O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovely

O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovelyYour Presence is manifest, not in mystery.My dream brought me to the Temple of GodAnd I praised its delightful servants,And the burnt offering, its meal and libationWhich rose up in great pillars of smoke.I delighted in the...

The Creation of Elohim

In the BeginningWhen the King conceived ordainingHe engraved engravings in the luster on high.A blinding spark flashedwithin the Concealed of the Concealedfrom the mystery of the Infinite,a cluster of vapor in formlessness,set in a ring,not white, not black, not red,...

The Celestial Fire

Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a blazing fire –a fire that devours fire;a fire that burns in things dry and moist;a fire that glows amid snow and ice;a fire that is like a crouching lion;a fire that reveals itself in many forms;a fire that is, and...

Thou Livest

Thou livest, but not from determined time or known epoch.Thou livest, but not with soul or breath, for Thou art soul of the soul.Thou livest, but not as the life of man that is like vanity, its end in moths and worms.Thou livest, and whoever attains Thy secret will...

Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World)

(circle 10)so are the letters in their true essentials & when joined to people & to books that carry them are made intelligible as wholes to world & public: forms that the lowly asses carry though their existence is eternal: so then manchild you be...

God Pursues Me Everywhere

God pursues me everywhere,Enmeshes me in glances,And blinds my sightless back like flaming sun.God, like a forest dense, pursues me.My lips are ever tender, mute, so amazed,So like a child lost in an ancient sacred grove.God pursues me like a silent shudder.I wish for...