LEAF AND TENDRIL 



And I may add, nor any more creation than there 

 is now, nor any more miracles, or glories, or won- 

 ders, or immortality, or judgment days, than there 

 are now. And we shall never be nearer God and 

 spiritual and transcendent things than we are now. 

 The babe in its mother's womb is not nearer its 

 mother than we are to the invisible sustaining and 

 mothering powers of the universe, and to its spirit- 

 ual entities, every moment of our lives. 



The doors and windows of the universe are all 

 open; the screens are all transparent. We are not 

 barred op shut off; there is nothing foreign or 

 unlike ; we find our own in the stars as in the 

 ground underfoot; this clod may become a man; 

 yon shooting star may help redden his blood. 



Whatever is upon the earth is of the earth; it 

 came out of the divine soil, beamed upon by the 

 fructifying heavens, the soul of man not less than 

 his body. 



I never see the spring flowers rising from the 

 mould, or the pond-lilies born of the black ooze, 

 that matter does not become transparent and reveal 

 to me the working of the same celestial powers 

 that fashioned the first man from the common 

 dust. 



Man's mind is no more a stranger to the earth 



than is his body. Is not the clod wise ? Is not the 



chemistry underfoot intelligent? Do not the roots 



of the trees find their way ? Do not the birds know 



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