Mankind, in his yearning to know
The will Divine, has devised many methods –
The haruspex of the Romans
Read the entrails of the birds;
The Greeks hurried to Delphi to hear
From the maiden on Apollo’s chair;
The Native American shamans
Had their trances and spirit walks;
The houses of the Zodiac
Controlled the lives of sky-gazers.
Modern scientific man
Mocks the idea of the omnipotent God
But then mocks himself when he turns
To something as mundane as the weather.
For what the meteorologist proclaims
From the satellite gods on high
Is received as an unchangeable decree,
As fixed as Fate, to be endured
With no hope for mitigation.
Have they not heard of Joshua,
Who stopped the sun from setting?
. . .
The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/modern-oracles/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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