[271]
[271] Compare M. Maeterlinck: L'Ornement des Noces spirituelles
de Ruysbroeck, Bruxelles, 1891, Introduction, p. xix.
"That art Thou!" say the Upanishads, and the Vedantists add:
"Not a part, not a mode of That, but identically That, that
absolute Spirit of the World." "As pure water poured into pure
water remains the same, thus, O Gautama, is the Self of
a thinker who knows. Water in water, fire in fire, ether in
ether, no one can distinguish them: likewise a man whose mind
has entered into the Self."[272] "'Every man,' says the Sufi
Gulshan-Raz, whose heart is no longer shaken by any doubt, knows
with certainty that there is no being save only One. . . . In
his divine majesty the ME, and WE, the THOU, are not found, for
in the One there can be no distinction. Every being who is
annulled and entirely separated from himself, hears resound
outside of him this voice and this echo: I AM GOD: he has an
eternal way of existing, and is no longer subject to
death.'"[273] In the vision of God, says Plotinus, "what sees is
not our reason, but something prior and superior to our reason.
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