I Am Only the House of Your Beloved
I Am Only the House of Your Beloved - meaning Summary
Beloved as Spiritual Source
The poem distinguishes between outward forms and the true beloved: the speaker is merely a container, not the treasure. True love aims at the unique, transcendent presence who is both origin and destiny. That beloved governs inner states, is independent of time, and whose will transforms bodies into spirit. The poem points to union with a singular divine or ultimate beloved whose presence dissolves ordinary expectations and changes being itself.
Read Complete Analyses“I am only the house of your beloved, not the beloved herself: true love is for the treasure, not for the coffer that contains it.” The real beloved is that one who is unique, who is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, you’ll no longer expect anything else: that is both the manifest and the mystery. That one is the lord of states of feeling, dependent on none; month and year are slaves to that moon. When he bids the “state,” it does His bidding; when that one wills, bodies become spirit.
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