He who lusts after nothing has all things ; To be content with what one has is the greatest and surest riches.
Is it that the nature of all is so constituted that they see and judge the nature of other men better than their own?
Consequence of the knowledge of self existent soul;
The happy man who ones has learned to know.
The self existent soul, from passions pure,
serene undying ever young, secure
from all the change that other natures show
Whose full perfection other defects abates
Whom pure essential good for ever states
That men alone no longer dreading death
With tranquil joy resigns his vital breath.
No hands has he nor feet nor eyes or ears
and yet he grasps and moves and sees and hears
He all things knows, Himself unknown to all
Him men the great primeval spirit call.
From Greek and Roman mythology. (how similar to ours){ who has copied whom}[ or is it the universal law. We are but one small speck in the universal design]
Of all immortals grandest many named
Almighty lord of nature ruling all
By law, great Zeus all hail, on thee we call
Thee mortal men may all invoke unblamed.
For from thine own high self we claim to spring
Of creatures all that people earth or air
We men alone thy reason impress bear
Thy greatness therefore will I ever sing.
Revolving round the earth the whole array
Of stars obeys that ever present force
Whereby across the sky thou lead'st its course
And willing bows to thy resistless sway
For such an instrument to quell revolt
Thou wielde'st lord, in thine unconquered hands
As swift response compels to thy commands
The two edged fiery living thunder bolt.
All nature quakes where its blows alight
So dost thou Zeus obtain thy law which all.
The heavenly lights pervades, both great and small
So great a king art thou of sovereign might
Apart from thee no work, great potentate
Is done on earth in yonder heavenly sphere
Or deep in oceans caverns far or near
But what the bad in folly perpetrate
Thou knowe'st how to make the crooked straight
From chaos dire can'st order fair create
to thee all dear the things which mortals hate.
For so hast thou things good and ill combined
That all together one grand system make
To rule reduced by thy controlling mind
But evil men this wondrous order break
And neither see nor hear thy law divine
which well and wisely kept, had made them blest
but seeking fancied good they never rest
of envied fame or sordid gain in quest
or else to ease and joy their lives resign
yet disappointed all at last obtain
the dark reverse of what they hoped to gain.
But all bestowing Father wrapt in clouds
From whose dark depths the dazzling lightning glance
Sweep far away that mournful ignorance
whose gloom the souls of mortals now enshrouds.
And grant them knowledge, yea vouchsafe that they
May share that wisdom wherein thou confid'st
Whilst thou aright the course of nature guidst
That honoured so by thee, we men may pray
thee back with honour, singing aye with awe
Thy deeds as men beseems : - from age to age
No nobler task can men or gods engage
that this with joy to hymn the universal law.
to be continued.
