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The Peak of the Rainbow Swan

Through your being, and mine, and that of every human member of the universal family, flow the limitless energies of infinity. Over each questing human brow spreads a glow of spirital radiance. In each sincere human breast blossoms a soul nourished and guided by the warming rays of infinite unity. The Infinite is real. Religions reach for it. Human values reflect it. Men and women live their lives following cherished dreams of it.

      There are those who tell of encountering a beautiful, rainbow-colored swan gliding through the void. To see it is to know the presence of that for which names are only clouding concepts. Nothing exists outside of it. Nothing came before it or follows after it. Its multihued parts, in graceful motion, are the primordials and finordials of all things.

      Beyond the places shown on the maps of humankind, a great peak reaches to the stars. Here the Rainbow Swan calls those to whom it is to reveal its majestic passage. Those who have been to this peak cannot tell you the way. The steppingstones across which they labored were shrouded in mist, the handholds at which they strained, drifted in snow. The way to the peak of the Rainbow Swan is a finite contact with an infinite reality, whispered deep in the human soul. It may be touched in passing, but never captured.