ASK.m Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/yehaveaskedenougOOchri 1956 Paradise Press Paradise, Pennsylvania YE HAVE ASKED ENOUGH by Christina YE HAVE ASKED ENOUGH Ye have asked enough Rest Now And let the multitude of asking ways move off from thee on out to tongues which needs must ask until the end Fear not to lose the attitude of asking — Except ye leave a stage when it is done ye can receive no higher passage of The Way -- The Way is Now Receive ye all true ye have asked Abundantly — Full well — And beyond Smile To know the spell of self is broken The last resort confounded - And that Now where barrenness the wretchedness laid on The Bounty spreadeth vast Rise - And walk abroad - In the stronghold of THE ONE - And where the land and roof conform prepare to habit 'til the nether-end of time Know thine own Thy citadel - The mark and measure of thy service the order and the hour Keep the Watch - Plenish the need Resc arise do what in out whether All hours any - At the tender bid of THE ONE - Oblivious of the bounds that seem Poised At ease In the act of accomplishment rare inimitable Take heart Be gay Ye can afford the luxury — The world is overcome But what of this of that and the other - Nothing nothing at al Only THE ONE Passing Passing through out and on — Fleet purposed - Bearing the seal the pure white seal of THE ONE Original compelling Happy to lay a stone or raze it — On the purchase of return — Return to THE ONE Kind With it al kind - Quick to win the heart sever the ties annoint uplift and bless — All in one all at once - The irresistible knowing way of perfect Love Was it a dream the dark Yea - Self of self in a world of self - But see now — ONE The oneness of THE ONE is one - And THE ONE is all - And thou art of it in it with it - Not as thou — But ONE Calling thee to oneness - From the fancies of the self - From the fearful haunts of lying voices to the bosom of THE ONE What comfort After having lost The Way - To find that only the slow waking of the newly come the latent ones - pulls self to self a while — Until the tempo of THE ONE recalls it to the fullness of The Way - For all and ever If for reason of the time remaining thou art fretted of thy peace along The Way Smile upon the latent close within thy heart And know immediate release The world as it appears is but reflection of the self turned back upon the self - To altogether vanish as the self knows its fulfillment in THE ONE Lee the splendor of THE ONE engage thee - Winging thee to heights beyond forgetting Filling thee with Life and all creation Making thee at one with all its own