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Hilltop: A Literary Paper. Volume 1 Number 3

[introduction]

This poem is of course partly of the causal plane, or astral, through which much true inspiration comes from spiritual levels, via the subconscious, during sleep, and in waking hours, the production of such a work being almost automatic. So far as any 'thinking it out' is concerned, a great part of my work is produced in this way. The verses partly explain themselves, and embody the wakening of the maiden or woman consciousness in man, wakened in a sense by his higher self, 'the fairy prince,' and by and in which he contacts his divine muse, the 'Sleeping Princess' whose permanent inspiration gives him 'Genius,' the inspirative spiritual glory always being female for a man—the Christian would say the Holy Spirit quite correctly. The idea is found in all great religions and legends based on truth, such as the ancient Semitic story of the Goddess Syndara and Elias, or Syndaraelia and Jesrac, whence springs our childrens' fairy tale of Cindarella and the Prince; the glass slippers which only she can wear, symbolising the clearness of new and inspired spiritual sight, and the marriage of Princess to Prince, of intuititive love to masculine intelligence, of female to male spirit. The Sleeping Beauty is another 'fairy tale' from ancient sources illustrating this divine theme. Or we may put it this way: man's becoming one with his higher spiritual self, 'a Prince,' contacts Syndaraelia, the Princess,' spiritual, personal and universal, (also present in his wife or true love on earth), and is evermore inspired by Her, as it were awake in his heart and mind. For without Her, as without woman, we men can achieve nothing, while with Her we can achieve to the highest spiritual genius in Music, Poetry, Literature, Art, Invention, or Science, as our line may be, or in all of these, which, with universal and solar-planetary, or Galactic knowledge, constitute the Theo-Thea unal science of Cosmology wherein one is a qualified student and teacher of Eternity and the Eternal, and a speaker and writer of the supreme and sublime—Love's all—as prophets and poets are, and as all men one day may become, by women and women alone, here and on high.

Reincarnation is touched on once in these verses, a fact for many people besides theosophists.

They conclude with a picture of the disciple of wisdom, adept in knowledge and in expression of knowledge, giving all praise to eternal and divine 'Woman,' the 'hilarious' one, and holiest we know in heaven and earth, muse and cause of all good things in man.