The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #24 November 2014 | Page 27

led to the stars. Year after year, I
sought after wisdom, seeking new
knowledge, following the way,
until at last my SOUL, in great travail,
broke from its bondage and bounded
away.
Free was I from the bondage of earthmen. Free from the body, I flashed
through the night. Unlocked at last for
me was the star-space. Free was I
from the bondage of night. Now to the
end of space sought I wisdom, far
beyond knowledge of finite man.
Far into space, my SOUL traveled
freely into infinity's circle of light.
Strange, beyond knowledge, were
some of the planets, great and
gigantic, beyond dreams of men.
Yet found I Law, in all of its beauty,
working through and among them as
here among men.
Flashed forth my soul through
infinity's beauty, far through space
I flew with my thoughts.
Rested I there on a planet of beauty.
Strains of harmony filled all the air.
Shapes there were, moving in Order,
great and majestic as stars in the
night; mounting in harmony, ordered
equilibrium, symbols of the Cosmic,
like unto Law.
Many the stars I passed in my journey,
many the races of men on their
worlds; some reaching high as stars of
the morning, some falling low in the
blackness of night.
Each and all of them struggling
upward, gaining the heights and
plumbing the depths,
moving at times in realms of
brightness,
living through darkness, gaining the
Light.

Know, O man, that Light is thine
heritage.
Know that darkness is only a veil.
Sealed in thine heart is brightness
eternal,
waiting the moment of freedom to
conquer,
waiting to rend the veil of the night.
Some I found who had conquered the
ether.
Free of space were they while yet they
were men.
Using the force that is the foundation
of ALL things,
far in space constructed they a planet,
drawn by the force that flows through
the ALL;
condensing, coalescing the ether into
forms,
that grew as they willed.
Outstripping in science, they, all of the
races,
mighty in wisdom, sons of the stars.
Long time I paused, watching their
wisdom.
Saw them create from out of the ether
cities
gigantic of rose and gold.
Formed forth from the primal
element,
base of all matter, the ether far flung.
Far in the past, they had conquered
the ether,
freed themselves from the bondage of
toil;
formed in their mind only a picture
and swiftly
created, it grew.
Forth then, my soul sped, throughout
the Cosmos,
seeing ever, new things and old;
learning that man is truly space-born,
a Sun of the Sun,