In the midnight of the Ages,In the midnight dark and lone,When the heroes and the sagesIn life’s battle faint had grown;When the world’s great heart was lyingLike a corpse upon its bier,Then, through heaven, a voice went crying“God is near!”
In the midnight of the nations,When the Morning Land was dead,And to woes and lamentationsEarth in agony was wed;Rose a cry of fearful wailingFrom the stormy nether sphere,“Lo! the pagan orb is paling,God is near!”
In the midnight of Earth’s errors,When the serpent’s monstrous head,From its eyes shot lurid terrorsWhile upon her breasts it fed,When the faith in the HereafterHad no prophet, bard, or seer,Rang a voice, through sin’s wild laughter -“God is near!”
Where a virgin, pure, adoring,Worshiped God who reigns above,Came a glorious outburst, pouringFrom Jehovah’s heart of love;And an angel spake, “Hail Maiden;In thy inmost bosom sphereThou with child from Heaven art laden -God is near!”
Through the seraph universesShone a flame of circling light;While dark Hades rang with cursesIt unfolded form and might.Then a Child to earth was given,And He stood beside Earth’s bierCrying loud, “Arise forgiven,God is here!”
As a meteor star that fallethSank the world from out its place;Or a ravished bride that callethFrom a serpent’s loathed embrace;Lo! through storms of lava ashesCame a voice, her heart to cheer,Thundering through the lightning flashes,“God is here!”
Who shall tell the solemn storyOf the Form that God possessed?Of the temples pierced and goryAnd the wounds in feet and breast?All the angels worshipped round HimWhen the bloody cross was near,Crying to the men who bound Him,“God is here!”
In His Love’s transfiguration,When He rose, the world to free,Seen by every angel nationIn DIVINE HUMANITY,All the universe adoringSaw the end of evil near,Crying loud, in one outpouring,“God is here!”
-T.L. Harris
Anthroposophy, Theosophy, Rosicrucian, Paracelsus, Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Science, Esoteric, B.Hive ©
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Hymn of the Incarnation
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