439.-444.

439 – All that my Lover has, belongs tome. Why do you abuse me for showing off the ornaments He has given to me?

440 – My Lover took His crown and royal necklace from His head and neck and clothed me with them; but the disciples of the saints and the prophets abused me and said, “He is hunting after Siddhis.” ¹

441 – I did my Lover’s commands in the world and the will of my Captor; but they cried, “Who is this corruptor of youth, this disturber of morals?”

442 – If I cared even for your praise, O ye saints, if I cherished my reputation, O ye prophets, my Lover would never have takenme intoHis bosom and given me the freedom of His secret chambers.

443 – I was intoxicated with the rapture of my Lover and I threw the robe of the world from me even in the world’s highways. Why should I care that the worldlings mock and the Pharisees turn their faces?

444 – To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, and is it not Thou in the stones that strikest and hurtest me?

There is nothing to say. One can only bow before the perfection of the experience.

3 April 1970

¹ Occult powers. _(back)