The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #24 November 2014 | Page 20

Before me arose a great throne of
darkness,
veiled on it sat a figure of night.
Darker than darkness sat the great
figure,
dark with a darkness not of the night.
Before it then paused the Master,
speaking
The Word that brings about Life,
saying,
"Oh, master of darkness,
guide of the way from Life unto Life,
before thee I bring a Sun of the
morning.
Touch him not ever with the power of
night.
Call not his flame to the darkness of
night.
Know him and see him,
one of our brothers,
lifted from darkness into the Light.
Release thou his flame from its
bondage,
free let it flame through the darkness
of night."
Raised then the hand of the figure,
forth came a flame that grew clear
and bright.
Rolled back swiftly the curtain of
darkness,
unveiled the Hall from the darkness of
night.
Then grew in the great space before
me,
flame after flame, from the veil of the
night.
Uncounted millions leaped they before
me,
some flaming forth as flowers of fire.

Others there were that shed a dim
radiance,
flowing but faintly from out of the
night.
Some there were that faded swiftly;
others that grew from a small spark of
light.

Each surrounded by its dim veil of
darkness,
yet flaming with light that could never
be quenched.
Coming and going like fireflies in
springtime,
filled they with space with Light and
with Life.
Then spoke a voice, mighty and
solemn, saying:
"These are lights that are souls among
men,
growing and fading, existing forever,
changing yet living, through death
into life.
When they have bloomed into flower,
reached the zenith of growth in their
life,
swiftly then send I my veil of darkness,
shrouding and changing to new forms
of life.
Steadily upward throughout the ages,
growing,
expanding into yet another flame,
lighting the darkness with yet greater
power,
quenched yet unquenched by the veil
of the night.