4

4 IS THE NUMBER OF LIFE AND DEATH,

4 RUNES IN ENDLESS SPIRALS,

ARE BEGINNING, DESTINY, FATE AND END

OF MAN’S BODY AND SOUL.

4 ARE THE DIRECTIONS,
FROM WHICH THE WIND CARRIES THE DUST,
4 THE NUMBER OF THE ELEMENTS,
FROM WHICH WE ARE SPAWNED,
AND TO WHICH WE RETURN AT THE END OF DAYS.

IT IS THE ORIGINAL NUMBER,

THE NUMBER OF THE KIN

FATHER,

MOTHER,

SON AND DAUGHTER.

IT IS THE NUMBER OF THE SEASONS,

OF MAN AND EARTH.

FOUR-FOLD ARE THE SIDES OF

THE SOLAR CROSS.

IT IS THE NUMBER OF THE RIVERS
UPON WHICH LIFE DRAWS.
EARTH – HE DID NOT CREATE IT AS A WASTELAND BUT AS A HOMESTEAD;
SONS IT RAISED AND EXALTED;
BUT DEAF TO ITS COMMANDS
THEY WENT THEIR WAY.

AND IT SAID:

“MANKIND, YOU’VE STRUGGLED WITH ALL THOSE WORDS OF ADVICE;

LET THEM STEP UP AND SAVE YOU:

THE STARGAZERS, THE SKY CONJURORS WHO PROPHESIZE DOOM TO YOU

WITH EVERY NEW MOON!”

AND IT AWOKE

EARTH,

SUN,

MOON AND STARS,

TO PUNISH MANKIND.

EINSTEIN HAS FALLEN, NEWTON HAS BEEN BENT;
FALSE GODS TO STRAP UNTO BEASTS OF BURDEN;
IN THE CITIES, TORN AND DESECRATED.

4 IS THE NUMBER OF THE RIDERS
AND THEY HERALD DOOM,
AS THERE ARE 4 MASTERS
OF IMMORTALITY,
SO CLOSE TO EARTH,
BIDING THEIR TIME IN DAMP CHAMBERS

BUT THEY WILL AWAKE WITH TRUE INTENTION,

TO BUILD THE CITY, IT SAID,

4-SIDED LIKE A PYRAMID.

AND IN ITS SHADOWS
TRUTH WILL THRIVE.

ALPHA AND OMEGA,

BEGINNING AND END,

LIFE AND DEATH