Idris

In the first kingdoms, on the Tigris plain,

And on the Nile, a bezel in the chain
Of prophecy revealed from God the art
Of medicine and writing. A new start
In history: the farming lands gave rise
to cities, and the mapping of the skies.

Idris transmitted the hermetic key

to understand the symbols: man and tree
united in themselves heavens and earth.
The alchemy of opposites gave birth
to gold’s secret of wisdom. He was raised,
to the fourth heaven, sun-like, ever praised.