Gain the Elixir, or behold the Grail.

I seek the mystery of Life and Time,

The Key of all that is not and that is,

And that which—climb, imagination! climb!—

Transcends them both—the mystical abyss

Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss.

So have I journeyed—like a fool! Ah, well!

Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past!

But—am I further forward? Who can tell?

God is the Complex as the Protoplast: