It matters not what we may choose to name
The element which we now contemplate;
It is the all-pervading vital flame
And moulding force that from the union came
Of Love and Wisdom, which forever mate;
If we so will, we may suppose it Mind,
And all things manifold and correlate
So many thoughts projected and defined
For use and contemplation of our human kind.
31.
So far as we can see, the moving force
Comes through and issues from a Human Pair
Who lived long ages since, and in the course
Of Evolution, have become the source
Of our vast universe, and to it are
As parents to their children, by a law
Of higher, broader scope, that may compare
With procreation here, but which may draw
From deeper source than even Gods themselves e'er saw.
32.
Man is the aim and end of what exists;
As forces at his earthly birth prepare
For him the needed food, and he subsists
Within the womb as kindly Nature lists,
So Love and Wisdom, present everywhere,
Provide the suns and earths for his abode
While, all unconscious, he is unaware
Of his condition, or whence leads the road
That he henceforth must tread, as others erst have trode.
33.
What Love suggests Wisdom is prone to do,
As far as laws eternal will permit;
Pervading all and ever working to
Whatever object seen they can pursue,
They find the highest form and type most fit
In Man and Woman, whom they ever aim
To reproduce and then unfold to sit
In higher realms, with Love and Light aflame,
Whence they survey new fields and those through which they came.
34.
The emanations from the Parent Pair
At first take forms of very low degree,
According to conditions, to prepare
The way for higher forms, which ever are
Ascending toward the human, as we see;
The motion of the atom designates
Condition and its due activity;
Sub-union of the elements creates
Varieties of forms and motions, and of states.