The Power that informs man’s soul can cleave the moon.[197]
If man’s heart but untie the mouth of mystery’s sack,
His soul soon soars aloft beyond the starry track.
If heaven’s mystery divulged should, ’haps, become,
The whole world ’twould burn up, as fire doth wood consume.”
Let’s contemplate the acts of God, the deeds of men;
Know, men’s deeds do exist. This truth is patent, then.110
If men’s deeds be not in this nether world of ours,
Say not thou unto others: “Why these deeds of yours?”
God’s act it is through which those deeds of ours arise;