Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
He came into a magic crystal air And found a life that lived not by the flesh, A light that made visible immaterial things. ||28.1|| A fine degree in wonder’s hierarchy, The kingdom of subtle Matter’s faery craft Outlined against a sky of vivid hues, Leaping out of a splendour-trance and haze, The wizard revelation of its front. ||28.2||
This brilliant roof of our descending plane, Intercepting the free boon of heaven’s air, Admits small inrushes of a mighty breath Or fragrant circuits through gold lattices;... And bright dews drip from the Immortal’s sky. ||28.9||
In rooms of the young divinity of power And early play of the eternal Child The embodiments of his outwinging thoughts Laved in a bright everlasting wonder’s tints And lulled by whispers of that lucid air Take dream-hued rest like birds on timeless trees Before they dive to float on earth-time’s sea. ||28.12||
This wonder-world with all its radiant boon Of vision and inviolated happiness, Only for expression cares and perfect form;... It lends beauty to the terror of the gulfs And fascinating eyes to perilous Gods, Invests with grace the demon and the snake. ||28.26||
A heaven of creative truths above, A cosmos of harmonious dreams between, A chaos of dissolving forms below, It plunges lost in our inconscient base. ||28.31|| Out of its fall our denser Matter came. ||28.32||
This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose, From her blind unwilling substance must emerge A beauty that belongs to happier spheres. ||29.6||
In us too the intuitive Fire can burn; An agent Light, it is coiled in our folded hearts, On the celestial levels is its home: Descending, it can bring those heavens here. ||30.36||
Admired for the bright finality of its lines A blue horizon limited the soul; ||31.13||
Life in its boundaries lingered satisfied ||31.13|| The beautiful body of a soul at ease, Like one who laughs in sweet and sunlit groves, Childlike she swung in her gold cradle of joy. ||31.16||
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