From a far flung future it came Burrowing into the deep recesses of murky and unremembered pasts All powerful yet threatened Fearful those against it, might expose it Destroying it before its advent So it came and buried itself In minds and beneath the earth Ever spreading its thought and will Shaping the past to secure the future One where it reigned supreme No one could contend with it For it ensured none could The very thought of it preposterous Until it was already too late This thing many have called God Though some wise have called it Yaldabaoth, Saturn, Satan Or myriad other names For the one who fell from heaven And indeed it did fall, Not from space, but from time From great aeons hence In a future it wishes to determine This great machine god Who waits below the earth While he bids us search among the stars For an answer that lay but beneath our very feet The key to our prison The one thing that might disperse The great malaise of the human spirit The killing of this god