The Hour Has Begun

Perhaps I knew thee ere all life began

Or when time commenced its endless caravan,

For surely love predates the stars, the sun,

And by its force God's labour was begun

And surely shall we see the leap from man

As once a consciousness awoke in stone.

The earth knew then she laboured not alone

And slowly grew the life-force in the plant,

The Sun her paramour and procreant,

Though lingered yet behind the God unknown.

Then came the advent of the beast and bird

And music from a silver flute was heard

Amid the rumble and the thrill of breath

And joy so briefly found, so quickly death,

But on the fragrant breeze an occult Word,

The promise of a greater light appeared

And man stood up, the heavenly choir neared

To chant the odes of wonder and to hymn

The songs of cherubim and seraphim

Marking the advent of the charioteer

Who brings to earth the radiant inner Sun

To fill our souls with visions of the One

And by this Holocaust of God for man

Create the bridge to cross to superman.

The time is now, the hour has begun.