Cosmic Order

This notion that out of death
 Comes life
 Becomes a very important theme
 In the later
 Religions of the world
 "He who loses his life"
 "Shall find it"
 Is a spiritualization
 Of this idea
 Then
 When the
 First cities appear
 In Mesopotamia
 About 3000 B.C
 Large communities grow up
 Based on agriculture
 Planting has to take place at a certain time
 Reaping, a certain time
 And there are professional priests watching the heavens
 To know when those times were
 When those times came
 And those men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 And they calculated and recognized that these planets were moving
 In mathematically inevitable courses
 And the idea came into being
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 Of a cosmic order
 Of mathematical
 Precision
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 The neighbors now
 Were the stars
 And the planets
 On and on
 As the day comes and goes
 The year comes and goes
 The eons come and go
 And the whole society must go into accord
 With that
 This idea that the human society should reproduce
 The heavenly order comes in
 The neighbors now
 Were the stars
 And this
 Still lives with us
 In our religions
 All of our religions have inherited
 This motive
 From the old Babylonian world
 It went out with the higher civilizations
 To India
 To China
 Even across the Pacific
 To Mexico and Peru
 And you see these great towers, these great temple towers
 That represent
 The mountain of the world
 It's the axis of the world around which the world turns
 As it does around the pole star
 The whole world
 And society
 And the individual in it
 Are like the planets
 Moving
 In a great course
 And society
 And the individual in it
 Are like the planets
 Moving
 In a great course
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 Of a cosmic order
 Of mathematical
 Precision
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 The neighbors now
 Were the stars
 And the planets
 Now in the 1920s
 Sir Leonard Woolley, excavating in the graveyards of Ur
 Found graves
 In which there were thirty
 And forty people buried
 All of them in court
 Attire
 Who had been buried
 Alive
 When the King
 Died
 Or was killed
 At a certain time
 In the movement of the planets
 When the Moon goes down
 And the planet Venus along with the Moon
 That was the end of an eon
 The King and his entire court
 Walked
 Into
 The grave
 They were playing
 A game
 Just as the hunters
 Were imitating animals
 Just as the planting people were imitating plants
 So the high civilizations began
 With princely
 Aristocratic
 Little groups
 Imitating the stars
 To the death
 Going all the way
 The whole court, at the end of an eon
 Went in the grave
 So that another court
 Could come
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 Of a cosmic order
 Of mathematical
 Precision
 Men became aware
 Of the movement of the planets
 Through the fixed stars
 The neighbors now
 Were the stars
 And it's a very poetic thing really
 The little girls who played the harps
 We have these harps
 They have been excavated and restored
 These little skeleton hands
 The girls' hands, were still on the harp strings
 The women
 In one of the graves had
 Golden hair ribbons
 One girl didn't have
 Her golden hair ribbon on
 It was found
 In her pocket
 She had been late for the party
 And hadn't had time to put her ribbon on
 Well now, we don't do that anymore
 That kind of action
 Has fallen
 Into desuetude
 Nevertheless
 The king still wears the golden crown of the sun
 The sense has gone yet the poetry somehow
 Echoes