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The collected poems of Arthur Edward Waite

in two volumes ... With a Portrait

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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

The places of peace are also those of exaltation.

The Secret of Success

Peace in high places; on the peaks supreme,
Far over passion's mists, deep peace of love;
Light of true light, the glory and the gleam;
Far over troubled sleep, what worlds of dream
Give space for souls—yes, there is room above!

Sleep naturally passes into dream, but there is a certain repose in which dream is exalted into vision; and this at its induction is initiation, but at the end, adeptship.