I Am Alive.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. --1 Corinthians 13:12

O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now, cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamoured by irrational sleep! --Hermes

If ye knew God as God ought to be known, ye would walk on the seas, and the mountains would move at your call. --The Kashf Al-Mahjub

"For now we see through a glass, darkly." How familiar this passage might be to many of us, but what does it mean other than that our vision is clouded by a material sense of things? Hermes tells us that we are both drunk and asleep, that we are ignorant of God. Emerson tells us that once in a while we awake from our slumber and look about us to perceive the world of reality, but too soon sink back again into sleep. And from another ancient text, quoted above, we are told that if we knew God as we ought to, we would be able to walk on the seas, that the mountains would come at our call. All progress is an awakening. Every new scientific fact is a discovery. This also is an awakening. It is really true that we are largely asleep, dreaming away the hours. "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you life." It is indeed high time that we awake from this sleep. No one can awaken us but our self. Let us, then, make every endeavor to arouse the mind to reality and to penetrate the gloom of fear and superstition, to cast aside doubt and uncertainty, to behold the Light, which is eternal.

I am alive, awake, and aware. My spiritual eyes are open. As from a long night's sleep, I awake!