Tuesday, November 03, 2009

MARCUS JULIUS AGRIPPA, HEROD AGRIPPA II, LAST KING OF THE JEWS

Since that day when I sat upon the alabaster throne,

Crowned the Messiah, I have served you, Judea;

Elevated on the podium, I accepted the mission,

When Sirius spiralled high out of the invisible

And ordered the Nile to flood.

With me came the new Law, for Jew and Gentile alike.

Venus conjunct with the Sun marked my birth:

The red star rose in the halo of dawn; spring began.

That a renegade prince of a despised clan

Should be chosen to be his people’s saviour-

How else but by God’s will could this occur?


Berenice, my sister-wife, when has the East

Seen your like? When fate combines such beauty

With ambition and guile, then the world should wait

Upon wonders.

                         As Osiris and Isis, we rule

The two realms; through us, all may approach

The divinity within. Let this land be one, at peace,

Where every heart may search its own belief.

For every name and number in the world

The cipher is hidden.

Bull,man,lion and eagle-I am all.


Now is the time for new covenants,

For the noblest philosophy to guide the state

And reveal to humankind its true nature.

To that end, I will bend my actions hard

And force enlightenment upon the unwilling.

The sacrificial ram stands ready

Beneath the tamarisk tree, fruiting with letters

And numbers, and the four rivers flow

Through a new Eden’s cube.

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