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What can I know? I'm a being on this earth Truths and myths are all around They've haunted me since birth But what is knowing and what's myth? These myths are sacred and profane They blend together like the clouds And fall as steady rain What of myths about knowingness - as the Gnostics do believe? Flawed men by a flawed creator Is what you're likely to achieve The Demiurgos is a painter who painted all we see Though imperfect, it is beautiful, and your will is always free Life - it's true - is suffering from birth until the grave None escape this fate - from king to pet or slave Still we exist in something Dissolving on God's tongue In this confusion of a pantheon Our spark must weigh a ton Free me, Lord, from ignorance Though you can only do so much Enlightenment is knowledge Which is still up to us Integrity is essential For society and for each man All in all considering I'll do just what I can This life is temporary and I will not learn enough But with higher light from messengers I might just break these bonds And be lifted from this situation - freedom from rebirth - To live as one eternally upon a heaven earth For now I must admit that so much is in my mind As above it's so below - from within here to all outside Jesus Christ and sweet Sophia went through - they were tested, too Everything they were is in you - do unto as they do What can I know? I have been chasing it since birth The spirit is within me It's all across the earth
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
Gnostic Poem
What can I know? I'm a being on this earth Truths and myths are all around They've haunted me since birth But what is knowing and what's myth? These myths are sacred and profane They blend together like the clouds And fall as steady rain What of myths about knowingness - as the Gnostics do believe? Flawed men by a flawed creator Is what you're likely to achieve The Demiurgos is a painter who painted all we see Though imperfect, it is beautiful, and your will is always free Life - it's true - is suffering from birth until the grave None escape this fate - from king to pet or slave Still we exist in something Dissolving on God's tongue In this confusion of a pantheon Our spark must weigh a ton Free me, Lord, from ignorance Though you can only do so much Enlightenment is knowledge Which is still up to us Integrity is essential For society and for each man All in all considering I'll do just what I can This life is temporary and I will not learn enough But with higher light from messengers I might just break these bonds And be lifted from this situation - freedom from rebirth - To live as one eternally upon a heaven earth For now I must admit that so much is in my mind As above it's so below - from within here to all outside Jesus Christ and sweet Sophia went through - they were tested, too Everything they were is in you - do unto as they do What can I know? I have been chasing it since birth The spirit is within me It's all across the earth
michael-bauer
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
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