To Leap, To Know, To Build

To leap beyond the confines of the mind,

To vault the barriers of form and sense,

To shed the past and in the present find

The moments of the heart's ambivalence,

To root out evil from its hidden lair

Install at once the living presence there

Obey the soul and its supreme command

Ascending by degrees the great world-stair,

To know at last this troubled being's cause

Unveil the secrets of our tortured past,

Offspring of an evolution's force

When God in all these human bodies cast

His semblance and His seed of things to be,

To build on earth the Lord's vast dynasty

Of truth that man may grow to understand

And manifest the living Deity.