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158 As this poem shows, he is a sort of paradoxical personal pantheist, or Christian pantheist. The soul of Christ, more than that of any other revealer of the divine, is to him a sister soul. At daybreak on a battlefield he sees three wounded men asleep, and suddenly one of them seems to him to be Christ:

And as he had felt himself like unto God, so he feels like unto Christ. The same accusations had been brought against them both:

He seeks only to found the city of love; and his resolute purpose gives him the right to believe himself more truly Christian than those who bear that name merely as a sign of cold devotion. He speaks thus To Him that was Crucified: My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you … That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession … Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men. …