Had he, who was once rapt to the “Third Heaven”,
Projected his Adam Kadmon (the Self)
Onto a gardener not a carpenter
Or, given Yeshu’s glaring green credentials,
Declared him to be not the Second Adam
But the First chastened, penitent and pardoned,
The Literalists would have forgotten Zion,
The Gnostics their detested Demiurge,
The Romans their ruse of deifying kings,
Pagans their practice of reifying gods,
And Earth would still be sacred, green and whole.
Jerusalem
26 March 2000