1 82 O. n the Mystical Poetry of 



" membrance of its maker : they are inebriated with the melody of amor- 

 " ous complaints - they remember their beloved, and refign to him both 

 " this life and the next. Through remembrance of God, they fhim all 

 " mankind : they are fo enamoured of the cup-bearer, that they fpiil the 

 '*' wine from the cup. No panacea can heal them, for no mortal can be ap- 

 " prized of their malady j fo loudly has rung in .their ears, from eternity 

 " without beginning, the divine word alefi y with bth^ the tumultuous ex- 

 41 clamation of all {pint's* They are a feci fully employed, but fitting in 

 " .retirement; their feet are of earth, but their breath is a flame: with a 

 c( fingle yell they could rend a mountain from its bafe ; with a fingle cry 

 " they could throw a city into confufion: like wind, they are concealed 

 " and move nimbly ; like ilone, they are filent, yet repeat God's prafes. 

 " At early dawn their tears flow focopioufly as to WHih from their eves the 

 " black powder of fleep : though the courfer of their fancy ran fo A* if ay all 

 " night, yet the morning finds them left behind in diforder : night and day 

 " are they plunged in an ocean of ardent defire, till they are unable, through 

 <{ aitonifbment, to diilinguifh night from day. So enraptured are they 

 " with the beauty of Him, who decorated the human form, that with the 

 " beauty of the form itfelf they have no concern; and, if ever they behold 

 st a beautiful Ihape, they fee in it the my fiery of God's work. 



*' The wife take not the huik. in exchange for the kernel; and he, who 

 iC makes that choice, has no underftanding. He only has drank the pure 

 " wine of unity, who has forgotten, by remembering God, all things elfe 

 " io both worlds. 



Let us return to the Hindus, among whom we new find the fame emblema« 

 tical theology, which Pythagoras admired and adopted. The loves ofCmsHNA 





