No One Warning Faustus

You need to be predictive
To claim you have a theory,
Not just another story.

Prediction is the magic.
Prediction only a few
Can do is esoteric

Power, threatening magic.
So be well advised. Predict
What you can, but make it clear

How you’ve reached your predictions.
Don’t be tempted to play priest
Of the unfathomable,

Mystic hierophant of weird,
Inscrutable truths no one
But you can command at will.

It works well for a short while,
But once you’re made a magus,
You’re a magus all the way.

You’re a target for a king
Or for peasants with pitchforks.
Next thing you know, you’re burning.

We should point out, by the way,
That we’ve reached this prediction
By ragged observations,

So we wouldn’t count on it
Actually happening. Just
A theory. Still. Be careful.