Cosmic Order (feat. Joseph Campbell)

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