Each soul that’s born a zero is compared to Me!

Their love is but the froth; My love, the sea of love!

Froth comes and goes; the ocean none remove.

More I may say. For, in this earthly oyster-shell

There’s naught but froth of froth, of froth of froth to tell!’“435

The Lord thus spake;—the Lord, that sea of purity!—

He spake not by conjecture;—truth’s own entity!

What I here state is said in love’s humility.

The Lord is He to whom I fly,—sole Deity!

If thou wouldst put to test what I have here set forth,