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Section 3: Revelations
Song of the Waves of Sea

I listened to the voice of the waves and it told me of many marvels.
It spoke to me of the joy of life and of the ecstasies of movement.
O Sea, in a song without end and ever renewed, thou didst tell
me again of the power of love which makes all things true. Con-
templating the splendour of thy invincible action, I perceived the
irresistible surge that carries the universe towards the Supreme
Reality. The force that lifts thee and changes thy surface into
mountains is like the force that raises the world out of its inertia
and awakens in it the aspiration for the Divine.

Then as I watched thee in the silence, thou didst speak to me
more deeply still, and thou didst tell me of the great mystery of
eternal Love that loves itself in all forms and is self-revealed in all
activities. Already in my being this ineffable Love lived self-aware,
but at that hour its life took on an exceptional intensity, or per-
haps the individual perception was exceptionally clear. O adorable
Lord, Sovereign Master of the world, Thou who, being all, possess-
est and delightest in all, didst Thou in that moment of Thy eternity
cast a closer glance towards us, that we were thus bathed in such
a magnificence of love? Or was it that Thou didst wish, in the hum-
ble instrument of this ephemeral and limited being, to taste more
strongly and fully, with more intensity and precision, Thy own de-
light of being and self-manifestation? Suddenly all was lit with the
inexpressible beauty of Thy Truth, and in the mirror of the individual
consciousness Thou didst reflect all the infinitely varied modes of
self-expression of Thy being of Love. Pain and enjoyment united and
fused in an ecstasy which seemed as if it must consume the whole
being in its blaze. Oh, how well it understood Thee, this portion of
Thyself that has crystallised into what I call my being, how power-

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