All is cold hard beauty, pain is never done   And we remain clothed in space   Forming from space   Space we come and return   And I saw within the mystery of god   In the midst of the southern breezes   A wondrously beautiful image   It had a human form and it's countenance was of such beauty   That I could have more easily gazed at the sun   Than in that face   For a broad golden ring circled it's head   In this ring above the face there appeared a second countenance   Like that of an elderly man   It’s chin and beard resting on the crown of her first face   And on both sides of the figure a wing grew out of the shoulders   The wings rose above the face and were joined there   Then at the top part of the wing on the curve appeared an eagle's head   Its eyes were like fire and in them the brilliance of angels streamed forth from the mirror   On the part of the left wing's curve there was soothed a human head   Which shone like the gleaming of the stars   Both faces were turned towards the east   And from the shoulders of the figure a wing extended to its knees   The figure was wrapped in a garment that shone like the sun   Its hands carried the lamb which shone like a brilliant day   The figure's feet trod upon a monster of black   A serpent had fastened its teeth into it   And its body was wound around the wound   Its tail extended to the left   It said "I am the highest in fiery power   I have kindled every spark of life   I am it, nothing that is deadly   I decided on all reality   With my wings I fly above this little world   With wisdom have I put the universe in order   I am the fiery life of essence   I am a flame beyond the beauty even of the meadows   It is I who gleam in the waters   It is I that burn in the sun   It is I that burn in the moon   It is I that burn in the stars   With every breeze as with invisible life that contains everything   It is I that awaken every thing to life   The air lives by turning green and being in bloom   And the waters flow as if they were alive   The sun lives in it's light and the moon is enkindled   After it's disappearance once again by the light   Of the sun so that the moon is again revived   The stars too give the light with their beaming   I have established pillars that bear the entire globe   In the same way too the body envelopes the soul   And maintains it so that the soul will never blow away"   And all is cold hard beauty, pain is never done   Never done