Oh Nicholas, Oh Nicholas!
Does the flame still consume you?
Or have you long since become like water or air?

Oh Nicholas, Oh Nicholas!
How skillful and clever you are!
Not even the Inquisition could find you!
Until the day they seized you!

Oh Nicholas, Oh Nicholas!
John and James ever at your side!
More loyal hounds none could ask for!
Was it the Gottesfreunde who told you to no longer hide?

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Nicholas of Basel was a German mystic and member of the Berghard community. He was burnt at the stake by the Inquistion; the charge was heresy. Nicholas was a Heathen.

"Follow not the false light of Christ, oh you who would not become lost. This is a dark light that will blind you to the true heavenly home among our ancestors."
-Nicholas of Basel