EVOLUTION
What
began in the fire
Must conclude with the light.
What
arose in the daytime
Must decline with the night.
The
advent of man
Had
its roots in the apes,
Who
preceded the pagans
As a vine precedes grapes.
Yet
man isn't static
But
proceeds to evolve,
And
from pagan to Christian
Shows greater resolve.
Now
the Christian has passed
The
transcendent has begun,
And
man stands a stage closer
To the Nietzschean superman.
The
Superman is post-human
And
towards him man will tend.
But
his future successor
Is by no means the end.
For
from there to the Superbeing
Is
the stage on the threshold
Of
eventual transcendence
And
escape from the flesh-hold.
Then
globes of pure spirit
Will
expand into space,
Leaving
planets behind them
With never a trace.
And
expansion will lead
To the merging of separateness.
Where
once they were many,
They
will end-up in oneness.