Meet Jalaluddin Rumi, a leading mystical poet of 12th century Persia and go on the journey of ascension.
Passage
I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar
With angels blest ; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, ” To Him we shall return”
Reynold A. Nicholson. Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose. Cambridge University Press, 1922.
