Gems from the Spirit World by Shakespeare

Gems from the Spirit World

by Spirit Shakespeare

GOD

The life behind all life—

The governing power—

The pulse of every orb and swinging sphere

The Guardian, Keeper, Judge—yet more than all,

The Father of mankind—whom He holds dear.

SPIRIT

The man himself, with all his baser nature,

Freed from the flesh to find his heaven or hell—

His form the same, as every taste and longing,

But unconfined by mortal case or shell.

LIFE

The spark Divine—

The ray we know as spirit—

Undying as the God who gives and takes—

Part of Himself, though housed in poverty—

Enriching those with love the world forsakes.

MIND

Reflection of Himself, is mind eternal—

And mirrored in each soul of all mankind—

Undying thought, or will in deed or purpose—

The part that lives when clay is left behind!

OMNIPOTENCE

The One pervading ALL.

DEATH

The pall that covers all, and all reveals.

The change that casts a worthless shell aside.

Of sleep the brother-twin but knows all waking.

Death is the bridegroom surely—Life the bride!

PRAYER

Supplication of Divinity—

God's intercession—

Upliftment of the spirit to His Throne—

The sharing of our every earthly burden—

The merging of our spirits with His own.

HEAVEN

A place beyond the earth or sight of woe—

A land of love and happiness supreme—

No longing—missing—haunting memories—

But all that mortals on the earth did dream.

LOVE

A meeting of two souls that mate as one—

The idol in the ideal perfected—

The past a blank which held these two apart—

The future? Time through which love shall be fed.

MOTHER

My own—a gentle, loving, happy heart,

Content if I but trudged on by her side—

An aching void, a hungering after her,

I've never met in all this countrywide.

SALVATION

Reward of righteous living,

God's salvation—

Unknown by many who were great on earth,

Who took no count of Life's eternal balance,

But hastened out in direst want and dearth.

WOMAN

The last—most perfect work of the Almighty—

The equal of Himself in many ways.

The one gift that perfected His creation—

The only solace of man's earthly days.

SIN

Defiance of God's laws—a heathen state—

A robber of the rights of blessedness.

The golden calf which makes sin possible;

And lust, the curse of mortal's wretchedness.

WISDOM

God—Almighty Providence—Creator—

The Father of mankind, and Judge at last—

No lesser mind can share His understanding—

No one can see His plan, though breath has passed.

LIGHT

That which at God's word appeared to bless

A world he wrought with His Almighty Hand—

And ever since has blessed production, Life—

And still men doubt the world creation planned!

BLISS

Joy to the nth power raised.

Elation—

Boon success—

The honeyed, fleeting second—

The twin of happiness.

JOY

The birth of roseate dawn within the heart—

A heart that never dies when dies the clay—

Eternal is the attribute of joy—

Its memory death has never ta'en away.

WAR

One of the crimes a demon hath devised

To wrack men's souls in darkness when they die

With stained hands smeared by their brother's gore—

And souls like theirs in millions streaming by!

DUTY

The path of right though wearied by its call—

Consideration last of your desires—

A beacon to the consciences of men—

A holy light illuming with its fires.

IDOLS

The fleeting gods we fashion for ourselves,

And care not that they are made of earth and clay,

Until we find them dust within our hands,

Stained so that naught can wash the stain away!

FREEDOM

Unweighted, and unchained, sovereign of act and will

Unpinioned and unshackled liberty

Which answers to no law whoever made,

Knows no master—plans its own destiny.

HOME

A fireside where the loved ones sit—

A place of warmth and cheer and welcoming—

Abiding love surrounded by four walls,

And sheltered by an angel's snowy-wing.

HAPPINESS

The glow imparted by a dear one's nearness—

The lasting satisfaction known by some

Who have achieved ambitions fondly cherished—

But he who has served God, where I have come!

FAME

To live within the thoughts and minds of men—

To gain earth's plaudits, wreathed with immortelle—

To find no name or aught it made on earth,

Can heal a sick soul's wounds or make it well.

CREATION

The power of God to fashion through the spirit—

The power God gave to man to re-create—

The part within, which claims Him Maker—Master,

Amazing genius.

Godlike gifts innate.

CHARITY

Perception, with unclouded vision—

Through suffering and trials clarified—

The patience and forgiveness of the Master.

The kindness that through all has never died.

SAINTS

A saint on earth is one who knows God's laws,

Applies them to his living every hour.

A sainted one above I have not seen—

Their realms o'ertop mine own, as castle tower

O'erpinacles the sea—

As clouds of heaven o'er a castle are!

As sun and moon above the Mother Earth,

So we think on the saints, as some far distant star!

SUCCESS

The brand of fame or wealth upon the earth,

Where men are gauged by what they count a name—

But in the land where men go hence from here,

'Tis what they take, which holds no sting of shame.

FAILURE

The brand, which carries sin upon its face—

The last sad rite, which meets man at the end,

Which sears his soul a lost one to his God,

And sends him hence to meet no cherished friend.

GAIN

That which endures through all of Time—

That which a man can take out to his God—

No earthly treasure, which a man can horde,

But that which profits burial in the sod.

REDEMPTION

Payment of the tithe through prayer and sorrow—

The solving of God's Law Immutable—

Acceptance, while ye may, of Jesus' promise,

Or after death judgment inscrutable.

PRIDE

Ancestral heritage of honour, valorous deeds,

Which runs through generations of mankind—

A wordly element for most part left behind—

The humbled spirit has no pride, I find.

BEAUTY

Forms and tints expressed through love by Him

Who made all things that are—

The half of which man on the earth knows not,

But 'till he looks back on his life from far.

ART

The highest type expressed of men by God,

In all creations of the mind or skill—

The wondrous power of rare perfection's will;

The power behind the seed within the sod.

FOES

Disgruntled jealousies, unwarranted and undone—

The viper in the breast of warring men—

The lurking foe, who harms at last himself,

Mayhap will know no peace ever again.

A SOUL

That part of God in His own image made

Undying as all life of His great plan—

His mind, His thought, His love, His child, Himself—

Inhabiting a temple God made—man.

DEMOCRACY

A land all free whose people rule themselves—

A Nation all united in one cause—

Consideration for the humble man—

A ruling by divine, not human laws.

MONARCHY

The rule of tyrannous and pompous great

Who have descended in their line to rule—

The condescending of the royal house

To reign and lord it o'er peasant, prince and fool.

PEACE

The God-of-All come into all men's hearts,

To bless with love each one, ay, even as a brother—

The Infinite who rules supplying needs,

And all for which His own slay one another.

MERCY

'Tis said in Shakespeare's work, the whole of it—

Open the book and read if you see fit.

But one thing still would I add to the page—

God's holiest attribute is lost unto this age.

FAITH

Hope's first aspiring, firm in trusting grown,

Unbounded faith becomes, God makes His own.

PROGRESS

Headway along God's chosen path however slow it seems—

Faith in the Lord to save, forgive and wake from earthly dreams.

RELIGION

The cassock of a priest who mumbles prayers,

Embroidered o'er with gold enwrought with gems,

Is less (both wearer and his garb) in heaven's eyes,

Than some poor beggar who sin's current stems!

REMORSE

The pain of conscience, which upsets the mind—

The pangs of spirit, soul—the part God saves

To be His own however soiled and worthless it has been—

The test of sin when men have passed their graves.

LAW

Precepts carved upon the stone at God's command—

Divine adjustment—weighed by God's own hand.

BONDS

The ties, which bind true lovers here together—

The gold certificate men sell their souls to own—

The chains men forge, which weld them to the earth plane.

Where everyone must reap what he has sown.

GHOSTS

The wraith of death men speak of sneeringly—

Recalling in a joke its sight or name—

But when they find these ghosts are just as they,

They'll ponder long the way through which they came.

GHOSTS

The wraithlike form inhabiting man's clay,

Which men deride, except those who have seen—

The part God made which nevermore can die,

That being freed should be His own and clean.

GLORY

Past thought of him who writes through this one's hand—

The joy of King or Kingdom or Glory of God's Land.

PURITY

Unsullied virtue, which but few possess,

Except while infants at their Mother's breasts,

Untrammelled by the lusts of mortal flesh,

Unlearned of the power of sin's requests.

MERCY

The quality of spirit in the mind

Which spares affliction's rod—

And leaves to Him all merciful and kind,

The punishment belonging but to God.

JUSTICE

The balance held within God's hand,

Firm, Almighty, Just and True,

Which measures every thought, as well

As every deed you do.

VICE

The leper foul, which rots the soul for aye,

And brands it with its burning, searing fire,

Until the spirit would not own its self—

But wishes for destruction's end entire.

ZEAL

The fire of purpose burning in the heart—

Creation's elemental force and sway—

By hope and faith 'tis fed and moulds with these,

The attributes no death can wipe away!

DEEDS

Each daily act, each hourly thought, which brings men to their own.

For which there is but justice wrought, where deeds must speak alone.

STARS

The same spheres we have seen at night alight, aswing, aglow,

We spirits see, as men of earth, and wonder WHEN we'll know.

WORDS

The language, or the tongue by which men speak—

The thoughts made audible or plain—

The broken sounds of all intelligible,

Where spirits moan their past with all its pain.

WITCHES

Old crones who haunt with evil minds

Places of bad intent,

Whose hopes and wishes of all kinds

Are on disaster bent.

The soured and hateful of the world,

Where witches only go—

So mend your way—

THINK e're you SAY;

There ARE witches, you know.

BROTHERHOOD

The kinship of the nearest—of same sire.

The poorest of the earth can claim Him, his—

Then, are not all in loving bondage held—

When one God, one Father, made each soul, His?

PROPHECY

Foretelling through the spirit's help, events;

Revelation, more or less divine—

Calling on powers behind the veil of death,

As Jesus did when He took water and made wine.

VISIONS

The stone once rolled away, revealment then

To sight of scenes past mortal to conjure;

The truth few men can bear, as Jesus knew,

When He beheld alone God's divine power.

DREAMS

Imprints on the mind which passing strange

Lead men to wonder, oft to gasp and fear;

The web of fancy spun through sleeping hours;

The working of the witches, sometimes, here.

THE UNIVERSE

God's Word. His thought. His plan.

Created for those imaged forth as man;

Suspended by His will to be and move;

Out of His heart, a tribute of His love.

PRESENTIMENT

O'ershadowing doom reflected on the mind—

Predestination wing, encircling the gloom,

Where reason holds a torch, the path to find.

ALCHEMY

The soluble dissolved by formula,

Producing by itself a compound force

Uniting by degrees the liquid parts

Of the unknown and unsuspected source.

MYTH

Inventions of the mind and solely this—

No god or goddess lore was ever true—

Of old, e're Shakespeare's time, invention ruled,

When greater men had nothing else to do.

PHILOSOPHY

Delving for truth for all self evident;

Making much of nothing, nothing gained;

Encircling a circle round and round,

Arriving at wits end unsoothed and pained.

POETRY

Effusions of the elevated mind,

Which towers above all other human kind—

Belated to the gods by a true claim—

Though much, so-called, misnomered by its name.

HUMANITY

River of souls fast hurrying whence they care not—

Freighted with care, uncompassed and unmanned—

Dwarfed by the unrealty called living—

Bridged by a span—uncertain, oft unspanned.

GRACE

The love of God—His smile— His words, Well done—

Reward of all who follow in the footsteps of His Son.

FRIEND

A saviour—helper—honoured, treasured, few—

A sacrifical saint, selfless and true.

VICTORY

The status of the soul when the stone is rolled away—

The overcoming of all things for which a soul must pay.

WOES

Affliction's gnawing tooth. Dregs of the Christly cup.

The bloody sweat of earth's men until with Him they sup.

VIRTUE

The unshamed, unsullied follower of God's laws

Hath virtue's cheek unblushed for sinful cause.

RIGHTEOUSNESS

The lamp God sets within the heart and hand

To guide His children through sin's barren land.

FELLOWSHIP

The right to sup with Him and drink His cup—

The right to share His cross, divinely lifted up.

LOSS

A soul outcast who lived his life in vain;

Who, having all on earth, in spirit hath no gain.

HOLY

All His.

DARKNESS

The realm above the earth where spirits go

To pay the price for sins cherished below—

A dome (for all I know) without a ray,

Where sinners pay and pay and pay and pay.

PRAISE

Adoration of the just and true;

The Light, the God within, whose praise is due

From every heart and lip, each flower and shrub as well

The love of Him surpassing words to tell.

ETERNITY

Forever. Unending Time.

That which was before all worlds,

Beyond the powers to grapple—

A secret His, sublime!

FOOLS

Ye at war. As all who kill.

As as all who pass Him by.

The whoreson, thief, reviler, sot,

Or Shakespeare. Fool, was I.

PARDON

Divine forgiveness after repentant years

Through which a spirit in remorse prays, pleads, with bitter tears.

When last they drink the final cup,

He sends His Son to lift them up.

GUILT

The unconfessed and stealthy crimes

Which to each spirit clings and grimes

The soul, 'till all is washed away

Through One who died their guilt to pay.

CHILDREN

Offspring—offshoot from body, branch or mind—

Her cub and his, no matter by whom planned;

And all in All—which ye shall one day find.

ANGELS—CHERUBIMS—SERAPHS

Supposed winged bodies in heaven's space.

Sharing the saint's abodes; no doubt His grace.

The one who writes has seen no angel wing,

Nor heard a single note that cherubs sing.

HELL

Remorse of conscience round but after death.

(The change which changes, yet leaves sins the same)

And this is quite enough all spirits find,

Without a Lucifer, his brimstone or his flame.

MEDIUMS

The instruments in tune with spirit.

A human's ears or eyes through suffering made keen

Above their kind, which spirits seek and seek to find.

Mouthpieces for the world unseen.

The gifted ones who suffer for His gift.

(Unless placed in their hands at birth)

The truest servants of the Lord on earth.

HEAVEN

Heaven is the place where Love exists.

CLOUDS

Obscurity.

Clouds roll on high above my head as yours;

In all their beauty, still I worship them

As part of God's own beauteous firmament;

Whose secret must endure until no end?

CHEER

Bubbles of life's wine both felt and seen—

The quality of mind abhorring all that's lean.

TEMPTATION

Allurement of sin and sinners enticing with a serpent's sting.

Whose fangs a soul o'erwhelms.

SOCIETY

Fools who are fooled by their own law's decree;

Outclassed, outshone, outdone, their knighthood chivalry

By those who knew the Law and kept it too,

Where is no caste except God welcome you.

THEOSOPHISTS

The clan of mortals not content to be

Made like Himself by Him throughout eternity;

But grasping by a chance a new fecundity

Spored through the spawn of their saner intellectuality.

PHYSICAL RESEARCH

Seekers of spirit's records. Sublime task.

A welcoming lifeline thrown the dead at last.

Who seeks shall find. There's naught can stem the tide

Of helpers bound to help these from the spirit side.

GAMESTERS

Souls playing with their lives eternal

While staking all upon the game of life.

Hounded by chance where is no game but losing,

Stoned by their conscience here they learn of strife.

MAGNETISM

A current flowing as doth flow a river—

Rising, ebbing, is this human tide—

Where it is found no mortal should be homeless—

Where is its health, there spirits would abide.

SPIRIT CONTROL

Humans as magnets are when is invasion.

No welcoming need be if these magnets true—

But such perfecting through the spirits teaching.

Must most assume before they will to do.

PERSONALITY

The pattern individual, unlost.

The type achieved and carried hence for aye.

The absolute unchanged, unchanging self—

No grave nor dying ever casts away.

LEGERDEMAIN

Stalwart humans posing as demi-gods

Performing supernatural feats through spirits aid

Aiming to fool the world of spirit help

Are crass ingrates—facts bared should be here laid.

IGNORANCE

The blind all satisfied with their estate

Whose ears are closed to harmonies sublime.

Hellbound their spirits hold no wealth at last,

But suffer for their choice for their own crime.

CALVARY

The mount from which souls rise.

SORROW

All earth's shall drink of sorrow's cup—

'Twas this for which He died—

Though He was God's beloved Son,

Sorrow Him crucified.

COWARDS

All men who call not on His name, confessing before men

That Jesus died to save the world, through Christ, for God.

Amen

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