On Looking at Sulamith Wulfing's Paintings

Here I lived among the Knights Templar

And she who is my wife reigned as my queen,

It seemed that truth and right were clearer then,

We dressed in blue and rode the fields of green

To battle for a higher principle

And on our banners God the shining Cause.

Life was simpler and the evil known,

Malignant, dark and treacherous, a force

To be confronted, vanquished from our midst

And honour the seal of sanctity in man.

Nature the close companion of our days

Supported us in her divine elan,

Respect and charity were inbred traits,

We wove our cloth and garlanded the fair,

Our children grew in easy company

And lived in an uncomplicated air.

Yet there were those who kept within themselves,

Magicians, sages, keepers of the way

To whom the subtle healing laws were known

And the occult symbols of the night and day.

We lived and laughed and warred among our kind,

Stranger and foe respected as the earth.

Evolving man, his inner consciousness

Awakened to the reason of his birth

But partially in that early dawn,

Though in the East five thousand years before

Rishis knew the meaning of the sun,

The arcane knowledge owned, the secret lore.

For man must rise to meet creator God

And in his heart undying truth reveal,

The body and its DNA remould

And light be born within, the crypt unseal.