The Hermetic Tradition

Tom and I cut the hearts from Pharaohs
in the dust of day
We have been too lenient
We have been too understanding
And while I would like this six-inch blade
excavated out by Nag Hammadi...
"Why do you suppose the sphinx has those erosion marks at the base?"
She will rip you apart
I have seen it
What do you know about amulets,
the ones they lost by the whale?
We were willing to dig
Were you?
(Tom just shrugs because he already knew about the whale)
But Sidney came crawling all the way through the desert
just to let us know that without daring men remain small
"More to the point, who is this Tehuti?
I don't get it."
About that, we must remain Silent