What Is This Mystery?

Many of you I'm sure
 Have heard the saying that
 Mythology is other people's religions
 Now I am going to ask you
 To put yourself in other people's shoes
 And have a look at your own
 As mythology
 As mythology
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 Nietzsche
 Has said
 "This is the age of comparisons."
 It works on all levels
 And in the realm of
 What I'm calling "mythology", which many people call "religions"
 There are cross-influences
 Operating today
 That would have been thought
 Impossible
 A hundred years ago
 Furthermore, it is good to recall
 To remember
 That our cultures
 And our races
 Are very, very late arrivals
 In the history of the human species
 And we already have
 Very interesting
 Evidence
 Of religious, or mythological practices
 In races long antedating
 Ours
 For instance
 In the high Alps
 There were discovered in the (19)20s
 In
 Very small caves
 Right below
 The ice level of the glaciers
 Little shrines
 Containing the skulls of cave bears
 Now during the course of the last glaciation, the Würmglacial period
 Those caves were covered with ice
 No one could have gone there
 And after The time of that glaciation
 There were no cave bears in the world
 So these little shrines
 With these cave bear skulls
 And little fires
 And
 Little
 Instruments of
 Showing that there had been worship practice there
 Date from 200,000 years ago
 200,000 years ago
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 Each of us
 Has been brought up
 In some tradition
 That has its imagery
 Of that mystery
 But the point I want to
 Start out with
 Is that in the human heart
 And in the human mind
 No matter what
 The race
 The culture
 The language
 The tradition
 There is this
 Sense
 Or at least the possibility of experiencing the sense
 Of a mystery
 And an awesome mystery
 And a very
 Terrifying mystery
 Inhabiting the whole
 Universe
 The very
 Mystery
 Of being
 Itself
 And here in these very early little signs
 These very early shrines
 We have the evidence
 Of man 200,000 years ago
 Bowing
 And asking for something
 And devoting themselves to something
 In this way of religion which we continue
 To know
 In this aspect
 That inflection
 And that other
 Throughout the world today
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 That makes the
 Human species bow
 Before some sign of mystery?
 What is this mystery?
 What is this mystery?