Needy Humankind

Since the dawn of time when primitive man
became fully aware of his own presence and
consciousness he has been bemused and
fearful of the transience of life. A potion,
a natural spring with magical powers,
some mystical plant feverishly sought to
confer the beneficence of life everlasting,
recognized as confined to the privilege of
the heavenly-reigning Gods with their
impenetrable hierarchy of mystery, regality,
mischief and worshipful demands of
subservient, obsequious humankind.

Finally, it was understood that a panoply
of gods was but a naive human invention
born of desperate need to believe in omniscience
and the omnipotence of a divine being under
whose direction nature herself shuddered.
That need to understand the phenomena, and
attributes of the physical and spiritual, of
the natural world. Since then the knowledge of
faith incarnate has revealed salvation to be realized,
and with it, the ongoing life of the soul, courtesy of
the selflessly altruistic act of sublime sacrifice.