Of the many things we lost as a result of the fall of man, one of the most devastating and limiting is the quietus of divine manhood, the death of the real man. The original descent and demise was described allegorically early in the Bible as a self-induced ejection from the "garden" planted "eastward in …
We are too much of this world, then and now,Trading birthrights for messes of pottage;Forsaking true intercourse for frottage,Dominion lost in domination’s dow!The sea of glass churned by earth-tiller’s plough,Crystal no more but occluded by flotage;Vision enclosed by walls of man’s plottage,We labor in vain and strain for the soughOf good news. – Rise up! …
Gregory Hake 