# Human — Hierophant

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HUMAN: Am I unworthy of your word?  
You often instruct me  
To take in the changing images of life  
And let them be fertilized  
By the power of words, By the power of words,  
Which you advised me to climb  
The path of light.

HIEROPHANT: Today you have let a piece of life  
Pass over your soul.  
Only one thing should now remain  
Of all the vicissitudes,  
That which has appeared before your eyes.  
Like the play of waves on a deep sea,  
So shall people be to you,  
Rising from the depths of their being.  
And your soul shall sink  
Into this deep foundation.  
You have heard the language of the external.  
Step out of the external  
And hear the language of abundance —  
And you will see,  
How in the depths appears,  
What on the surface  
Ripple so lightly.  
You are as if dead in full life;  
Over the years  
You have come to know fear,  
As even the ordinary mortals  
Do not suspect.  
You have lived through fears  
That would kill some people.  
What is otherwise called life  
With all its striving and rushing,  
With all the joys and deceptions  
Of love and hate,  
What one experiences in terrible strokes of fate,  
It is little compared to  
What your soul goes through  
In the struggle between light and darkness. You have lost your strength,  
You have paralyzed your thinking,  
You have become insensitive —  
And I myself, who have guided you,  
Am often just a human being to you,  
In whom you no longer have the strength to believe.  
But only your powers are asleep,  
And like the sleeping soul  
Refreshes the tired body every day  
With the power of the spirit realm,  
So too are the powers of eternity  
In your paralyzed limbs.  
You shall awaken them,  
And your being will be renewed,  
Your death will be the revealer  
Of your life of light.  
I leave you to yourself.

MAN: He leaves me alone.  
I will live in the echo  
Of his words  
And hope that in my vision  
The powers will awaken  
That must work within me,  
Since they have killed  
What I have possessed until now.