And lie the links in regular line
though haply none the sequence see.

The Ghost, embodied natural Dread
of dreary death and foul decay,
Begat the Spirit, Soul and Shade
with Hades' pale and wan array.

The Soul required a greater Soul,
a Soul of Souls, to rule the host;
Hence spirit-powers and hierarchies,
all gendered by the savage Ghost.

Not yours, ye Peoples of the Book,
these fairy visions fair and fond,
Got by the gods of Khemi-land*
and faring far the seas beyond!

* Egypt; Kam, Kem, Khem (hierogl.), in the Demotic Khemi.

"Th' immortal mind of mortal man!"
we hear yon loud-lunged Zealot cry;
Whose mind but means his sum of thought,
an essence of atomic "I."

Thought is the work of brain and nerve,
in small-skulled idiot poor and mean;
In sickness sick, in sleep asleep,
and dead when Death lets drop the scene.