Mystery of Mysteries

by John Herlihy

We live with myriad mysteries

We live with one vast mystery

With live our lives in mystery

Mystery hidden behind a veil

All the mystery soon unveiled

Certainty will lift away the veil

We know nothing of the hour

We know only the hour is near

To know the day and the hour

The last day, the hour of rising

Of reckoning and accounting

The day that is forthcoming

Then we will come to know

Truth of the unknown, there

In the knowledge of certainty

See through into the invisible

See all that is unseen, there

In the divine eye of certainty

Once deaf, dumb and blind

Now the ear you hear with

The clear mind you know with

The opened eye you see with

Touched by the divine hand

That you now can touch with

You ask about the Holy Spirit

This you will never fully know

You ask about the life to come

This life you will come to know

All knowledge to be fully known

Trust and certainty to be fully felt

The Master of all humanity

Living God of all that breathes

I seek protection of the Lord

From an arch-evil whisperer

Who whispers untold evils

Into the heart of humanity

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Thursday 25 December 2025