A Dim Consciousness Of Infinite Mystery And

The Sources Of Our Knowledge Of The Kabalistic Doctrines Are The Books Of Yetzirah And Zohar, The Former Drawn Up In The Second Century, And The Latter A Little Later; But They Contain Materials Much Older Than Themselves...in Them, As In The Teachings Of Zoroaster, Everything That Exists Emanates From A Source Of Infinite Light.

We Live Our Little Life; But Heaven Is Above Us And All Around And Close To Us; And Eternity Is Before Us And Behind Us; And Suns And Stars Are Silent Witnesses And Watchers Over Us. We Are Enfolded By Infinity.

The Spoken Discourse May Roll On Strongly As The Great Tidal Wave; But, Like The Wave, It Dies At Last Feebly On The Sands. It Is Heard By Few, Remembered By Still Fewer, And Fades Away, Like An Echo In The Mountains, Leaving No Token Of Power. It Is The Written Human Speech, That Gave Power And Permanence To Human Thought.

Everything Actual Must Also First Have Been Possible, Before Having Actual Existence.

If The Soul Sees, After Death , What Passes On This Earth , And Watches Over The Welfare Of Those It Loves, Then Must Its Greatest Happiness Consist In Seeing The Current Of Its Beneficent Influences Widening Out From Age To Age, As Rivulets Widen Into Rivers, And Aiding To Shape The Destinies Of Individuals, Families, States, The World; And Its Bitterest Punishment, In Seeing Its Evil Influences Causing Mischief And Misery , And Cursing And Afflicting Men, Long After The Frame It Dwelt In Has Become Dust, And When Both Name And Memory Are Forgotten.