The sacred anthology - 1889 Author:Moncure Daniel Conway Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THEISM. Xcvul God. Moses cried, ' Where, 0 Lord, shall I find thee ?' Grod said, 'Know that when thou hast sought, thou hast already found me.' One aske... more »d a Bedouin, 'How knowest thou that God exists ?' He answered, ' Does the dawn then need a torch to be seen ?' The Methnevi says, ' Supreme Being soars above thought and imagination : we are lost when we would comprehend or even suspect that which he is. How vain then to seek words worthy of that being 1 Let it suffice us to adore in reverent silence.' xcix. The Supreme Soul. Soul of the Soul I Neither thought nor reason comprehend thy essence, and no one knows thy attributes. Souls have no idea of thy being. The prophets themselves sink in the dust of thy road. Although intellect exists by thee, has it yet ever found the path of thy existence ? 0 thou who art in the interior and in the exterior of the soul! thou art and thou art not that which I say. In thy presence reason grows dizzy ; it loses the thread that would direct it in thy way. I perceive clearly the universe in thee, and yet discover thee not in the world. All beings are marked with thy impress, but thyself hast no impress visible; thou reservest the secret of thine existence. Hymn to Brahma. Thanks to thee, 0 Lord, whose form is unknown, who art the soul of all beings ! Whose purposes are not understood, Whose appellations are not known, Whose name cannot be spoken 1 Thou art unchangeable, and nothing in this world exists independently of thee. Thou, in the form of sunbeams, preservest the world : The word True denotes thy form. Thanks to thee whose heart is full of wisdom, The visible, the invisible 1 Delusion. It is the ignorant who take for a God that which is not so. Men will boast of consciousness, and of their righ...« less