It is written, ”In the beginning was the Word.
How soon I’m stopped! Who’ll help me to go on?
I cannot concede that words have such high worth
and must, if properly inspired,
translate the term some other way.
It is written: “In the beginning was the Mind.”
Reflect with care upon this first line,
and do not let your pen be hasty!
Can it be mind that makes all operate?
I’d better write: “In the beginning was the Power!”
Yet, even as I write this down,
something warns me not to keep it.
My spirit prompts me, now I see a solution
and boldly write: “In the beginning was the Act.”
-Goethe, Faust
Sweeter words have never been written,
nor uttered from the lips of mortals.
Yet, in truth doth they cut through the haze,
And lay to waste our delusions so barren.
- I.A.T.
