All Pervading Consciousness

And as His Essence all the world pervades Naught in Creation is, save this alone. Upon the waters has He fixed His Throne, This earth suspended in the starry space, Yet what are seas and what is air? For all Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth, Did He not permeate them, were but names; Know then, that both this visible world and that Which unseen is, alike are God Himself, Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God. And yet, alas! by how few is He seen, Blind are men's eyes, though all resplendent shines The world by Deity's own light illumined, 0 Thou whom man perceiveth not, although To him Thou deignest to make known Thyself; Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, 0 soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!