{"id":117,"date":"1985-08-02T22:38:53","date_gmt":"1985-08-03T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:15:36","slug":"world-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/08\/02\/world-within\/","title":{"rendered":"World Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We, yes the mortals now around,<br \/>\nWithin worlds and worlds known not;<br \/>\nThinking and the contact permeated<br \/>\nBy more than our thoughts created;<br \/>\nOr more than by what any God begot;<br \/>\nWorlds within in which me move about.<\/p>\n<p>Close the eyes (which see only as much<br \/>\nAs can a stone); only sight is gone:<br \/>\nVision remains as behind the eyes<br \/>\nA world of imaginings does materialize;<br \/>\nReal, as we alone can feel &#8211; alone.<br \/>\nA world within worlds, foreign to touch,<\/p>\n<p>Foreign to gross and bodily senses<br \/>\n(To which, though, no sense is foreign).<br \/>\nEach sense conscious as its function:<br \/>\nThe Doer and this world&#8217;s conjunction.<br \/>\nSense impressions should not reign<br \/>\nThe Doer&#8217;s thought, his acts, intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Lead to lies by limited impressions:<br \/>\nSight can&#8217;t perceive as much as vision;<br \/>\nSight only sees the solid of the solid plane;<br \/>\nVision goes beyond this; thinking does the same.<br \/>\nHow and what the Doer thinks is his own decision &#8211;<br \/>\nPlacing him within the Eternal Order of Progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, yes the mortals now around,<br \/> Within worlds and worlds known not;<br \/> Thinking and the contact permeated<br \/> By more than our thoughts created;<br \/> Or more than by what any God begot;<br \/> Worlds within in which me move about.<\/p>\n<p>Close the eyes (which see only as much<br \/> As can a stone); only sight is gone:<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}