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In the United States, before spiritualist foolishness at the end of the last century confused mysticism with 鈥渢he occult鈥 and tarnished both, William James wrote a master work of metaphysics; Emerson spoke of 鈥渢he wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One聽.聽.聽.鈥; Melville referred to 鈥渢hat profound silence, that only voice of God鈥; Walt Whitman celebrated the most ancient secret, that no God could be found 鈥渕ore divine than yourself.鈥 And then, almost everywhere, a clear and subtle illumination that lent magnificence to life and
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the great sins, so the Sherpas say, are to pick wild flowers and to threaten children.
