MORE FRAGMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY

 

 

HERE RE A FEW MORE OF MY POEMS BASED ON THE CHAPTER HEADINGS IN

THE BASIC TEACHINGS OF THE GREAT PHILOSPHERS

 

 

SOUL AND IMMORTALITY

 

Soul

Is the essence of life

The Thing-in-itself

The Infinite

The Ultimate.

 

Soul

Is like a handful of salt

Sprinkled into water

It cannot be identified

It cannot be separated

Yet it is there.

 

Soul

Passes through many forms

Its arrival is birth

Its departure is death

Its continuance is eternal

 

Seek it

And you find nothing

Deny it

And you are nothing

 

 

 

THE NATURE OF GOD

 

God

Is the face of the heavens

Blended

With the face in the mirror

 

God

Is the Life Force

The patterns of eternity

The essence that men call soul

The Buddhist Wheel

The Mystic Way

The Aspects of One

That are particles of the Whole

 

God

Is the face in the mirror

Blended

With the face in the stars

 

To simplify

GOD IS

 

 

 

DESTINY

 

Life is a river

That flows from the stream of birth

To the sea of death.

 

A man may pause on its sunny banks

to idle, and inhale the wild-sweet flowers

with slow-drawn breath.

 

Or he can fight its rapids

The tide race of its swirling currents

Kicking his feet through the dragging reeds.

 

He can explore its many side streams

Diverting from the left bank to the right

But to progress he can only follow.

Where the river leads.

 

The course is mapped out

Only the duration of the voyage

And the courage with which it is made

Are left to man.

 

All else is Kismet.