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"Silence the angry man with
compassion.
Silence the ill natured man with kindness.
Silence
the miser with generosity.
Silence the liar
with truth."
Siddhartha
Gautama
"To our great surprise,
the internal mental process
was perfectly
noiseless."
Carlos Brody
Ode to Paradise
Then saw I clearly how each spot in
heav'n
Is Paradise, though with like gracious dew
The supreme virtue
show'r not over all.
Contemplate here the wonder I unfold.
The nature with its
Maker thus conjoin'd,
forged first was blameless, pure and good;
But
through itself alone was driven forth
From Paradise, because it had
eschew'd
The Way of Truth and
Life, to evil turn'd.
Your nature, which entirely in its seed
Trangress'd, from these
distinctions fell, no less
Than from its state in Paradise.
"Long as the joy of Paradise shall
last,
Our love shall
shine around that raiment,
bright,
As
fervent; fervent, as in vision blest;
And that as far in blessedness
exceeding,
As it hath grave beyond its virtue great.
Our shape, regarmented with
glorious weeds
Of saintly flesh, must, being thus entire,
Show yet
more gracious. Therefore shall increase,
Whate'er of light, gratuitous,
imparts
The Supreme Good; light, ministering aid,
The better disclose
his glory: whence
The vision needs increasing, much increase
The
fervour, which it kindles; and that too
The ray, that comes from it. But
as the greed
Which gives out flame, yet it its whiteness shines
More
lively than that, and so preserves
Its proper semblance; thus this
circling sphere
Of splendour, shall to view less radiant seem,
Than
shall our fleshly robe, which yonder earth
Now covers. Nor will such
excess of light
O'erpower us, in corporeal organs made
Firm, and
susceptible of all delight."
"O thou,
my blood!
O most exceeding grace
divine! to whom,
As now to thee, hath twice
the heav'nly gate
Been e'er unclos'd?" so spake the light; whence I
Turn'd me toward him;
then unto my dame
My sight directed, and on either side
Amazement
waited me; for in her eyes
Was lighted such a smile, I thought that mine
Had div'd unto the bottom
of my grace
And of my bliss in Paradise. Forthwith
To hearing and
to sight grateful alike,
The spirit to his poem added things
I
understood not, so profound
he spake;
Yet not of choice but
through necessity
Mysterious; for his high
conception scar'd
Beyond the mark of mortals. When the flight
Of holy
transport had so spent its rage,
That nearer to the level of our thought
The speech descended, the first sounds I heard
Were, "Best he thou,
Triunal Deity!
At the sweet sounds of
comfort straight I turn'd;
And, in the saintly eyes what compassion was
seen,
I leave in silence here: nor through distrust
Of my words only,
but that to such bliss
The
mind remounts not without aid. Thus much
Yet may I speak; that, as I
gaz'd on her,
Affection found no room for other wish.
While the
everlasting
pleasure, that did full
On
Mercedes shine, with second
view
From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul
Contented;
vanquishing me with a beam
Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and
list.
These eyes are not thy only Paradise."
"I am not worthy, of my
own desert,
That thou shouldst answer me; but for her sake,
Who hath
vouchsaf'd my asking, spirit blest!
That in thy joy art shrouded! say the
cause,
Which bringeth thee so near: and wherefore, say,
Doth
the sweet symphony of
Paradise
Keep silence here, pervading with such sounds
Of rapt
devotion ev'ry lower sphere?"
I was as one, when a forgotten
dream
Doth come across him, and he strives in vain
To shape it in his
fantasy again,
Whenas that gracious
boon was proffer'd me,
Which never may be cancel'd from the book,
Wherein the past is written. Now were all
Those tongues
to sound, that have on sweetest milk
Of Polyhymnia and her sisters fed
And fatten'd, not with all their help to boot,
Unto the thousandth
parcel of the truth,
My song might shadow forth that saintly smile,
flow merely in her saintly looks it wrought.
And with such figuring of
Paradise
The sacred strain must leap, like one, that meets
A sudden
interruption to his road.
"Glory to the Father, to
the Son,
And to the
Holy Spirit," rang aloud
Throughout all Paradise, that with the song
My spirit reel'd, so
passing sweet the strain:
And what I saw was equal ecstasy;
One universal smile it seem'd of
all things,
Joy past
compare, gladness
unutterable,
Imperishable life of peace and compassion,
Exhaustless riches and unmeasur'd bliss.
Before mine eyes stood the four
torches lit;
And that, which first had come, began to wax
In
brightness, and in semblance such became,
As Jove might be, if he and Mars
were birds,
And interchang'd their plumes.
Silence
ensued.
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