The Dervishes: Or, Oriental SpiritualismLippincott, 1868 - 415 oldal |
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14. oldal - A million torches lighted by thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own thy power, accomplish thy command. All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
14. oldal - midst immensity, Still I am something, fashioned by thy hand! I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth — On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land! The chain of being is complete in me; — In me is matter's last gradation lost, And the next step is spirit — Deity!
15. oldal - O visions blest ! Though worthless our conceptions all of Thee, Yet shall Thy shadowed image fill our breast, And waft its homage to Thy Deity. God ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar ; Thus seek Thy presence — Being wise and good! Midst Thy vast works admire, obey, adore ; And when the tongue is eloquent no more, The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude.
11. oldal - Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
14. oldal - Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath ! Thou the beginning with the end hast bound, And beautifully mingled life and death ! As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze, So suns are born, so worlds spring forth from Thee; And as the spangles in the sunny rays Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry Of heaven's bright army glitters in Thy praise.
13. oldal - O THOU ETERNAL ONE ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy ! all motion guide ; Unchanged through Time's all-devastating flight, Thou only God ! There is no God beside. Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! Whom none can comprehend, and none explore...
150. oldal - I testify there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah!
13. oldal - Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround ; Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath ! Thou the beginning with the end...
8. oldal - In the name of the most merciful God. Say, God is one God ; the eternal God; he begetteth not, neither is he begotten : and there is not any one like unto him.
14. oldal - Yes! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.