Golden and Silver Lights of the Inner Heaven of Dreams, Visions and Revelations Revelation

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“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.”  ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia

To know yourself, to know ourselves, we live

By light within the mind.  Some lesser lights

Subsist inside the soul.  They help to sieve

Untruths away.  We set up holy heights

To prophetize for us when we desire

The richness that we need when that one sun,

The ultra sun inside, goes dim.  A fire

Is sometimes deputized.  It serves the one

Our souls find tightening, swirls.  They twirl,

Our spirits and our lesser lights.  They spin

To face the greatest glowing globe, unfurl

Within us, but they all are speres within.

  We do not love the lesser lights unless

    They hurl themselves to that one’s faithfulness.

~ Phillip Whidden