'Chord Of Beauty 15/10/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

Inayat Khan of Universal Sufism uses the same
words as RA Moody, a scientist, and Deepak
Chopra of Hindu origin, to describe human
condition right after death

The soul encounters a world it has made during
its life on earth, the mind becomes a world, the
imagination becomes reality where the mind’s
contents, all experiences in memory

Determine how this new life is; joy of joys, delight
of delights, the soul rises to the standard of its
ideal and does the work it desires, oh, joyous
marvellous destiny!

Then I shall finally be happy, I am going to pick up
my dusty ideals, polish and shine them again, stare
at my beautiful dreams and add a few more, imbibe
the dreams of other great thinkers and visionaries

Augment my own ideas with the flights of imagination
of spiritual masters and teachers, preparing a mind
filled to the brim with the music of the spheres – in
which I shall be a minor chord of beauty!


HJ Witteveen “Universal Sufism” Element 1997
pp.81,82