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GOLDEN MYSTIC SUN

The descending fire descends;
The ascending fire ascends.
The smile of Light
Watches their tasks divine
From across the empty space
Where the hands of ether
Salute the golden mystic sun.[46]

As a symbol for God, the sun not only observes the communion of Heaven and earth but irradiates both spheres with its boundless light. In other poems, the point at which the soul attains oneness with God is seen as a merging in the sun, as the following extracts show:

My spirit aware of all the heights,
I am mute in the core of the Sun.
I barter nothing with time and deeds;
My cosmic play is done.[47]

I am the self-amorous child of the Sun.

I shall win at last the Noonward Race,
Plunge in the Nectar-Sea.

The sun unites the aspiration-flames of the seeker and the wisdom-fire of God. Significantly, in the first stanza of a poem addressed to God as "Master" the poet writes:

0 Lord of Nature, sovereign Sun of all!
    Who, if not Thou, will speak of Thee?
    Thy smile of Grace through Eternity
Frees all aspiring souls from night's dumb call.[48]