It would be impossible in one volume to enumerate all the poets who have
given evidence of supra-consciousness. As has been previously pointed out,
all true poets are at least temporarily aware of their dual nature--rather,
one should say, the dual phases of their consciousness. Many, perhaps, do
not function beyond the higher planes of the psychic vibrations, but even
these are aware of the reality of the soul, and the illusion of the
sense-conscious, mortal life.
Dante; the Brownings; Shelley; Swinbourne; Goethe; Milton; Keats; Rosetti;
Shakespeare; Pope; Lowell--where should we stop, did we essay to draw a
line?
WORDSWORTH
Wordsworth, the poet of Nature has given us in his own words, so clearly
cut an outline of his Illumination, that we can not resist recording here
the salient points which mark his experience as that of cosmic
consciousness, transcending the more frequent phenomenon of
soul-consciousness and its psychic functions.
Wordsworth's Ode to immortality epitomizes the lesson of the Yoga
sutras--out of The Absolute we come, and return to immortal bliss with
consciousness added.
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