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Poetry culminates in the Apollonian gift of Prophecy.36 The divine impulse thus awakens the Prophetic Word whose spirit carries the divine breath and life, His mystery divine, and of all poetries, the Living Word, prophetic, is the most precious. “In it, there’s a light which jewels and gems do not possess.”37 It is inspired; it inspires. Its cosmic luminosity carries the impulse of Living Verse and Living Light: the incantations of the starry ways 3⁄4 life. The voice of the Bard, his Word, might contain so much life; it heals.38 It contains so much Light; it “might control the starry pole and fallen light renew.” For only Divine Light can renew the fallen light. Housed in the starry pole, his Living Word not only loves Beauty, but also, it is Beauty’s beloved. In loving Beauty, it is the beginning of things, and in becoming Beauty’s beloved, it is the ending of things. And in this beginning and this ending, the circle of Beauty circulates, without beginning, without end, eternally embellishing the World Soul. And in cherishing Beauty eternal, the Living Word loves the soul, for the soul not only carries The Word’s Beauty, but is also being carried by Beauty’s Word.
36 Khan, Hazrat Inayat. Sufi Mysticism. Vol. X. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1995. 207
37 Khan, Hazrat Inayat. Sufi Mysticism. Vol. X. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1995. 207
38 Khan, Hazrat Inayat. Sufi Mysticism. Vol. X. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1995. 207
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