Tuesday, 2 October 2012

THE DEVIL MYTH [a poem]

The Church Fathers, taking the idea from the Jewish Pharisees
Made devils of the pagan gods, Mithras, Serapis, and others deities
And the Roman Catholic Church, in its blindness
Denounced former worships as commerce with the powers of darkness      

Up till then, magic in all ancient times
Had been considered as divine science,
As wisdom, and the knowledge of God
To bring healing, and to be used for good

Ignorance was enthroned as the mother of devotion
And the people end up being ruled through emotion
Learning was denounced, and philosophers pursued
The sciences in peril of their lives, if sued   

The votaries of the ancient worship and priestcraft         
Were persecuted and put to death on charges of witchcraft.
For the Church, there was no distinction
Between witchcraft, heresy and opposition  

Of all the various learned nations of antiquity
None was ever guilty of such a crowning absurdity
Not even the ancient Jews, believed in hell for evil
Or an eternal damnation any more than a Devil

There is no great enemy of God
Arraigned in battle against the good
There is only suffering, erring humanity,
Struggling to bring normality

The forces of evil are, in the last analysis,
The entrenched ancient ideals and practices
Of thought which have served their purpose in evolution
In bringing the race to its present point of manifestation

But which must now disappear or retired 
If the New Age is to be ushered in as desired
The old forms of religion, politics and social order
Must give place to newer ideals in the new world order.

When will man, the victim of his desires and evil
Triumph over the world, the flesh and the devil?
It is brought about when the man in incarnation
Is one with his soul and knows no more separation

EDGEBA

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