Who Are The Gods?

One of my favorite Gods, Sol Invictus,

the "Unconquered Sun."

Who are the Gods?

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Who are the gods in every culture’s story,

worshipped down the corridors of history?

Even in this modern and scientific time,

an Alien from space can invade the mind.

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Some, like the Celtic Green Man of the tree,

climbs through the forest wild and free;

blows the spirit-wind like Pan all around,

the Piper at the gates of dawn resounds.

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Others are not so enthused with immanence,

and prefer the sky of pure transcendence;

these are the Sun-gods of fire and light,

the shining ones like Mithras and Christ.

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And to this day in each and every home,

the goddess of love still stirs in our bones;

the wine god, Bacchus, continues to quaff,

through us they persist in celebrating life.

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In one way they are our own projection,

an externalization of the imagination;

our sleeping potential, waiting to awaken

to the kiss of an Angel, our higher relation.

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The gods have always been with us inside,

in the orphic egg or "seed of Word" they hide;

whispering their mythological dreams,

symbolic stories that teach a higher Being.

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And so these powerful forces in the psyche,

can download into us divine qualities;

if only we could but make them conscious,

for they can also cause a spiritual psychosis.

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Driven mad by the Sun-flowering mind,

Van Gogh succumbed to the death-wish desire;

he cut off his ear in a suicidal attempt

to silence the Voice that was all in his head.

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Such is the power of Thanatos, lord of death,

call him Yama, Reaper, or Prince of Darkness;

he is the grim spirit of the Holy Ghost,

his role is to destroy and then resurrect.

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Who are these gods we worship and fear?

Into an Alien sky their lights disappear.

Are they our true parental influences,

longing for us our Day of Independence?

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My rendition of a Green Man 
blooming forth the Flower of Mind.
In the Apocalypse of Moses, Adam, on his deathbed, sent Seth
into Paradise to get oil from the Tree of eternal Life, which the Angel
refuses him, but instead gives Seth 3 seeds (in some versions branches
 or herbs) which he put in his father's mouth. A tree grew from Adam's 
grave and its wood was used for the Cross of Christ.
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