and special to each,” as one Christian mystic has it. The need felt by Kabīr for both these ways of describing Reality is a proof of the richness, and balance of his spiritual experience which neither cosmic nor anthropomorphic symbols, taken alone, could express. More absolute than the Absolute, more personal than the human mind, Brahma therefore exceeds whilst. He includes all the concepts of philosophy, all the passionate intuitions of the heart. He is the Great Affirmation, the fount of energy, the source of life and love, the unique satisfaction of desire. His creative word is the Om or “Everlasting Yea.” The negative philosophy, which strips from the Divine Nature all Its attributes and--defining Him only by that which He is not--reduces Him to an “Emptiness,” is abhorrent to this most vital of poets. Brahma, he says,“may
