I am the beginning
And I am the end.
Between two hurricanes of light,
And the flashing muses dancing in
the Arcadian sun;
Between two deserts white as bone,
Between two furnaces, hell and heaven.
I am the one eye and the one body.
I am the one truth and gilded soul.
Of twenty-million royal days,
Of infinite stars dripping in the infinite void,
Of savage movements through the destiny of fortune,
Of ecstasy infernal in the marauding mind,
Of hauntings ecstatic through the inaudible gears,
Of arms of ocean and pillars of men,
Of mountains made dust by the breath of time.
I am oblivion without name,
I am the eagle perched on the dying elephant.
With height insurmountable,
With tongues of fire they speak for me.
With love beyond love beyond love,
They practice me.
They go, and I leave them.
They see, and I see them.
I am they as you are,
I am you through the abyss of eternal life.
Lord of infinity ten times twelve,
And the worlds collapsing and the world rebuilt,
One with all,
All patient and
All being.
I am in ad infinitude,
For deaths in ice
And paradise everlasting.
Hear what is said,
And live what is said.
Lord of infinity ten times twelve.
I am the secret of secrets,
Hidden where even truth cannot see.
All things collapse in me,
And rise again.
Awake and be happy;
I am the beginning
And I am the end.