Winds from the East by Talbot Mundy

Author:Talbot Mundy [Mundy, Talbot]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Ariel Press
Published: 2012-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Oyez!

From The Theosophical Path, July 1924

They threw a tinker into Bedford jail lest wiseheads should be troubled by his tongue;

They burned the Maid of Orleans to still the voice forever that she claimed to hear;

They gave the hemlock draught to Socrates to drown disturbing truths he taught the young;

They slew Hypatia to kill such courage as makes cowards fear;

They burned the Prophet’s books and said: ‘Hence- forth we make a better law from day to day’;

They said: ‘The past is dead and cannot trouble us again, if we forget.

The moment is the goal. There is no higher law that unseen truths obey;

If we but bury consequences deep enough the cause dies too.’ And yet—

They saw the pebble thrown into the pool and

watched the unprevented ripples spread;

They calculated cycles of eclipse and timed Orion rising in the sky;

They bragged of a heredity from ancestors a dozen generations dead;

Then tried to take the cash and let the debit go and failed—and wondered why.

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