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Here, kingship along with its attendant cluster of associations gives substance to the final end of spiritual questing. Other poems infer that the "royal road" leading to God is paved with divine love:
 

LOVE-WIND BLOWS

Love-wind blows
In all directions,
Cheerfully, speedily
    And
Fruitfully
Who divinely follows?
Emperor-Calm
Of Eternity's Height. [7]

In the compound metaphor that closes this poem, Sri Chinmoy fuses both personal and impersonal aspects of God. The word "Emperor" acts as a gateway to our understanding of the profound peace of God, for it supports in a symbolic way the implications of height, loftiness and pervasive influence that are released by the three abstract nouns following it. Although "Emperor" stands out as the only word with a specifically human application, its position in the poem is secured by its participation in the magnificent closural effect of a double choriamb.

A further approach to God based on His authority is embodied in the Middle English word "Lord." Although it carries a strong sense of the dignity and power of the office of ruler, in conformity with its original meaning, the more austere and aloof overtones of this word have been modified by centuries of petitions and prayers to God in this mode. With the attrition of the feudal system, from which Lord derived, the symbolic level of meaning has come to supercede the word's primary meaning. The suggestiveness of the word as symbol nevertheless remains undiminished. The best symbols free themselves of time and space and exist in a dimension of perpetual significance, for as long as men continue to experience the states which they describe they will receive new relevance and new energy. In his poem "Jerusalem," Blake offers a poetical explanation of the unchanging nature of interior experiences: