Awaken O my inner self

Discern your Bethlehem,

Prepare to enter deep within

And wear your diadem.

The crown each infant wears of right,

As child of sky and earth,

Is gifted by the outer God

Incarnate in their birth.

 

Behind the doors within the self

There lies a mystic world,

A world of angel images

Where mystery is unfurled;

A world where light and darkness wed,

Where parts converge again.

A world beyond our outer needs,

Beyond all joy and pain.

 

The mystic sphere and tactile things

Form but one common thread,

A golden wholeness which enfolds

The living and the dead.

Within the myst’ry’s heart we meet

Compassion’s wounded hands

Which bid us all to join with God

In weaving healing strands.

 

Alternative Tune: FOREST GREEN

Text and Music © William Livingstone Wallace.

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