God Himself within his soul. At other times he desires “to be indeed a God”;[1] says “that there is no God any more divine than Yourself”;[2] or delights “to be this incredible God I am.”[3] In one of the songs entitled Whispers of Heavenly Death he openly proclaims himself as the most powerful of Gods:
Consolator most mild, the promis’d one advancing,
With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems …
All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself.[4]
And he includes within himself not merely all things, but all times as well:
I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time …
And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.[5]
Furthermore, he comprises in himself not only all things and all times, but all men, men of all conditions and of all ages. In the Song of Myself, at the close of one of his endless enumerations of men, he asserts:
And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.[6]
