Long Ago.”
Emerson, who saw further into the world of nature than any poet of our race, gives us this:
“And as through dreams in watches of the night,
So through all creatures in their form and ways,
Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,
Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense,
Inviting to new knowledge, one with old.”
The hermetic maxim, “As above so below,” sends us indeed to nature for initiation, and the Gita follows up this nail with a hammer by saying: “The man, O Arjoona, who, from what passeth in his own breast, whether it be pain or pleasure, beholdeth the same in others, is esteemed a supreme Yogi.” Analogy, Harmony, Unity, these are the words traced over and over for us, the shining rays of the one Law. These are the thoughts in which the poets delight. Emerson speaks again with still clearer voice:
“Brother, sweeter is the Law
Than all the grace Love ever saw,