What is Love?

Hail to thee, my brother―

Friend of heart and soul―

Father, sister, mother.

Part―and yet the whole.

In the past, I knew thee―

When thou wast a flower.

On my stem, I bore thee.

Blossom of an hour.

In the Now behold me―

Hidden in thy breast―

In the life around thee.

Both as host and guest.

I and thou transfigured.

Thou and I become―

Unity prefigured.

For we two are one.

David Stott (communicated by automatic writing―I AWOKE! Conditions of Life on the other Side, 1895, London, Part II, The Pneuma, Unity, 131