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Traherne, Thomas - Dumbness - A world of innocence as then was mine
Identifier
000161
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Thomas Traherne – from Dumbness
A world of innocence as then was mine
In which the joys of Paradise did shine
And while I was not here I was in Heaven
Not resting one, but every day in seven
Forever minding with a lively sense
The universe in all its excellence
No other thoughts did intervene to cloy
Divert, extinguish or eclipse my joy
No other customs, new found wants or dreams
Invented here polluted my pure streams
No aloes or dregs, no Wormwood star
Was seen to fall into the sea from far
No rotten soul did, like an apple near
My soul approach. There's no contagion here
An unperceived donor gave all pleasures
There nothing was but I, and all my treasures
The source of the experience
Traherne, ThomasConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
TreasureScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Being a childBelieving in the spiritual world
Communing with nature
Squash the big I am