Bless the cup Descend in deep Behind the sea Before the sun Invade the field Of incendiary's doom As the morning star Waft your ash To the mount Allure from herd The tree on hill The pied cow The parable On death of God Excite the spleen Pray for sin Become the fear To the multitude Redeem your blood Laud the fab Melek Tawûsê Despise the thoughts Adam is Made of dust Thus spake Zoroaster The demiurge Of the cosmic egg I was there when Adam was living in Paradise I was there when Nemrud threw Abraham in sparks I was there when God told me: You are the lord on earth God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven Seven holy beings Reincarnated Metempsychosis In system of caste Sacrifice the ox Exogamy Spirit of gravity Shrouded in melancholy Grasped at sweetmeats Ronahî qawls In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet Your enemy shall you seek, your war shall you wage Take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly If your thoughts succumb, there will be immaculate Life eternal, obey the strange Descending the black mount, in concealment I went forth without being observed When rays of sun hit the earth's summit Ecumenic poise of the thousandth eye Embroidering the earth’s mantle Submit the pain to the knowledge of sublime Into the blaze, into the mountain Into the maze, disintegrate into I was running, away from sorrow A trap was set, to another hollow Jaunt of the stupor, all in a capsize Perished all the obeyed known Slumped all into destitute Without a touch of soul Existence is the only word We can see their absence Flowing thoughts and fears False is everything in it, with stolen teeth it bites, the biting one My face did I reclined, all ceased and abandoned, leaving my cares Without light or guide, when none saw me, nor I beheld aught The breeze blew from turret, as I parted his locks, with his gentle hand