“Jove strikes the Titans down. Not when they set about their mountain piling, but when one stone more would complete the work.”[151]
Then with toil and pain he rises and cons the chart once more. Beloved Brothers!—and there is nowhere one so lost, so estranged, so low or so great whom this name does not call—he will have received these blows to a benign purpose, if their teachings shall roll away a single stone from your upward path.
J——.
Poetical Occultism.
SOME ROUGH STUDIES OF THE OCCULT LEANINGS OF THE POETS.
III.
Many will find in Whitman, the fullest measure of mystic truths, plainly and significantly stated, to be met with in any modern poet. For instance, a recognition of the reality of Reincarnation, and of its necessity, constantly recurs in his poems. Passages like these attest it: “Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years.” Births have brought us richness and variety, and other births have brought us richness and variety. “And as to you Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (no doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)” In contemplating an idiot he muses:
“And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,