Poem January 28, 1980 Issue

"Before Abraham was, I am"

John 8:58

MAURICE JAY

I, too, before Abraham?
Not the personal, mortal self,
but the image of that Person
announced from a bush ever burning
but never consumed.
Before Abraham was,
a self that never can be mortal (consumed)
whose Parent says

I AM THAT I AM.
With individuality rooted
in this Principle (inseparably reflecting
its boundlessness),

I am
before and after and through the time
of any illusory mortal.
This self that was before Abraham
now cradled
in holy consciousness.

The always-was.

MAURICE JAY

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