IT is not easy to fall out of the hands of the living
God
They are so
large, and they cradle so much of a man.
It is a long time before a man
can get himself away.
Even through the greatest blasphemies, the hands
of the
living God
still continue to cradle him.
And still through knowledge and will, he can break
away
man can break
away, and fall from the hands of God
into himself alone, down the godless plunge of
the abyss,
a
god-lost creature turning upon himself
in the long, long fall, revolving upon
himself
in the
endless writhe of the last, the last self-knowledge
which he can never reach till
he touch the bottom of the abyss
which he can never touch, for the abyss is
bottomless.
And there is nothing else, throughout time and
eternity
but the
abyss, which is bottomless,
and the fall to extinction, which can never
come,
for the abyss
is bottomless,
and
the turning down plunge of writhing of self-knowledge,
self-analysis
which
goes further and further, and yet never finds an end
for there is no
end,
it is the abyss
of the immortality
of those that have fallen from God.