Mystery

AS THE VEIL OF MYSTERY’S LIFTED

Tune:

MERTON 87.87
William Henry Monk 1823-1889
 

1. As the veil of mystery’s lifted,
   When the sacred curtains part,
   We discern no holy image
   But find wonder in our heart.

2. When all images have vanished
   And a “nothingness” is found
   In that emptiness dwells myst’ry
   Gently coming without sound.

3. When all images have vanished
   And a “nothingness” is found
   In that emptiness dwells myst’ry
   Gently coming without sound.

4. Every image holds a message
   Bringing hope or danger’s woe
   But the myst’ry has no image
   To confine its mystic flow.

5. As the veil of myst’ry’s lifted,
   When the sacred curtains part,
   We discern no holy image
   But find wonder in our heart.

Text © William Livingstone Wallace
 
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Hymns “Cosmic Mystery”

 
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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.

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