Social warfare, civil strife,
Wither all the flowers of life;
Yet within its bounds assigned
Is that tempest's wrath confined;
And in limits sealed and set
Human passions roll and fret;
O'er the Water-flood Who reigns
Evermore a King remains.
"When above my fainting head
Gathering clouds of ill are spread,
Wild and dark the Heavens around,
Rough my path on alien ground;
Still, O Lord of Hosts, in Thee
Shall my trust unwavering be;
For the dwelling of Thy Throne
Is where tempests are unknown;
And Thy sceptre and Thy sway
All life's waves and storms obey;
O'er the Water-flood Who reigns
Evermore a King remains."
CHAPTER III
GEOMETRIC SYMBOLS OF PROGRESS BY PULSATION
"When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning, He saw Wisdom; and to man He said, The fear of the Lord is Wisdom."
—Job xxviii. 26—28.
While such Seers as Moses, Isaiah, and Odin were struggling to make the masses attend to the Genesis of things, or process of becoming, to give them some sort of faith in the very existence of any Laws of moral development by reaction, certain thinkers of less actively
