Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem Gnothi Seauton (1831) is a brief expression of Transcendentalism. While Emerson discusses these ideas at length in his essays, in the poem he compresses them into an argument about the inner life: God is not outside but an immanence in the individual soul; knowing the self is the path to knowing the immanence. The present paper examines the themes of the poem;...