Eight: Sacred Science (poetry series)
Sacred Science
The Light is the Light
It is thus, New Ones, young Flowers of the Sun
The This
The Instrument of Inner Tunefulness
Our Helmsman, He our Earth-Names denote
Father-Sage
He Whom the Light Awakened
Is the Helmsman Whom the Light Awakened
As the Ultra of the Nebula Pulsahria
Ordained
And the Teachings that to him were given
Are the Teachings that to him were given
And the Empty who were called to follow
Are the Empty who were called to follow
Now be filled
Kernel-Stars of the Ultra, question nothing
The Lesser, who are falsely filled
Are falsely filled with Love of Earthly Lucre
Keeping ties with lying counsellors
Earth-Bound counsellors who shall not be taken up
On that Day of Great Return
Why (answer this, if you’ve a heart to)
Should lovers, friends, or parents care so much?
Dear Children
Perhaps it is not you, it is your money
But the Helmsman has thought of this
In his nightly Emanations he has not summoned these
Father-Sage, Replenisher, the Helmsman knows
That Which the Helmsman Knows
And knew, when first he sensed your Being
The Atomenes in their billion millennia of Ages
Gain passage through the Flesh of their Former Selves
And when the Light journeys here at last
To Herald the rebuilding of the City
By their faith shall The Tuneful be new-made
(Latest in the Eight series, part one of which is based on Robert J. Lifton’s eight steps to totalitarian thought control, a system first introduced in 1961. In fact, a high degree of control seems obtainable through a type of self-servicing, something the internet has taught us. People are more readily persuaded to “join” a group, even without direct contact, than early students of propaganda might have supposed.)
Sacred Science
Comfortingly
Loaded Language
(2019, Stephanie Foster)