Apology of the Sage of
Eden
It universe is not like
the City of Man, proud human,
you who think your
harshness, cruelty that knows no
mercy is the norm among
the stars: unlike your walls
the worlds are not devoid
of love and life, of holy grace.
That you should turn
towards God, be the vessel of
good things, be steward
and co-creator: for this the Lord
filled you with His
Spirit, and made an eternal covenant
with you, as if you were
His equal, a friend and brother.
But you chose and choose
each day to not be like Him,
but surpass and excel the
perfect and the excellent God,
supplant Him (what
folly!), topple Him from the throne
and sit yourself upon
heaven from the earth you never left.
Yet take, and hold the
heavy scepter, and remember
in one instant of our
governance without divine grace
we decreed for self and
generations disease and death,
and allowed into world
sin’s entry through the serpent.
How good it is we were
never gods, for we would be harsh
deities, without
compassion, such that no flower could ever
live, for lack of sun and
water. Death would be our sport,
life a rarity, if ever
writ and cared for, the worlds would be bare.
To the begging mother,
sick and barren, we would hurl
answer in miscarriage. To
the beggar, cold and hungry,
we would cause each one to
pass without notice as the
street filled with dirty
snow: so vicious would be our reign.
We would not know how to
love as God so loves the world,
our hearts have not yet
learned even angelic concern and
care. We would fast get
tired, let the universe wreck itself,
some fatal error to make
all good wilt: for to err is human.
But to correct is divine,
to love and serve, to hope and
forgive is good and Godly:
to remember one’s promise
in spite of endless spite
and infidelity, and self turn from
problem into answer, that
is to seek the Holy Perfect One.
Then, I hope, we shall
submit and cling to our Master,
the good and understanding
Teacher, be not the god we
never can be, but the
people we were meant to be:
a priestly nation, first
in Creation, the People of Life.