Knowledge We find the Good by being good, the True By being true, the Real by dissolving Our fond illusions, thereby piercing through Shadow, and knowing substance. By resolving, We can attain, and by attaining, know ; And, knowing, who shall cause us grief or harm? What trembling victim of the world’s vain show Shall pierce the armoured heart, or foil the arm Of him whose Shield is Wisdom? What event, What circumstance, what mutability Can shake the Changeless? And whoso hath blent His life with Changeless Good, stands steadfastly In Knowledge, fearing nothing, hating naught; His heart and
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