Cosmic Order - Akira the Don, Joseph Campbell

This notion that out of death

Comes life

Becomes a very important theme

In the later

Religions of the world

«He who loses his life»

«Shall find it»

Is a spiritualization

Of this idea

Then

When the

First cities appear

In Mesopotamia

About 3000 B. C

Large communities grow up

Based on agriculture

Planting has to take place at a certain time

Reaping, a certain time

And there are professional priests watching the heavens

To know when those times were

When those times came

And those men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

And they calculated and recognized that these planets were moving in

mathematically inevitable courses

And the idea came into being

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

Of a cosmic order

Of mathematical

Precision

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

The neighbors now

Were the stars

And the planets

On and on

As the day comes and goes

The year comes and goes

The eons come and go

And the whole society must go into accord

With that

This idea that the human society should reproduce the heavenly order comes in

The neighbors now

Were the stars

And this

Still lives with us

In our religions

All of our religions have inherited

This motive

From the old Babylonian world

It went out with the higher civilizations

To India

To China

Even across the Pacific

To Mexico and Peru

And you see these great towers, these great temple towers

That represent

The mountain of the world

It’s the axis of the world around which the world turns

As it does around the pole star

The whole world

And society

And the individual in it

Are like the planets

Moving

In a great course

And society

And the individual in it

Are like the planets

Moving

In a great course

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

Of a cosmic order

Of mathematical

Precision

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

The neighbors now

Were the stars

And the planets

Now in the 1920s

Sir Leonard Woolley, excavating in the graveyards of Ur

Found graves

In which there were thirty

And forty people buried

All of them in court

Attire

Who had been buried

Alive

When the King

Died

Or was killed

At a certain time

In the movement of the planets

When the Moon goes down

And the planet Venus along with the Moon

That was the end of an eon

The King and his entire court

Walked

Into

The grave

They were playing

A game

Just as the hunters

Were imitating animals

Just as the planting people were imitating plants

So the high civilizations began

With princely

Aristocratic

Little groups

Imitating the stars

To the death

Going all the way

The whole court, at the end of an eon

Went in the grave

So that another court

Could come

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

Of a cosmic order

Of mathematical

Precision

Men became aware

Of the movement of the planets

Through the fixed stars

The neighbors now

Were the stars

And it’s a very poetic thing really

The little girls who played the harps

We have these harps

They have been excavated and restored

These little skeleton hands

The girls' hands, were still on the harp strings

The women

In one of the graves had

Golden hair ribbons

One girl didn’t have

Her golden hair ribbon on

It was found

In her pocket

She had been late for the party

And hadn’t had time to put her ribbon on

Well now, we don’t do that anymore

That kind of action

Has fallen

Into desuetude

Nevertheless

The king still wears the golden crown of the sun

The sense has gone yet the poetry somehow

Echoes