn.

This light unlike all light before
That lit the start of all our ways -
Each ray bore eternity's core
Where "next" and "now" dissolve in praise.

This radiance held no glare nor beam
That blinds our temporal gazing here -
But wisdom deeper than night's dream,
Where silence grows than crystal clear.


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CV. Five Cosmoses

Before me opened worlds times five,
Like eggs of gods' celestial light:
Yellow, blue, emerald alive,
Each holding lords and essence bright.

In this vast multiplicity
Lies unity of all first things,
Each world - a note in harmony
That Master first created sings.

Each universe reveals a gate
To wisdom's ever-deepening store,
Like rainbow fragments demonstrate
One light divided evermore.

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CVI. True Vision

Now understood I: worlds below
Just faint reflect true beauty's might,
Like stars on pond's face seem to glow,
Cannot show all celestial light.

This seeing - not mere sharpness gained
By spirit's eyes in higher sphere -
But total union, now attained,
With what heart always held most dear.

Here every glance can pierce beyond
All veils of earth's illusion fair,
Where outer, inner cease their bond,
And truth shines forth beyond compare.

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CVII. The Whirling Region

Behold, before us light now spun
Where "I am That" rang loud as law,
Where every beam and answer won
To one consciousness did draw.

In this light's dance no end appeared,
No center fixed, no margin stood -
Just Creator's radiance cleared,
Where each moment dawns renewed.

Here all revolves in Being's dance,
Yet in the center - changeless star,
Where truth that's older than all trance
Shines constant, near yet ever far.


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CVIII. The Final Passage

"Here Hanzni's tunnel we shall cross,
Beyond, Rukmini's vault glows bright,
Where you'll find vision's perfect gloss
That melts all worlds in single light."

This passage - not mere forward way,
Not just ascending through the beams -
But full transformation's sway
Of consciousness in godly streams.

Here every step - eternity's gate
Where past unites with what's to come,
Where sounds the final verse of fate
That in us always has sung home.

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CIX. Unity

And in this realm of pure Being's heart
I knew the sacred sense complete,
Where "you" and "I" no longer part,
Where time's great circle finds its meet.

This unity - no drowning forms,
No dissolution in the waves -
But finding primal, sacred norms
Where each ray its pure song saves.

Now understood I: no higher way
Than melting in this fullness pure,
Where all worlds can bloom and sway
In primal cleanness ever sure.

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CX. Supreme Understanding

Here mind fell silent... In holy peace
All questions, words did disappear,
And in that radiance's release
I saw what makes all essence clear.

No more exists there "then" or "now",
No splitting into "mine" and "way" -
Just That which was, is, shall be how
All life maintains its truthful stay.

In silence where all sound must fade,
Where thought can cast no shadow's trace,
Soul finds its sacred circling glade
Where timeless turns to present grace.


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CXI. The Divine Mantle

Like flowing stream of dawn's pure light,
Like ocean boundless, without shore,
This sense of unity so bright
Wrapped soul in Creator's mantle more.

This garment - not mere outer dress,
No temporary divine display -
But waking of eternal yes
That was our essence' truth alway.

In this mantle - not mere shine,
No heaven's gold in bright array -
But sacred dew of source divine
That turns all shadows into day.

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CXII. Transfiguration

Now different seemed this entire path:
From first spheres to these holy heights,
Where every moment eternity hath,
Where every breath brings pure delight.

In this new vision of the way
No splitting 'tween 'before' and 'then' -
Just light that must in seed's heart stay
Until it blossoms forth again.

So opened to me from the deep
The truth in rising pureness stirred:
Each step we had to take and keep
Was needed for this light's last word.

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CXIII. Completion

I understood: this lengthy way,
All trials, heights, and depths of night -
Just to return truth's living ray
That dwelt in us from first leaf's light.

This ending marks no final shore,
No closing of our sacred days -
But door to paradise once more
That here within our spirit stays.

Thus closes now the sacred round
Where no beginning, end can be -
Just truth's eternal, startling sound
That wakes in us God's own degree.


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CXIV. New Vision

Beyond the ancient gates of light,
Where Hanzni whirls with waterfall force,
Where Rukmini shines sunset bright,
I gained sight's heavenly resource.

This vision - not mere sharpness grown
In spirit eyes through higher spheres -
But knowing of first days unshown,
Where light from depth of being stirs.

Like lightning through ethereal veil,
This seeing pierced all shadows through,
Where every form must tell its tale
In light forever fresh and new.

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CXV. On Love's Threshold

"Here stands before us," Master said,
"Last vault before Love's kingdom pure,
Where even Light, though holy bred,
Has not become that essence sure."

These words - no limit to our way,
No boundary where our path must cease -
But invitation deep to sway
Where Light and Life bring full release.

Here every moment - timeless gate
Where all we knew must fade and fall,
To hear the song that could not wait
Since cradle's first sacred call.

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CXVI. The White Path

Along thin pathway white and clear
Through crystal mountains' sacred maze,
Where islands in the radiant sphere
Float like dreams of sunny days.

This path - no road to higher ground,
No track through holy matter's reign -
But spirit's inward journey found
Where every step brings wisdom's gain.

And every stone along my way
Glowed as if with inner fire,
As if within this golden ray
Eternal flame revealed desire.


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CXVII. Song of the Flute

From distant peak where light holds sway,
Flows holy flute's enchanting song -
Soul's longing for what's far away,
For love we've sought our whole life long.

In this song - no height's regret,
No mourning for life's fleeting stay -
But call of what in purity yet
Waits wakening by love's pure ray.

This music knows no earthly notes,
No language that our world contains -
Like purest sunrise gently floats,
Opening hearts to heavenly strains.

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CXVIII. City in the Heart of Mountains

There, in mountain's core where dawn
Melts into liquid golden streams,
The city spread its courts upon
The heights where holy beacon gleams.

Here every stone breathes sacred fire,
Each dome shines like a newborn heart,
And time, like mountain streams aspire,
Flows swift to where immortals start.

This city - not mere place of space,
Not form from radiance fashioned fair -
But state where in eternal grace
Soul finds its pristine nature rare.

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CXIX. Farewell to Mirages

How loath was I to leave this land
Where beings made of light and flame
Breathe music's flowing sacred strand,
In streams of truth proclaim their aim.

This yearning - not attachment's chain,
No fear of losing beauty's height -
But foreknowledge of the gain
Beyond all passages of light.

Now understood I: beauty's forms
That once enchanted on the way -
Just reflect that higher norms
Where we must enter, learn to stay.


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CXX. Flight to Higher Spheres

Past darkness where flute's song grew still,
Where blue sky melted into space,
We flew toward higher spheres until
Where deathless spirit finds its place.

That flight - no movement through the air,
No journey through star-emptiness -
But spirit's return to regions where
All worlds shine in their primal bless.

And every wingbeat in that flight
Bore revelation's newer height,
As if within this stream of light
Soul found its ancient birthright.

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CXXI. Sphere of Love

Beyond the dark emerged vast space
Where light shone bright as billion suns,
Where pure spirit's holy grace
Sang hymns of those whose truth had won.

Within this sphere no bounds remain,
No measuring space or counting years -
Just eternal light's pure reign,
Where each moment like first star appears.

Here all paths merge into one stream -
Love's flow transcending every way,
Where each spirit, once alone to seem,
Finds harmony in love's display.

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CXXII. Paradise Gardens

In pearl gardens' golden grass
Flowed rivers of resounding fire,
While nectar from high heights did pass
To vessels light with music's choir.

These gardens - not mere beauty's place,
No realm in far-off holy land -
But inner spring's eternal grace
That blooms in heart's deep sacred strand.

Here every breath holds purity,
Each ray sings love's eternal song,
And heaven's flowers eternally
Open chalices pure and strong.


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CXXIII. Farewell to the Master

"Your path henceforth," my Master said,
"Lies single to the endless gate."
Then dissolved in light that spread,
Leaving face-gleams to contemplate.

This parting - not souls' separation,
No teacher's distance on the way -
But new step in revelation
Where self must find truth's own display.

No greater height could heart attain
Than love that Master did unfold,
Where every moment's holy grain
Becomes source of power untold.

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CXXIV. At Palace Gates

There golden guard in power's crown
Asked who I was, what sought afar.
"I am who James in world was known,
Seeking Love's Lord like morning star."

This dialogue - no simple talk,
No checking right of passage here -
But moment when soul's truth must walk
Through self-made judgment crystal clear.

And in this hour when names were said,
Truth of all my names grew plain:
I am who seeks eternal bread,
By first light forever slain.

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CXXV. Lotus of Light

In Light's hall where living peace
Sounds like song of worlds to come,
Bloomed lotus, pure as spring's release,
Older than all starts and some.

This lotus - not mere beauty's form,
Not perfect shape that eye delights -
But primal, uncreated storm
Of light where all worlds take their flights.

Within this bloom - all Being's tale,
All mysteries of worlds unborn,
As if within emerged that veil
That's older than creation's morn.


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CXXVI. Recognition

And voice from radiant depths profound
Asked once again my earthly name...
That voice familiar beyond sound -
In it my Master's love became.

This knowing - not mere memory's trace,
No echo of known features fair -
But waking of that primal grace
Soul kept from darkness everywhere.

As if all space and time converged
Into one single sacred flower,
Where every moment emerged
Like eternity's pure power.

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CXXVII. Transformation

Before my eyes the flower changed
Its light-filled fiery diadem:
In it my Master's form arranged -
Beginning, end, both merged in them.

This was no common vision's play
In garden's enchanted showing -
But revelation: love's pure way
When finding truth all-knowing.

In this most holy changing scene
Unveiled the secret of all change:
All one in golden light serene,
Form but temporary range.

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CXXVIII. Supreme Revelation

"Not form am I," He spoke in light,
"Yet all worlds dwell within my heart.
Beyond this sphere shines Unknown's might,
Where Universe Masters gain their start."

In these stern, flame-filled words divine
Not just path's mystery lies sealed -
But essence that in sunlit shrine
Must wake when soul at last is healed.

Here every ray - eternal sign
Where mystery unlocks itself:
No "here" or "there," all intertwine
In Truth that lives beyond all else.


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CXXIX. Mystery of Higher Spheres

"Beyond that bound - Unknowable land,
And further still - what has no name.
But what are words? Just Heaven stands,
Where All is Life and Light's pure flame."

In this revealing - not mere map
Of spheres that guide to higher light -
But invitation through the gap
Where mystery transforms to sight.

And in this boundless depth serene,
Where all paths melt in timeless space,
Soul finds in silence yet unseen
That light forever loved its face.

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CXXX. The Guidance

"Return now to your temporal home,
Where many tasks unfinished wait.
Let earthly days in wisdom roam -
Your hour will come, true to its date."

This return - no exile low,
No banishment to realm of care -
But new gift: on earth to show
All revelations gathered there.

Walk and remember: in each day,
In every speck of earthly shores,
Lies hidden eternal fire's ray
That lights us from our deepest cores.

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CXXXI. Final Gates

"But how to walk this lengthy way?"
I asked, my soul in trembling state.
"What seems as long in earth's display
Is but eye's blink at heaven's gate."

In this trembling - not path's fear,
No dread before the void of parts -
But anticipation crystal clear:
In earthly time divine light starts.

And ere this step back to the shade
Of world of visions, forms, and names,
I knew: no return's simply made -
New path midst sunny fields proclaims.


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CXXXII. Last Revelation

"Know paradise surrounds you here
When you perceive: you are pure Soul.
Free spirit rules both far and near,
Where Timeless makes its perfect whole."

This knowledge - not mere wisdom's words,
Not truth that tongue can simply tell -
But waking in earth's shadowed worlds
Of That which words can never spell.

And this light kindled in my breast
Fades not in earthly twilight's scheme -
It teaches heart to newly quest
For eternal in each earthly gleam.

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CXXXIII. Epilogue

Thus ended all my wandering ways
Through spheres of light and music pure.
Yet in my heart still lives the blaze
Of realms that at path's end endure.

This ending marks no boundary line,
No closing of our sacred days -
Just door to paradise divine
That here within our spirit stays.

Now I know: each dawning day
Not merely time in time's swift stream -
But chance to let heaven's lilac sway,
Born in heart from sacred dream.

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CXXXIV. Final Blessing

Though now in worldly whirlpool's might
Soul dwells, performing earthly task,
I know: all temporal bonds so slight
Can't bind immortal soul at last.

This knowing holds no pride's escape
From daily cares and worldly need -
But quiet light that helps reshape
Each moment's meaning, thought and deed.

So may all seekers of the height,
Unafraid of flame-lit roads, proceed
To meet that sacred star's delight
God lit in every soul indeed.


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CXXXV. Final Word

Time of wandering, loss did reign,
Fire purified my searching heart,
Till through hundred spheres of pain,
I found the truth that worlds impart.

All paths that soul has traveled through,
All realms where flame did brightly burn -
Became one sacred avenue
Where eternal I could learn.

And now when circle closes round,
I carry in me sacred light -
The one that turns all space around
Into unfading sunrise bright.

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CXXXVI. Closing Benediction

May this path through ages trod,
Through every world, through joy and pain,
Help those who seek in skies abroad
Their holy, fiery domain.

Let every step on worlds' bright stair
That I have known in wanderings mine,
Show way for seeking souls to dare,
For hearts that thirst for truth divine.

And may that fire be kindled bright
That lit my path through darkness deep -
That each might find their sacred height
Where love becomes the soul to keep.

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CXXXVII. Last Light

In every heart a secret string
Remembers call from starlit height,
In every life a sacred spring
Where eternal flowers invite.

Seek not path in passion's shade,
Nor glory's glitter, worldly fame -
But in dawn's quiet light displayed,
In spark that hidden hearts contain.

And may that love moving all spheres,
Beyond all laws and fundaments,
Reveal to you those sacred seers
That Master kept through all events.


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CXXXVIII. Sacred Testament

Now when path has found its close,
When truth of all beginnings known,
Let me share with seeking souls
How each might find their pathway home.

Fear not darkness on your way,
Nor shrink when meeting pain and strife -
For those who seek Truth's holy ray
Are kept in ever-loving life.

Let the flame that Master showed,
That led me through ten thousand veils,
Light in hearts its blessed code,
Where eternal love prevails.

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CXXXIX. Final Blessing

Where time ceases all its dance,
Where all ages merge as one,
Each pilgrim finds that sacred glance
They've kept since first their path begun.

Let this tale of heights sublime,
Of journey through unnumbered spheres,
Guide those who in darkness climb
Seeking sun-bright hemispheres.

And while love's string still vibrates true,
And while pure light still graces earth,
The eternal spring shall rise anew
That Master's presence brings to birth.

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CXL. Last Benediction

Before thee now, my distant friend,
Who reads these words of sacred lore,
Know this: above each pathway's bend
Light streams from ever-open door.

All paths lead to one single star,
All roads to one enlightening ray,
Where Master in His temple far
Lights eternal candle's sway.

May light of never-dying love
That I have known through wandering years,
Illuminate all paths above,
Become a guiding light for seers.


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CXLI. The Final Chord

In silence of this sacred hour,
Where earthly words must find their end,
I share one truth, like morning flower
That opens to eternal friend:

Each step you take on holy ground,
Each breath that draws you toward the light,
Is blessed by love's eternal round
That guides all seekers through the night.

And may this flame that Masters tend
Through countless ages, countless spheres,
Forever light your path, dear friend,
Until truth's morning dawn appears.

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CXLII. Sacred Farewell

Now as these words must fade away
Like stars before the rising sun,
Remember: there's no final day
For those whose seeking has begun.

In every dawn's first sacred light,
In every twilight's gentle peace,
Dwells echo of that infinite
Where all our journeys find release.

And as I bid farewell to thee,
Dear reader of this sacred tale,
Know this: what's meant for you to see
Will shine beyond all earthly veil.

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Final Prayer

O Master, whose eternal light
Illuminates all earthly ways,
Grant us strength to keep insight
Pure through all our mortal days.

Give us wisdom to discern
Within night's deepest mystery
The sparks of Your eternal burn
In each soul's divinity.

Teach us love that asks no prize,
That leads through worldly shadows far
To grace that in Your wisdom lies,
Beyond our brightest morning star.
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Dear Friends!

And so we come to the end of our remarkable journey through the pages of the poem "The Soul's Pilgrimage."

As someone who has walked the path of Sant Mat for 27 years, I was deeply moved by this work 27 years ago, and it inspired me to create my own poetic response.

For those who have become interested in this subject and would like to explore the original work, I am happy to share the Russian translation of "James's Pilgrimage" in electronic format.

If you have any questions about the path of Sant Mat or wish to share your impressions of what you've read, I would welcome such dialogue.

With love and blessings,
Konstantin Sandalov (KoSan)