Text of FB05 - The Age-Long Way
by the Rev. J. Todd Ferrier
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I was a little Child: Yet had mine eyes in consciousness
Opened to look upon a Universe Sublime.
The Starry Vault with its innumerable
Inhabitants, overwhelmed me, and filled me
With great Wonder as I talked with Angels.
What were those Stars (I asked of them)
Hung from the stoneless Arch, so full of Sapphire
Glory? And in the language of my Nativity
They told me; for they knew I was a Child.
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Ages rose and set, even as great Sol does day by day,
Bearing God's resplendence, and leaving
Trailing Clouds of Glory as their abiding Benison.
And my own Life bore them company;
For, from age to age, it rose and set,
And rose again the richer for all the Angels did
As they accompanied me.
From Realm to Realm they led me, even Star to Star
As they found me able to endure the journey
And come within the circle of Divine Resplendence.
They taught me much as journeying in the Way
From Sphere to Sphere,
They led me, and communed of the Most Holy One.
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From Life to Life they sphered me in an Auric Glory
Charged with dynamic force to hold me in mine Ascent,
Until I passed to where the Rainbow girdles
The Great White Throne of the Eternal, and stood
Within the Holy Place of Him who is
The Most High and Ever Blessed One,
And looked upon His Radiance, and saw it change
From the White Light to Ruby-Fire
And on to Amethyst.
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To His High Altar Cherubim did lead me:
Awhile the Angels stood apart in holy reverence,
But ready for His service, should He so command.
The Presence spake unto me, and His Voice
Though gentle beyond telling, shook me
From threshold to foundations of my Being;
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Yet in the very shaking, as if by Spiral Breath,
Unified my powers, mine attributes and elements,
And put new strength within me.
And as He spake unto me, the Veils were drawn
Till Mystery upon Mystery stood revealed.
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Those things I saw and heard from Him,
He also sealed within me, and upon them
Wrote His Signature; for they were Secrets,
Such things as none might know
Until HE willed HIMSELF to break the Seal.
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After these things, the Angels bore me Earth-ward,
At His Command; it was His expressed Will
That it should be so with me, that, from age to age,
Until His Holy Purpose was fulfilled in me,
And through me within the magnetic circles
Of the Earth, once its Heavens, I should tarry here
Accomplishing in Service that which His Will
Had purposed, and make the Earth take on again
The Fashion of its unfallen glorious days.
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Ages have rolled, and souls have risen and set,
And risen again to learn and grow
To Consciousness of Blessing, given of His Grace
In ministry of healing and redeeming...
To look through that age-long past
Makes Life seem old: yet Eternal Life is ageless;
And it doth fill me: it is His Gift.
So ever am I back again to Childhood,
Like blooms perennial and Eternal
Upon the Tree of Life.
And I am yet a Child,
His Child, though swept by many ages
Amid the Great Deeps of His Mystery
Whose Breaths, as moved from Him, have clothed me
With Youth Eternal--the resplendent Garment
Of the Son of God within me...
The rising and the setting, then the further rising,
are of no man, but alone of Him. I
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