He Who is Altruistic and Does
His Best May Attain the Highest Goal
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In the following poem Ella Wheeler
Wilcox uses the theosophical concept of
Adepts, Initiates, or Masters of the Wisdom.
(CCA)
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All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go
amiss
We learn at
least which path is wrong,
And there is
gain in this.
We do not always
win the race
By only running
right;
We have to tread
the mountain’s base
Before we reach
its height.
The Christs
alone no errors made;
So often had
they trod
The paths that
lead through light and shade,
They had become
as God. [1]
As Krishna,
Buddha, Christ again,
They passed
along the way,
And left those
mighty truths which men
But dimly grasp
to-day.
But he who loves
himself the last
And knows the
use of pain,
Though strewn
with errors all his past,
He surely shall
attain.
Some souls there
are that needs must taste
Of wrong, ere
choosing right;
We should not
call those years a waste
Which led us to
the light.
NOTE:
[1] In esoteric philosophy, the word “God” means the
higher self, the spiritual soul, the universal and sacred Law impersonally
present in everyone’s heart. (CCA)
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The above poem was published in our
associated websites on 03 August 2018. It was reproduced from the book “Poems
of Power”, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., London, 1912, 164
pp., see pp. 79-80.
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