Control:
Displayed in
Man’s manipulations
With human hands.
Output of human minds
(The work of human hands)
Extolled by humans blind.

Minds controlling
Hands have many gods
Of human making.
Products of human thinking –
Produced by human lies.
Such products I despise.

By hands can man
Kill, or consecrate;
Can feel, or masturbate;
Can shield, or shelter
What is his own.

Hands can be there
With gentle caresses,
To care;
Hands can make;
Can channel;
Can awake
One to his folly.
Hands make what?
The worker works –
Hands make money.
Artist expresses,
And thus creates
Feelings by which
One relates to
Universe unknown:
The universe
Of mind.

Before the hand
Can create,
The mind has
Created.
By hands can man
Exteriorize his
Thoughts.
He can express,
He can be taught,
And he can teach
What by hands he
Knows, and by
What he shows
Unto the world.

Hands may create
Idle images,
Of idols and kings –
Earthly things –
To which homage
May be paid
In hope of
Better days.

Unknowingly idolatrous persons
Whose idols are but dispersions
Of human thoughts and greeds,
And purely worldly needs:

Such men know not
The innate admiration
They bear for their
Own creations;
Nor the needs and necessities
For Spirit’s growth.

Knowing not does not
Make them innocent:
They are ignorant,
Not for lack of knowledge,
But for desires, misguided
Unto earthly things.
Carved god beings.
Printed fiscal fiends.