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This discarding of an outer husk is of the very nature of spiritual knowledge for, as J. Gonda explains,

In contradistinction to human knowledge the so-called divine knowledge is considered to be infinite, unlimited, eternal, free from errors and imperfections, unconditioned, unequalled and above the limitations or time and space. It is neither inferential, nor analogical, nor verbal, but only perceptual in character.[8]

The character of this knowledge may be observed particularly in those poems which take in a wide perspective of time, poems which look backward to the remote past and forward to the distant future, encircling the spheres of time and space:

EACH SERVICE-HEART

Each service-heart
Sculptures the perfection-beauty
Of tomorrow's self-transcending
    New world.                 (no. 1272)

I CAME FROM GOD

I came from God
    The Eternal Dreamer.
I am heading towards God
    The Immortal Lover.            (no. 734)

MAN FIRST CAME TO KNOW OF GOD

Man first came to know of God
When religion-flames arose
From humanity's crying
    And tearing heart.            (no. 453)

As the spiritual possibilities of future years open themselves to the poet's gaze, his voice often assumes prophetic overtones: