Eternal Recurrence

ETERNAL RECURRENCE* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Once upon a time, The Lord of spiritual consciousness was sitting peacefully on His blissful throne Ceaselessly contemplating upon His equilibrium T’ was the era of no moon, no sun, no stars, no earth, no oceans, no rivers Just a motionless, timeless and deathless entity it was happy with His existence 2. Suddenly the thought of sacred motion was felt deep down in his essence Seeking the chaos to be stirred from its core outwardly Consequently separating the light from the darkness and all the other elements That constitute the Cosmos Thus giving birth immediately to old mighty time 3. When Time: This wizard of celestial art found himself alive His expert hands stretched in advance, wanting to create For that the plastic energy he took, that was everywhere around And skillfully and patiently the Cosmos carved according to the Logos Creating thus, the nebulae, the galaxies, the stars and all the other planets 4. Then God looked at times creation and marveled with its beauty But as there was no life to be seen in all of this creation The thought of desire was born in God to inhabit every place For that out of himself he cut myriads blazing souls Which like shooting stars he sent downwards to animate nature, 5. In this way, to manifestation’s cosmic sphere, the souls were beamed Radiating their luminosity to reality’s lower planes Bringing with them the sacred principles to denser forms of life As they were passing from the spiritual, the mental and the astral And finally materializing, themselves on the physical solid plane Where life began on earth, with God’s will and grace! 6. Each soul an ambassador was and is of God’s will and grace A ray of divinity, a guardian of the Holy Law Each with a specific mission: to learn or rather to remember How to find the way of return throughout space and time And with the divine, again, to be seen in perfect equilibrium 7. The day I was born, as every man alive, I found my immortal self bound to the wheel of time That around eternity’s circumference took me, in very heavy chains Asking to follow obediently the unswerving path of fate: This endless trip of return where the only constant thing is change 8. Since then I have died once and many times after But death's dark palaces to hold me were unable As my soul’s perpetual desire to follow my destiny Brought me back to this ephemeral world of fleeting dreams With a new body, new hopes, new goals but always with the Same desire 9. Thus I journeyed back and forth the plains of oblivion Choosing the best conditions I could, according to my karma Trying to find endlessly the golden middle way That unmistakably between the extremes is only to be found But since from the river of forgetfulness each time I was drinking I was obliged, unfortunately, to start over again 10. So, I was born once a king and another was I born a beggar And in turns I was born a coward, a hero, a holy man, a vicious man, A Christian, a Muslim, an atheist, an idolater a strong man and a woman And healthy and sick I was born and intelligent and witless And was I born to love so much the things I once detested And to hate passionately the things I once held dear 11. And I was born once to laugh and another just to cry And I drunk successively from joy’s cup and that of sorrow’s And was born to make friends out of my enemies And enemies out of my brothers And was born to realize the impossible dreams and fail the very easy And I was born to slay and to be slain alternatively for thousands of years 12. Thus I lived continuously the extremes of both good and evil Striving to find endlessly the balance in my soul Through the wisdom that was endowed upon me by the Great Spirit That like a beacon, luminous, to guide me waits To my supreme destiny that GOD for me has traced 13. So, as was passing from life unto death, from darkness unto light With a speed determined by me, I don’t put on GOD the blame, All my lessons have I learned through trial and error Up to the very last reincarnation, in body’s mortal temple 14. Now free, AT LAST, from all earthly desires and every karmic blame Radiating with holiness and glowing with grace My immortal soul, HER divine wings unfolds and soars upwards the heavens White light blazing in perfect equilibrium And pure now to her glorious creator returns and with HIM UNITES! ©Demetrios Trifiatis 11 DECEMBER 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A little while and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body. A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind and another woman shall bear me” KAHLIL GIBRAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This poem because of its length I was unable to post it in one piece for I was not a member for life at that time therefore I published it in two parts as: “CREATION” and as “REINCARNATION.” Here is the entire poem as it was originally written. Now, my friends know that apart from my epigrams I write... long poems as well!