The Prologue

I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

Wherefore, O men of Athens,

I say to you

Therefore, acquit me or not

But whichever you do

I shall never alter my ways

Never adjust my approach to this maze

Never reform til the end of my days

Even if I have to die many times.

God is apprehended by imagination, intuition, reason, touch, opinion,

sense, and name

(And so on)

While on quite the other hand, we find we can't begin to

Understand him, so to some it seems a shame

To go on

But he is all things in all

And he is nothing in any

He is often found in one thing small

Conversely, he is often missed in many.

God almighty has made our rulers mad

God almighty has turned our people bad

For the German nobility, with typical agility,

Have so applied their skill at egregious laws

That the people are lead astray; they feel beholden to obey

It may be just the German way, but God, it gives one pause.

The rise of man...

The decline of Rome...

Was natural...

And inevitable...

Man is so levitable!

Instead of inquiring

Why Rome was destroyed...

Instead of admiring

Man's filling of the void,

We should rather We should rather

be surprised be surprised

That God had man so tyrannized

That Rome remained so strong

...Man will be strong

So long. So long.

What...

Is noble

Nowadays?

Atheistic existential-

Ism which I represent is

More coherent - I do believe it...

Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...

There is no such thing as human

Nature, not in all or few men,

Since there is no God to conceive it...

Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am.

I know that I am not a category

I am not a thing--a noun

I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process--

An integral function of the universe.

So high

In my

Lovely Ivory Tower of Babel (babble, babble, babble,

Babble, babble, babble, babble) high above the

Rabble (Rabble, rabble, rabble,

Babble, Rabble, babble, babble, rabble, babble)

Greatest mind of history

Solving life's sweet mystery

So listen to me (so listen to me)

Know how life should be (know how life should be)

Oh, what does it matter if they don't agree?

(chaotic singing of each verse in unison)

Ah, ah, ah, ah......