The Imprisoned Splendor

“Truth is within ourselves;

it takes no rise from outward things whate’er you may believe.

There is an utmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;

and around, wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,

this perfect clear perception—-which is TRUTH.

A baffling and perverting carnal mesh binds it and makes all error:

and to KNOW rather consists in opening out a way whence

THE EMPRISONED SPLENDER

may escape, than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without’

Robert Browning

The mind, locked up and controlled, is the final frontier.

The battle for control, the final conflict

Open the blind eyes, bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness in the prison-house Isaiah 42:7