15. Aspiration15

Imagination was aspiration.
Inspiration was aspiration.
Now aspiration is inspiration.

When imagination was aspiration
I felt that I was of my Inner Pilot
    And
I was for my Inner Pilot.

When inspiration was aspiration
I felt that I could fly
To my Eternity's Beloved Supreme.

When aspiration is inspiration,
When the real becomes conscious
    Of its existence in us,
God the unmanifested Reality
    Becomes not only the manifested Reality
    But the only Reality
In the world of glowing hope,
In the world of flowing reality.


15. In the original first edition, the third line read 'Now aspiration is aspiration.'