This was passed on
to me many years ago and I have consistently enjoyed it. Does anyone
know who wrote it so as to give credit where credit is due??
THE MODERN
ESOTERICIST
I am the very model
of a modern esotericist
A seasoned astral
traveler and edifying exorcist,
A sparkling star
astrologer, a dead adroit necromancer,
A dab hand as a palmist
and a card as a tarotmancer,
I’ve old tradition
lineage from Celtic to Hispanical;
I’ve channeled Dion
Fortune and I’ve busted cults satanical;
Elusively mysterious
in Eleusinian Mysteries,
I’ve disproved ninety-three
percent of Margaret Murray’s histories.
My patent aphrodisiacs
would make a satyr hornier
I’ve manifested unicorns
Southern California.
In short, in matters
magickal, I’m manic as a terrorist;
I am the very model
of a modern esotericist!
I am the very model
of a modern esotericist.
My mystic methodology’s
inherently empiricist!
in I’ve glided over
Glastonbury on broomsticks that I travel on;
I won’t deny the
rumors that I ghost-wrote Mists of Avalon.
A truly great Great
Riter and a master of tantrickery,
I’ve been up the
Shining Pathways til the Guardians are sick of me.
I dazzle neo-Pagans
as I tango round the Wiccan ring
And, miracle of miracles,
I sometimes stop their bickering!
I’ve raised the ghost
of Crowley in a Gnostic Mass invoking in
Sumerian, Bavarian,
Etruscan and Enochian.
I’d sing another
chorus but I must rush to see my therapist;
I am the very model
of a modern esotericist!