THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
These states have been sufficiently, and much better, de-
scribed in Book 4. q. v.
80. And now thy Self is lostin SELF, Thyself unto THY-
SELF, merged in THAT SELF from which thou first
didst radiate.
In this verse is given a hint of the underlying philosophi-
cal theory of the Cosmos. See Liber CXI for a full and
proper account of this.
81. Where is thy individuality, Lanoo, where the Lanoo
himself? It is the spark lost in the fire, the drop within the
ocean, the ever-present ray become the ALL and the eternal
radiance.
Again principally poetical. The man is conceived as a
mere accretion about his ‘Dwarf-Self,’ and he is now wholly
absorbed therein. For IT is also ALL, being of the Body of
Nuith.
82. And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness,
the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the
Sound in the Light.
Important, as indicating the attainment of a mystical
state, in which you are not only involved in an action, but
apart fromit. There is a higher state described in the Bha-
gavad Gita. “I who am all, and made it all, abide its sepa-
rate Lord.”
83. Thou art acquainted with the five impediments, O
blessed one. Thou art their conqueror, the Master of the
sixth, deliverer of the four modes of Truth. The light that
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