Lxvi.*

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd, «I myself am Heav'n and Hell»:

This quatrain is inspired by O. 15.

Already on the Day of Creation, beyond the heavens, my soul Searched for the Tablet and Pen, and for heaven and hell, At last the Teacher said to me with His enlightened judgment, «Tablet and Pen, and heaven and hell, are within thyself.»

Ref.: O. 15, L. 59, B. 56, P. 114, B. ii. 69, P. v. 79--W. 114, V. 58.