The Master

Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea

having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the hill into

the valley. For he had business in his own home.

And kneeling on the flint stones of the Valley of Desolation he saw

a young man who was naked and weeping. His hair was the colour of

honey, and his body was as a white flower, but he had wounded his

body with thorns and on his hair had he set ashes as a crown.

And he who had great possessions said to the young man who was