The Star in the West

318 THE STAR IN THE WEST And again in the Epilogue to vol . ii . Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter , lake -reflected spectre ; like , rise up in mist to sun ; Sun , dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master's work is done . Nectar perfume gently stealing , masterful and sweet and strong , Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals , and be altogether lost !! The ecstasy of the saints and mystics , is , this enter ing into the kingdom of God which is within them . ” Hugo de Saint -Victor says : “ The soul , dead to the world and to itself , sleeps in bliss , and yields itself utterly to the kisses of the spouse , in absolute repose Door was opened to him .-Cited in E. Fitzgerald's Salámán and Absál . As do the following lines of Jámi : Gaze , till Gazing out of Gazing Grew a BEING Her I gaze on , SHE and I no more, but in One Undivided Being blended. All that is not one must ever Suffer with the Wound of Absence ; And whoever in Love's City Enters , finds but Room for one , And but in ONENESS Union . And those of Feridoddin Attar : Joy ! joy ! no mortal thought can fathom me . I am the merchant and the pearl at once . Lo , time and space lie crouching at my feet . Joy ! joy ! when I would revel in a rapture , I plunge into myself and all things know . 1 Epilogue , vol . ii, p . 283 . 2 I. N. R. I.