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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480889" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gnothi Seauton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou canst bear<br>Strong meat of simple truth<br>If thou durst my words compare<br>With what thou thinkest in my soul’s free youth,<br>Then take this fact unto thy soul,-----<br>God dwells in thee.<br>It is no metaphor nor parable,<br>It is unknown to thousands, and to thee;<br>Yet there is God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is in thy world,<br>But thy world knows him not.<br>He is the mighty Heart<br>From which life’s varied pulses part.<br>Clouded and shrouded there doth sit<br>The Infinite<br>Embosomed in a man;<br>And thou art stranger to thy guest<br>And know’st not what thou doth invest.<br>The clouds that veil his life within<br>Are thy thick woven webs of sin,<br>Which his glory struggling through<br>Darkens to thine evil hue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then bear thyself, O man!<br>Up to the scale and compass of thy guest;<br>Soul of thy soul.<br>Be great as doth beseem<br>The ambassador who bears<br>The royal presence where he goes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give up to thy soul-----<br>Let it have its way-----<br>It is, I tell thee, God himself,<br>The selfsame One that rules the Whole,<br>Tho’ he speaks thro’ thee with a stifled voice,<br>And looks through thee, shorn of his beams.<br>But if thou listen to his voice,<br>If thou obey the royal thought,<br>It will grow clearer to thine ear,<br>More glorious to thine eye.<br>The clouds will burst that veil him now<br>And thou shalt see the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore be great,<br>Not proud,-----too great to be proud.<br>Let not thine eyes rove,<br>Peep not in corners; let thine eyes<br>Look straight before thee, as befits<br>The simplicity of Power.<br>And in thy closet carry state;<br>Filled with light, walk therein;<br>And, as a king<br>Would do no treason to his own empire,<br>So do not thou to thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the reason why thou dost recognize<br>Things now first revealed,<br>Because in thee resides<br>The Spirit that lives in all;<br>And thou canst learn the laws of nature<br>Because its author is latent in thy breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore, O happy youth,<br>Happy if thou dost know and love this truth,<br>Thou art unto thyself a law,<br>And since the soul of things is in thee,<br>Thou needest nothing out of thee.<br>The law, the gospel, and the Providence,<br>Heaven, Hell, the Judgement, and the stores<br>Immeasurable of Truth and Good,<br>All these thou must find<br>Within thy single mind,<br>Or never find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art the law;<br>The gospel has no revelation<br>Of peace and hope until there is response<br>From the deep chambers of thy mind thereto,-----<br>The rest is straw.<br>It can reveal no truth unknown before.<br>The Providence<br>Thou art thyself that doth dispense<br>Wealth to thy work, want to thy sloth,<br>Glory to goodness, to neglect, the moth.<br>Thou sow’st the wind, the whirlwind reapest,<br>Thou payest the wages<br>Of thy own work, through all ages.<br>The almighty energy within<br>Crowneth virtue, curseth sin.<br>Virtue sees by its own light;<br>Stumbleth sin in self-made night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who approves thee doing right?<br>God in thee.<br>Who condemns thee doing wrong?<br>God in thee.<br>Who punishes thine evil deed?<br>God in thee.<br>What is thine evil meed?<br>Thy worse mind, with error blind<br>And more prone to evil<br>That is, the greater hiding of the God within:<br>The loss of peace<br>The terrible displeasure of this inmate<br>And next the consequence<br>More faintly as more distant wro’t<br>Upon our outward fortunes<br>Which decay with vice<br>With Virtue rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">X</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The selfsame God<br>By the same law<br>Makes the souls of angels glad<br>And the souls of devils sad<br>See<br>There is nothing else but God<br>Where e'er I look<br>All things hasten back to him<br>Light is but his shadow dim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I ask wealth or power of God, who gave<br>An image of himself to be my soul?<br>As well might swilling ocean ask a wave,<br>Or the starred firmament a dying coal,-----<br>For that which is in me lives in the whole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a><div class=q>
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If thou canst bear
Strong meat of simple truth
If thou durst my words compare
With what thou thinkest in my soul’s free youth,
Then take this fact unto thy soul,-----
God dwells in thee.
It is no metaphor nor parable,
It is unknown to thousan..."></div>
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