À quatorze ans …Après des mois de ténèbres intérieures j'ai eu soudain et pour toujours la certitude que n'importe quel être humain, même si ces facultés naturelles sont presque nulles, pénètre dans ce royaume de la vérité réservée au génie, si seulement il désire la vérité et fait perpétuellement un effort d'attention pour l'atteindre.1
Prologue
Were I to tell today to you today,
You’d find your self bereft of sanctity,
For none can speak and truth convey thereby--
The sacred is to know apart from all.
My mind’s a blast that rends and brakes the earth,
It speaks a shatt’ring with a singeing tongue.2
Be still ye small and hear it spoke wherefrom
Your whence and wither are become to you.3
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I leave the temple where the pillars leave,
On branching way from column’d branch’s sway,
A sacred route away from where they root.
The outer court was filled with emerald blades,
The inner moves Davidic seed to green.4
The courts within once giv’n to flame and smoke,
Consum’d by thundry words from pillar’d clouds,
And then made pure with blood and wat’ry drops.5
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Within you see that earth and circling sky
Conspired to house their num’rous progeny;
We are inversions of eternity,
Our clay surrounds a firmament within.
Not offspring but a kindred to our source,
A father’s son is brother to his sire.
There never was created element;
We always were and always will we be.
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As Kings we are with Queens who make us so,
A priestly race with starry come and go.
The light we knew because we knew ourselves.
Beyond were two who’d learned and became one
The twofold One Who gave us to below,
So as to draw the good from out the dark.
I will tell out the rest I came to know,6
And typify the godly path for man.7
הׇשׇׂטׇ֖ן8
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There once was darkness when I foundered by,
Afore I reached the fanum9 in the wood,
T’was ‘ere I knew the sylvan τέμενος,10
A world apart from sacredest 11קֹדֶשׁ,
In there, alone, and without guide, half lost;12
Was I the sport of some malignant power,13
Or set upon by native ignorance?
For wisdom’s lack a darkness thick upbraids.14
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From highest point my mind was down a hill,
A prey to weak’ning thoughts and frozen tongue.
My foe unseen goes to and fro throughout;
From up to down among superiors.15
Like spotted, maned, or lupine predator,16
That marv’lous power seized on this suppliant.
O baneful wrath to myriad hero souls,17
How can you seem a thing to me but small?18
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The awful sprite impelled me thus to leave:19
“Away, away” the clamor doubly rang,
“Be ye apart from this entire grove.”20
T’was speech as fallen as its source, like to
An agéd man in rural weed bedecked,21
Who once of royal breed and seemly clad,22
For treachery cast out from natal court:
Affixed in cold, inverted ‘gainst his home.23
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His words, like lightning falling out the sky,24
Hung ‘round my neck like chains of adamant:
First light as flax then strengthened cords to bind.25
His countenance was threefold now, though once
So beautiful.26 The trait’rous face is two
And self-exalting pride gave yet one more,
With such his maw could thrice the sinner gnaw.27
Unto this three the twofold One gave me.
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“Thou art but man” said he whom now I saw.
“Not much more than what grows within this place:
Like foliage put forth and fallen off,28
A poor and solitary lot are ye.29
As one cast out whose burden once was light,
Now re-attained by signs and words secret,30
I you reclaim from gods unknown and not;
Go forth and give thy people to themselves.”31
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Such out loud vaunt gave freight of pain to me,32
In truth, myself I trow, two suns I saw,33
The one a light from oil besmeared upon34
A son ordained to rise up as the morn;
But here with me a lesser son deprived
Of rays, ‘cept those that sprout from taurine heads,35
Not suffering nor doing quietude,36
He’s mis’rable in deed and suffers weak.37
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For all his heat and flow’r he knew me not;
To me as to us all was giv’n to search
Into and contemplate the dark abyss
To broad eternity and th’ utmost Heav’n:
‘Tis time and careful, solemn, pond’rous thought
That with experience can find them out;
Thou must commune twofold to save thy soul.38
I knew myself so armed and gave reply.
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“Art thou to me a brother or brethren?39
You thrice persuade me ‘gainst the twofold one?
‘Haps wist ye not that I40 complete the will
That called this self and spake thereto from heav’n?41
Thy hateful gifts I honor worth a hair,42
Ye speak to me and hide another mind:
Hateful to me beyond the gates unseen.”43
Spake I, myself; to me replied the three:
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“What is this man who magnifies himself?44
‘Haps know ye not ye thrice yourself as me?
To seven-fold he makes himself as though
A god he’d be; he seven ‘selves’ invokes
To hold his ground ‘fore me within this place.
If god ye be then off’ring take of me:
To make amends by countless ransom I
Will count to you a votive gift renowned:”45
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“See seven bowls, three footed each,46 to fill
With oblate flow to sanctify thy flock.
Perhaps not for communal drink this gift
Is best employed; so maidens seven47 place
Thereon to utter hazy oracles.
As muse helpmeet a lady ‘lect ye out
To scribe48 and teach thy sacred song while ye
Will shepherd seven cities49 ‘round a mount.”50
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So spake he over whom the heavens wept.51
And wept I too to see him and his gait:
This one who’d gift to me a cov’nant cup
Tells out with halting step exile praeceps52
Begun: from sweetly sacred limen snatched
Then, like the setting sun, a daylong fall.53
A staggered shame to he whose serpentine
Posture devises death to them who live.54
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With snakish twist his crooked step concealed;
He, undulate in stance, with sanguine glance,
His countenance a crested hood aloft,55
Insinuates immense volum’nous neck.56
He hissing licks with quiv’ring tongue his mouth57
That plied the sounding air with false essay.58
With limbs distorted sick by ancient fate,59
Enclosed in serpent mien continued he:
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“Like things forthwith will all be giv’n to you,60
Such worthy gifts for leaving cholic by,61
Imbue, my child, the willing with a strength:62
Abate ye now from evil-planning strife.63
Within this copse awaits a foe most grand64
Beyond where now we stand; the nature of
His strength unknown, upheld by chance or fate,65
His wrath inflames ‘midst vocal suppliants.”66
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Pretending grace th’ infernal child feigned,
His love for me inverted as was he:
Behold, a worse than money-love67 is he!68
‘A pow’r divine made me’69 says he but O
Was two-fold Justice, one with Wisdom,70 sang:
“numquam deus poterat creare.”71
With all hope lost upon my ent’ring here72
By harsher speech I moved to cast him out:73
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“I’ll not meet you among these hallowed barks,74
Not in here now or later coming back!75
O seer of evils never speaking good,76
‘Tis vice you love and such you prophesy.77
Your plan is not that safer I depart.”78
You have not pow’r a son of god to make
For Him received you not;79 and me you seek
To kill, because He hath no place in you.”80
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The fiend un-subtled, sharpened eyes on me,
Did answered with dissembling smoothly giv’n:81
“So, Him ye think to name as foe to me?
That one most grand who loathes the suppliant,
Hath named all thine as mine82 and thee for me
To save.83 O child of earthly-make here be
A thing of which ye have not heard to hear,
Give fealty to me, attendant man.”84
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His truest lie he then revealed to me:
“In happy realms of light and brightly clothed
Transcendent did I shine;85 my voice I raised
To lower me and bear up all mankind,86
Now here am I that man as god may be.87
Though Adam’s son, in his room now be thou,88
By death put off the man and god put on:89
By death perfected as my Father in heav’n.”90
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Now undisguised the Arch-fiend91 proffered me:
“Have death’s perfection now by either fate:92
Remaining here thy home to thee is lost,93
For glory great and priesthood without end.94
If homeward should ye fade, thy glory too,
As starry light by moon and sun obscured,95
Though quick’ning death may find ye not anon.
Choose life through me,96 O ye who ‘dureth not.”
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“What is this you have urged on me?” said I;
Then tempting at me said he: “Worship me,
Thou son of man.”97 And hearing this I hurt;
Its doing I abhor.98 I thus replied:
“Prepared am I by will, not guile, to die,99
In speaking such my soul you’d steal at once.”100
“Should brief one shameless day be mine,” he said,
“And ye of men most righteous shall be called.”101
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In heart weighed down and split102 to me I said:
“Encompassed round and set upon I grieve;103
Is yet the prince of sin without or in
Who so accuses me? Does frenzied mind104
With false creation105 pierce into itself?”
Thus covered o’er by pain as sooty cloud106
In dust outstretched I lay,107 in visage marred;108
My fear had swol’n into a bitter hell.109
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The end thereof, the place and my torment,110
Known to him who thrust it against my sight111
And whirled it ‘round,112 and conscious that when hands,
To plant and plough unused, receive increase
Divinely giv’n,113 perspective single stays;
He proffered me and thus my sight put out.
Unknown to him who knew my history:114
‘Twas by his fruit, that twofold would I see.115
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Let grieving soul and sorrowed heart attest:
By flesh, iniquity and tempting sin
So easily was I beset.116 I knelt
Me up and groaned within myself for voice117
To say what even now cannot be heard,118
Or understood, or e’en revealed to aught119
Than of its worm and fire must yet partake:120
I tremble to my self-caused suffering.121
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If crying out or in, I could not tell,
But once I know: exerting all my power,
From out that slough of my despond,122 sunk in
Despair,123 as like to one with cutting iron
Against the throat, I let a dreadful wail.124
Let Earth entire deny and persecute125
This principle and me, for I was heard
By Her, the queenly mother126 of us all.
Πότνια127
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At first all chaos was:128 From that methought
I saw myself in dark and dreary waste.129
Within the space of many hours passed,130
And when th’ offending worm who pierced the world131
Had siphoned all my strength ‘til naught but cries
And life were left in me to yet go out:
‘Twas heard, my ululate, that led to me
The Mercy of the Lord, His tender Love.132
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By many names has She been loved and loathed:
In ancient Israel: Yahweh’s Asherah;
And to the fourth of Noah’s Iapetus:133
She’s Gaia, Demeter, or Hestia;
Among the schism’d branch of Lehi’s kin
They knew their god was not a partial god;134
For in the God whose grasping Justice cuts
They could see Her whose Mercy Him perfects.135
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When up I rose as from unrest and looked,136
The inner court that jealoused Solomon
I had not passed; but as a lily ringed
By thorns,137 I still retained my open wounds.
With hands both sinister and dext’rous he’d
Come up below my head with full embrace.138
“Rise up” he’d said, “and come away, beloved;”139
Was I by him or he by me cast out?
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A’warring in the midst of my tumult
I often turned against myself and said:
“O What am I to do? And which of these
Within my mind is right? Perchance both wrong?
If one be right, then which, and shall I know?”140
While laboring at difficult extremes141
It came into my heart that what I lacked142
Was She who had been with Him from before.143
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While being where before I’d planned to be,144
(Know: there was none else to whom I could go)
I offered up my heart for Mercy’s claim:
“O you who bore me ere this shortened life145
From spirit element to intellect
And thence in royal courts on high me raised,146
Whom thy belovéd Justice honors not:147
Say why, O why, has He forsaken me?”148
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So had I spake and seeped a lonely tear;149
When from the side of Him who set the deep150
She came and sat before me as I wept,151
And calling me by name152 spake the divine
Woman: “Why weepest thou?”153 to which I said,
“You know; must I recount myself to one
Who knows all things?”154 And then said She to me:
“Else Justice hath upon the creature claim.”155
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She then perceived my worried mind and spake:156
“And now, my son, trouble thyself no more;157
Only cease thou to turn against thyself
With uninspired songs by shameless kings.”
Enheartened now I asked Her: “How am I
Delivered from that one who held me bound?”158
And She said: “By th’ Atonement made for thee159
Hath Mercy claimeth all which is her own.”160
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And then when next I said: “The Lord hath me
Forsook and me hath He forgot;161 when I
Was compassed by the sorrow of death around,
And too the pains of hell had gat upon,
When troubled sorrow I had found,162 O God
Where wert thou then?163 “My son,” said She, “let peace
Be to and o’er thy soul.164 Know he that trusts
In Adonai, I shall encompass him.”165
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“But how can it be done?” I queried next.
She said again: “’Tis by Atonement made
That Mercy claimeth all which is her own.
Since ye had fallen, in and of thyself,
There is not anything that ye merit.166
Tis only He, twice born maternally
By one almighty sire, apart from all
Who hath done any good and merits Me.”
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“If only one there is and was,” said I,
“Then how came ye to me?” “Because,” said She,
“Thy sins ye did lay bare when ere I asked
Why weepest thou, and by which penitence
I claimed thee true against Just exercise.167
I tell thee this that ye may learn of me:168
It was that ye have cried as He for me169
Which rent my veil170 and my whole face deformed.171
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“For ‘tis with Him as one ye must become
By means of penitence; by other means
My plan could not be brought,172 and this the plan:
On men did Justice call, that whosoe’er
Repent and harden not his heart, on him
Will I alight, on Me will he have claim,
Like to the Son by Justice lone begot,173
Who suffered from the first His will in all.”174
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When seeing me confused at this She said:
“And now my son, there is yet somewhat more
That I would say to thee, a mystery:175
Experience alone can knoweth Me,
Thus, He alone is filled by Me who takes
On thine infirmity and suffers pain,
Affliction, and temptation every kind,
For otherwise My succor can’t be known.176
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“For only He”, continued She, “can know
Of Me Who suffers impositioning,177
Not ignorant of woe, to the wretchéd
With all My succor has He learned to go.178
For He alone can ask the wounded’s plight,
As He Himself the wounded has become.179
Tis through Him that I’m come to thee to lead
Thee to His rest180 and back to His presence.”181
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More plainly then She gave to me to know:
“Apart from thy becoming Him to Me
Thou art condemned and claim on thee I lack.182
For Justice hath a punishment decreed
Before whose bar ye stand fallen and lost,
And hard183 except for Him who counseleth
With Me and Justice too o’er all our works.184
And now, O man, rememb’ring, perish not.”185
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“And think ye not that I can Justice rob;
If so, both He and I would cease to be.186
For opposition must there be in all,187
Else would both I and Justice be destroyed,188
For, as all, We are in one compounded,189
A twofold One: all things did We create,
In heav’n and earth.190 I say create, in truth,
We organized from תה֨וּ֨ וׇבֺ֔הוּ 191”
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“That one within this wood who thee awaits,
The one th’ accuser made to be thy foe,
Tis Him I cannot rob but may o’erpow’r192
And satisfy His Just demands for thee193
By recourse unto One besmeared upon
Whom Justice sired because We loved the world.194
Was for a moment small had He forsook
Thee, see though, I am come to gather thee.”195
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At that I found a zeal to penetrate
Beyond the inner court wherein I would
Learn that the blood of One besmeared was shed
That He might know of me and I of Him;
I stood before the fanum in the wood,
The sylvan τέμενος, made consecrate
By sprinkled blood,196 with Her whose presence filled
The sacredest קֹדֶשׁ197, to enter in.
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“Arise” said She, “and stand; for there awaits
An evil-laden path and long,198 so long,
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light;199
O thou begot again by godly blood,
How facile is the fall to death, and spread
For always are the gates. And here is toil:
To trace again thy step to upper airs.
Tis few who do, whom equal Justice loves.”200
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And then from me: “What is this thou hast said,201
That I, who stand before the pillars leaved,
Have yet a way both long and hard to tread?
And what is this of hell and death and toil?
Am I not now released, as I was told,
By One who suffered all for your succor?
Is this Heaven which most receives Just light202
Or leads it to the city suffering?”203
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Then She: “That second place ye named to me,
Have I, most high, with Justice urged and made.204
I’troth was I with Him from ‘ere the world,205
Before the depths and hills and mounts was I
With Him, before the sky and clouds and sea
Which His decree had compassed and set down;206
Before was I as one brought up with Him,207
And we are gods, because we have no end.”208
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“Thy path, concerning which, I now explain:
Ye have heard that it hath been said by them
Of old how strait a gate and narrow way
Leads in the few who findeth it; tis true
For many in the world have known Me not.209
And broad and wide the gate and way to death,
With many there who Justice don’t abide.210
But understand: this twofold way is one.”
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“Yea, up and down the way is one and like;
And men misunderstand on hearing this
As well at first as not at all.211 Again:
The path to Heav’n and that to Hell are one;
Just as the stumbling block and stepping stone
Are just one rock and you the diff’rence ‘lone.
For free thou art, tis for thyself to act212
And not be acted on; thy flesh is free.”213
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“Desire alone can lead intelligence;214
Indeed, who raises force against the soul,
Against a Champion cased in adamant
Would tilt with straw.215 Intelligence requires
Denier’s right and total liberty,
Indeed, of domination none permits.216
To know is willful choice, eternal life,217
For right embraceth knowledge which is power.”218
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That opposition must there be, and is,
In all, all things, which in one compounded
Must needs be,219 have I come to understand.
Without contrary there is no progress;
Evil and good so-called are sprung from such.220
Or shall we good and evil not receive?221
Shall we our godly heritage depart?222
T’was willful suffering I did not grasp.
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“Pray, ask thy son for me,” I said, “’tis pain
That granteth to the suff’rer truth?” Then She:
“To suffer is to full express the self,
In truth, thy self is god in embryo.
Thy self is light and thus in light is dark;
It must in dark descend and shineth out.
T’was for this that We gave thee to below,
So as to draw the good from out the dark.”
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“Thus was and is the One besmeared upon
The law that sanctifies or not.223 He too,
As thou, is light; He also truth became
By high ascent and low descent, in all
For comprehending224 thine infirmities.
As thou thereby are Him become to me,
‘Tis by my succor given thee by Him,225
That I to thee will cleave as light to light.”226
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As stars reflect a greater light, said I:
“In this doth suff’ring yield the greatest truth:
For as to know is willful choice by one
It is the highest sign of agency;
And when a one whose only pow’r is choice,
Which is the pow’r supreme in every one
Does by that power layeth down their self,
It thereby bears a fullness to that one.”
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Then She, who giveth light and quickeneth:227
“And here is sacredness: to know, thyself,
As doth a god; there is no other way.
Tis only gods can speak a sanctity,
Can truth exchange betwixt and self maintain.
Therefore the light in thee I bore before
This shortened life and raised to intellect
Must cleave to Me as light to Light doth cleave.”
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To Her: “How lost was I, in dark, and blind?
I sought thee not, nor me that ye should rule.”228
“How marv’lous are the works of Him besmeared,
And how long are His sufferings for me;229
That He His Self to Justice layeth down
For sanctity to speak to me by Thee.”
Then She, “As willfully as He must ye
Abide the way to Him that justifies.”
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“Thou must be born of water, blood and spirit.230
As water poured conform to my commands:
A watery face that’s hovered o’er by Me.231
And then by spirit art thou justified:
Yea, be thou smeared upon and just thereby.
At last by blood receive of sanctity:232
Be sanctified by His sanguinity
Which maketh white by willful suffering.”
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“Tell what commands ye have for me.” I sought;
“And how may I by Thee above be shaped?”
The Goddess sang, to make a king of me:233
“As I love them who loveth Me,234 so thou
Receive of Me a fruit beyond knowledge,235
The which with gold and silver can’t be bought.
Tis good for food and pleasant to the eye,
And meet for thou to eat and become wise.”236
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“By Me reign and tread thou on Justice’ path.237
Th’ Accuser would thee dress in ficus skirt;238
I put on thee a power from on high.
For until now a wat’ry chaos thou,
Now o’er thy face I move upon and wash;239
By this, as when to sea, We give decree,
And this command thou shalt not over pass:240
From bloody generation be thou clean.”241
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As bitterly exquisite was my pain,
When darkly ‘ccused, so sweetly now my joy.242
How bless’d is he, knowing the rites of gods,
And purified, initiate by Her.243
To me She gave to see His sufferings;
Praise ye Her for the holy catharses!244
A beastly skin Her roseate fruit left me;245
She made for me a little coat therewith.246
ϝάναξ247
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When She had made an end to oracling
And to Herself retired, I awoke;248
The vision closed itself at length and I
Was left upon the solemn scene to muse.249
A’wond’ring at the brilliant personage
Of the most heav’nly potentate by Whom
I had been sprinkled over, I recalled
The course of Her divine commands to me.250
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Enrapt’d in such a state I quiet stood;
What utterance and whence exordium
Should first of all I speak or seize upon?
‘Pon what discourse with tongue afloat to take?
What thanks and how shall I the goddess sing?251
Suspense entire did hold my staring mind
As motionless, intent, and fixed throughout.252
On me as such broke amber hue as fire.253
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Like fire unquenched, like flame ascending up,
Fore’er and e’er, did anguish, pain, and guilt
Fill up my breast: at my own guilt alive.
Such gave me cause to shrink at His approach.254
Yea, I saw Him Who cannot be denied;255
To witness His advent is to behold
The final day upon you bearing down
As with a measured step, and this is He:
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“This is my name: ‘tis Man of holiness,256
Apart from thee, and quite above, I stand.
And endless and eternal is my name,257
Ere thee was I and I know more than thee.258
‘Tis I thou shalt not test.259 But, if ye must,
Then make a trial of Me that ye may know260
By how much more intelligent I am;261
For Man of counsel is my name.”262 And I:
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“O wherefore has She not remained with me
And my right hand to clasp in Hers as one
For truths to hear and voices to exchange?”263
He told of when She first had heard my cry:
“She hath not Thy behest forgot to Me;
For at my knee and chin She gave thy cause,264
‘If I be thy delight’ said She to Me,
Would thou honor my son who dureth not.’”265
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“Think ye that She Her sucking child forgot?
That one, born of Her womb, She would forget?
And I as well can never thee forget-266
Thou hast sure place by fasten’d nail267 engraved
In filial palms268 of One besmeared upon.
As thou like Him becomes thou dost repent,
And claim on thee hath She, with Me appeased;
For I must exercise all My demands.”269
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Then I: “If every pow’r is giv’n to you;
If all things with you are made possible,270
What then for suffering? What then for pain?
Or can ye not this bitter cup remove271
And draw us, as it were, by golden chain
To sit in your kingdom, and ne’er go out,272
And spare experience that giveth light?
I know you can do everything.”273 Then He:
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“Would thou hear now what ardor stirs in Me:274
Ye ask if by a golden chain from heav’n,
With thou and all the world clinging thereto,
If I, when should I want and minded so,
Could draw the world to Me and thou as well?275
If yea, thou wouldst preclude experience,
And next sustain thy misery thereby;276
Why would ye seek out Justice yet unclean?”
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“Thy Mother, Who was first to visit thee,
Woe’s come to She and pained and weary too
Over the wickedness in Her children.
Could She find rest and cleansing from that filth277
If I should thee bring forth before thy time?
Condemned art thou, by words and, yea, by works;
Darest thou now, in awful spotted state,
To look on Me without thy Mother’s claim?”278
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“And stand ye must before my judgment bar
And for thy self be judged, if thou hast learned.”
Thus, feeling now ashamed eternally,
Acknowledging the justness of my judge,279
I fain would have a mountain on me fall.280
When next He called on me, as was His plan:
“Thy Mother’s claim is thine through One besmeared;281
As Him thou must become and this by Me.”
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“For He is just, the One besmeared upon;
Tis by His sufferings thy way to Me
Is just; by His experience may thou
Thy Mother know and succor of Her claim.
Some falls, it must needs be, are means to rise
The happier;282 thus sight of misery,
With which th’ accuser threatened thee, long ye
To see, for necessary happiness.”283
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And thus I saw that we, of godly breed,
T’avoid great errors, must the less commit.284
So confident but curious the more,
I sought of Him to know the cause of things,
And count myself felicitous thereby.285
“Tell me,” said I, “of Her and mine accuser.
And how shall I become as One besmeared?”
“Tis She,” said He, “by whom I know all things,”286
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“And ‘tis by Her in Me I thee command:
Show not unto the world of thine accuser;287
A combination most abom’nable
And wicked in my sight formed he of old288
For naught but lust for gain.”289 “But who?” said I;
Then He: “Th’ accuser joined with Cain of whom
‘Twas said with wrath I loathe the suppliant.”
But, lo, this vision write before its end.290
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‘Twas Abel’s vanity th’ accuser saw:
“’Tis thee I always see, thou adamson,291
Seeking for favor on thyself from high;
And now ye search before and round the tents
Of he whose shepherd offspring dwell therein;292
Seek now ye him within whose sword’s asweat?293
So tell thy heart and learn from one who knows.”294
Then breathed the second son: “Is Cain within?”
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“Whoe’er it is has rightly me discerned,295
Encircling now the path296 of one o’erborne,
Who has done so a grievous thing tonight,297
Thus willing have I yoked myself to know:
Why recently were found our slaughtered kine?”298
“Tis Cain ye think?” th’ accuser asked. Abel:
“His sword, yet crimson dight,299 did give him mark.”
Th’ accuser ‘gain: “It did and will again.”
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With start did Abel seek: “And do you know
What’s gone before as well as what will be?300
‘Tis godly voice that pours from one unseen?”301
The hissed reply: “’Twas I who bent his wrath
And turned it ‘gainst thy flocks and herds.302 ‘Twas thee
He would have killed if not for me. ‘Pon him,
For this, is laid the guilt by everyone,303
The weight of which will drive the blood from him.”
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That dismal prophecy did Abel prompt:
“What ill λόγος did force his hand to this,304
That made him ‘pon the flocks, or me, a curse?”305
And then th’ accuser gave: “His wrath at thee
Is simple jealousy; he sees thy days,
As idle with thy flocks, as riotous,
And of paternal substance but a waste.306
Thy offering, not his, was giv’n respect.”307
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“Dost thou now see, thou second adamson?
Dost thou now see, in this, how great my strength?”308
Then Abel: “Yea, I see, but pity him;309
Although ‘twas I he meant to die tis he,
As men die most by other than mere death,310
And thou has married him to evil haze311
And made him less than real, a fleeting shade.”312
At this th’ accuser took a new effect:
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“Hence never should ye overstep thy bounds,313
Lest thou upon the nauseous mind314 of Cain
Should look and share therein! Remember this:
A single day can sprawl or elevate
The lot of man.”315 With that th’ accuser fled.
And Abel knew: “’Twas not the heart of Cain
Alone that led him down the left hand path
But sickness by a god upon him sent.”316
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Apart from all was Cain, within his tent.
His garments, once as snow, were scarlet shot317
With residue from taurine throat poured out;
Thereby, he thought, his self and kin aton’d318
For offering the fruit of Adam’s curse,319
Per spoken word320 from lighted messenger.321
Before his tent, as well as in his heart,
The LORD lay dead and sin was wandering.322
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Within the veil, where blood his seat did spot,323
Did Cain pronounce a name: “O Light bearer,
O child of Justice, lone begot, do you
Yet stand by me?324 Again I call for you;
Is there no care for your confederate?”325
Th’ accuser came: “I hear; thou hast, I trust,
Thy self and sword in blood rebaptizéd?”326
He had, which marked his second covenant.
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Th’ original compact was struck when Cain
Beheld to Abel, as to Adam, ‘ppeared
A heav’nly messenger.327 For many days
The herald spake of One besmeared by whom
Our penitence is consecrate for gain.328
To Cain th’ accuser came in masquerade
Of light329 and said, ‘believe it not,’ and Cain
Believed it not and loved him, not Justice.330
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To Cain had said th’ accuser, “Thy father,
Yea, Justice gave the earth and for thy sake
The ground He blessed and thou must not withhold.331
As none shall kill in all His holy mount,332
Which He shall rear in latter days, I thee
Command: bear Him thy fruit as Adam did;
Not meet for penitence, but evidence,
That thou, as He, would learn of good and ill.”
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When none of Justice’ love that offr’ing won
Cain to his god returned for further light:
Was by th’ accuser Cain would be endued;
Through blood he would put on his master’s mien.
So ‘gainst his brother’s flocks he put his sword;
Some throats he cut, some sides he tore.333 As well
As blows he evil speaking hurled, taught him
By one at once beyond and less than man.334
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When Cain, within his tent, that name pronounced
And saw th’ accuser come, he thus replied:
“By taurine throat my sword and I are born;
See, my garments know thy blood.” Th’ accuser:
“Supposeth ye thou art my child?335 Behold,
There yet is water purer still, if thou
Desire’st yet to come into my fold,
And mine be called and make my burden light.”336
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Then Cain: “You know that I love you.”337 Th’ accuser:
“Then swear thou by thy throat and tell it not,
Lest in the day ye do ye surely die!”338
Cain sware and sought: “From my own throat my blood
Ye would that I should spill?” Th’ accuser spake:
“Yea, thine own blood from other throat; I would
That not thy younger brother o’er us rule.339
I will that thou deliver Abel’s head.”340
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Now, learn of me, as I from Justice learnt:
T’was at the peak of night, with lamps unlit,
Cain sought a serpent’s step and bore along
A sword with double edge, his serpent mouth.
Against those teeth She cast: “What dost thou seek?
Unbidden thou, at no angelic hest?”341
But Cain: “If, mother, you bore order to
The silence, may it order bear to you.”342
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At this did Mercy cry: “Most miserable
Am I, that thus a man should speak to me
As he would never have before.343 Respect
Thine earthy parents and the gods above.
I now thee as a suppliant implore,
In Justice’ name and mine: betray Us not.”344
Then Cain: “No more to gods am I in debt;345
Behold, my father’s business I’m about.”346
89
And then She sought of him: “Why art thou wroth?
Tell, what has turned thy countenance from up?
In doing well be well-received; If not,
Then comes th’accuser who desireth thee.
If mine ye will not be then be thou his;
Be thou his king and by him lies beget.
Yea, be thou lost, who wast before the world.
Behold thy curse or choose ye penitence.”347
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And Cain was wroth:348 “Now, darkness is my light!
The deepest pit is radiant to me!
So Take me, take me; be to me as home!
That goddess bears me torment unto death.”349
So Cain would walk no more in Mercy’s light.
He said: “If Abel, as the One besmeared,
Would be a Son Ahman, Mahan am I;350
For by his blood my gain is consecrate.”
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There in the field where Cain did Abel slay,351
He gloried in the deed, said: “I am free;
And surely all is mine that once was his.”352
Then Justice spake to Cain: “Tell, what is this
That thou hast done? The blood of Abel cries
To me from Her ‘pon whom thou poured it out.353
Thus from Her I thee curse354 to never know
Her strength.”355 And, headlong Cain did fall and gush:356
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“O how, unhappy goddess, is it so?
This message come to me? Am I the cause?357
By heav’n above and by thy throne therein,
And by the earth ‘pon which you rest your feet,
By sacred cities ruled by sacred kings,
And by my head and throat I swear,358 O Queen:
Unwillingly I left your light! A god
Constrained me then, as well now! Quem fugis?359
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Sorely plead Cain with words that flowed and dropt:
“Will you now loathe a suppliant?” From such
She turned away and set her eyes aground,
Her face no longer changing at his cant;360
Herself She tore away and from him fled
Wither her consort, wherein Justice, was.361
To Justice Cain: “O’ermuch you punish me;362
O Eloi, why have you forsaken me?”363
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“’Tis you,” said Cain, “who drives me from Her face!364
I, who once might have been your son belov’d;
Who might have shown my name significant?365
I am קַיִן366; by you said Eve:367‘קָנִ֥יתִי’.
A played on Word,368 no more, was I to you;
I will escape the goddess’ grievous wrath.369
I will go wither none are able to,370
And bury up deep my sword371 in curséd place.”
95
Apart from all was Cain, driven about
By guilt from everyone upon him cast;
Unto a place he came for pressing out
What kingly sonship might be smeared on him;
He sat, then went again and yonder prayed;372
Exceeding was his soul with sorrow full,
Still none would tarry there and watch with him.373
His sword he’d fixed in petrine earth, head down.
96
And thus we see, as Justice told to me,
The end of Cain who was th’ accuser’s child.374
Upon the sign by which he conquered not,
He forward went and fell upon his face;375
With fullest force th’ adamantine tooth
Bore through his chest and rose from out his back.376
With three days’ time he freed himself and rose;
And thus there was a mark upon him set.377
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Then out from Cain went up a song ne’er heard,
As strange and fallen as its source, a weep;
Th’ accuser’s child bewailed378 his bleeding eye:
“O Queenly mother of us all, and You,
Who cannot be denied, see me, a god,
Now Paschal-made379 by You! Behold, ‘tis true,
By suffering alone are gods begot,
And weakness is the womb in which they grow.”
98
“’Twas not a two-edged sword that clave me thus,
‘Twas you, more sharp, and quick and powerful,
Who sundered me in joints and marrow both!”380
Then Mercy did to Justice turn and speak:
“’Tis clear he did it to himself; the sword
He fixed in earth and fell upon convicts.381
Let him not hence be seen but covered o’er,
That none behold the wound he gave himself.”382
99
And so spake Mercy from her golden seat,
And Cain was covered as by sooty cloud,
And livid, froze in ice that bares disgrace.383
And thus can plainly we discern384 that things
Most sweet by far turn sourest by their deeds;
That fester’d lilies smell far worse than weeds.385
As Justice spake of Cain and mine accuser;
So next I sought from Him to know of Her:
Χάρις386
100
“For such iniquity have I been smote,
And driven forth within this wilderness;387
Behold, O You Who cannot be denied,
Do not with me be angry, I am weak,
Unworthy and, by nature, evil fall’n,388
Nevertheless, has Mercy been to me.”389
Then He to me said: “What desirest thou?”390
And I to Him: “To know Her condescent.”391
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And Justice spake: “She is the tree of life,”392
The fount of living water, and My love;393
Thou art cut off from Her, fallen and lost.394
Know thou the One besmeared and know Her fruit,395
For such is He, a child borne in Her arms.396
As She is love, without Her thou art naught,397
Wherefore must ye needs have of Her, or else
Thy kingdom and inheritance is lost.”398
102
“She is all gifts to those who eateth bread399
With sweaty face ‘til they return to Her.400
And as My ways and thoughts are not as thine,401
But higher still, know thus is She to Me.
To Me She is the earth that beareth up,
By wisdom clothed upon, as with a veil,402
With grace upon Her head poured out by love;403
‘Twas She Who reared thee on celestial plain.”404
103
“T’was She and I stood in the midst of all,
And saw and said that all were good.”405 Then I:
“But whence came we and what’s our wither too?
Whence came th’ elements of intellects
Ye stood among?” Then He said unto me:
That these two facts exist: should there be two,406
One’s more intelligent; there’s no Αlpha
Nor Omega these, they are both עו֗לָם407.”
104
“When animae incapable ye were,
As yet absent in pow’r to domineer,
‘By Us, the Artisans of better worlds,
Were ye all organized; of seed divine
And earth newborn from sky combined are ye;
By Our forethought We fixed Our effigy408
Upon thy spirit form, most fine and pure;409
As male and female made We thee as We.”410
105
“There is a grandeur in this view of life,”
Said I to Him, “that we orig’nally,
With our several pow’rs were breathed into
The dual form held by the twofold One;
And whilst this planet has gone circling on,
According to the laws thereon affixed,
That from so simple a beginning forms
Most beautiful and wonderful evolved.”411
106
Then Justice sang: “Thou art from everlast,412
Thou wert enclothed upon413 by Her, ere I,
To Whom vengeance is giv’n, revealed Myself;414
And when in darkness ye had foundered by
T’was Mercy held thee up;415 ‘twas She with Whom
I made dry land and sea.416 So harden not
Thy heart within this wilderness417 and come
Into My courts,418 the beauty of קֺדֶשׁ419.”
107
Before Him went a fire round about420
That gave the clouds and dark whence came His words,421
As lightning comes enlightening.422 And He:
“I do remember She that came to thee,423
Encircled thee around as with a robe;424
Thou shalt become as One besmeared by Me,
One put upon for cherubic embrace,
So by this ordinance I give to thee.”425
108
Enrobed by Her, and consecrate by Him,426
As sons by fathers are,427 before the door
Of sacredest, conceived to be 428קֺדֶשׁ
Along His word, as by a rod,429 I went;
In unto Her, the tree of life, I came.430
Having been placed within our primal home,431
Where enters nourishment we freely eat,432
I was drawn out with skin besmeared upon.433
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So I had by the twofold One been heard,
Delivered from th’ accuser’s lips and tongue;434
T’was They Who organized the earth and heav’n
Who kept and overshadowed my right hand;435
I was made glad when They said unto me:
‘Come ye into Our house, within Our gates.’436
Mine eyes I raised as She came unto me!437
‘Twas She Who came against th’ accuser’s swell.438
110
As per my trust I saw th’ eternal mount,439
And there became Their seed by suffering,440
Their fruit and heritage,441 an olive plant
From Her, the fruitful vine442 Who is righteous.443
She heard this suppliant from out the deep;444
My soul She weaned,445 endued with righteousness.446
With His שֶׁמֶן447 was I besmeared upon.448
Within קֺדֶשׁ449 my hands I would upraise.450
un Autre451
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Within and still, intent and fixed throughout,452
Over me broke a fire as had before.
The fire burned but I was not consumed,453
But given light and quickened was I now.454
Th’ twofold One reflecting ‘pon Themselves,455
They Two were rolled and bound by love to One.456
I heard my name; I heard “belov’d” and “son.”457
My self had gone and Other come instead.
J. Wayne Shaw is a husband, father, latin teacher and veteran.
Artwork by Hannah Craig.
Weil, Attente de Dieu, pg. 33. “At fourteen…After months of internal darkness, I suddenly had the everlasting conviction that any person, even should their natural faculties be absent, can penetrate to the kingdom of truth reserved for genius, if only he longs for truth and makes a perpetual effort after its attainment.”
1 Kings 19:11-13
John 3:8
Luke 12:27
Lev. 8:10-15
Dante, Inferno 1:8-9
Milton, Paradise Lost 1:26
Hebrew: “ha-sa-tan.” Adversary, accuser.
Latin: “fa-noom.” Temple, sanctuary, sacred space.
Greek: “te-me-nos.” A placed marked off as sacred to a deity.
Hebrew: ko-desh.” Term for the inner recesses of the Israelite Tabernacle and Temple; sacred.
Milton, Paradise Lost 2:975; Dante, Inferno 1:2-3
Wordsworth, Poetical Works, pp. 2, 463
JSH 1:11, 15
Job 1:6-7
Dante, Inferno1:31-49
Homer, Iliad 1:1-4
D&C: 127:2
Wordsworth, Poetical Works, 299
Vergil, Aeneid 6:258-9
Milton, Paradise Regained 1:314
Milton, Paradise Regained 2:299-301
Dante, Inferno 34:29, 90
Luke 10:18
2 Nephi 26:22
Dante, Inferno 34:18
Dante, Inferno 34:55-7
Homer, Iliad 6:146, 149
Hobbes, Leviathan 13:9
Hel. 6:22
Alma 30:53
Milton, Paradise Lost 1:125-6
Euripides, Bacchae 918
D&C 88:7
Euripides, Bacchae 921-2
Euripides, Bacchae 800-1
Milton, Paradise Lost 157-8
Joseph Fielding Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith p. 137
D&C: 88:133
Luke 2:49
D&C 1:17
Homer, Iliad 9:378
Homer, Iliad 9:312-13
Job 7:17
Homer, Iliad 9:120-1
Homer, Iliad 9:122
Homer, Iliad 9:128
D&C 25:3, 6
Homer, Iliad 9:149
Hesiod, Theogeny 22-3
D&C 76:26
Latin: “pry-keps.” Headfirst, headlong.
Homer, Iliad 1: 591-2
Milton, Paradise Lost 4:197-8
Vergil, Aeneid 2:206-7; Milton, Paradise Lost 9:525
Vergil, Aeneid 2:208
Vergil, Aeneid 2:210
Milton, Paradise Lost 9:530-1
Sophocles, Philoctetes 41-2
Homer, Iliad 9:277
Homer, Iliad 9:261
Homer, Iliad 9:254-5
Homer, Iliad 9:257
Milton, Paradise Lost 1:122
Milton, Paradise Lost 1:133
JSH 1:14, Abr. 3:23-8
1 Timothy 6:10
Matthew 12:42
Dante, Inferno 3:5
Dante, Inferno 3:6
Latin: God never was able to create.
Dante, Inferno 3:9
Homer, Iliad 1:25
Homer, Iliad 1:26
Homer, Iliad, 1:27
Homer, Iliad 1:106
Homer, Iliad 1:107
Homer, Iliad 1:32
John 1:12
John 8:37
Milton, Paradise Regained 1:465, 467
Job 1:12
Job 2:6
Sophocles, Philoctetes 52-3
Milton, Paradise Lost 1:85-6
Abr. 3:27
Genesis 3:5
Milton, Paradise Lost 3:285-6
Milton, Paradise Lost 9:713-4
Matthew 5:48
Milton, Paradise Regained 1:357
Homer, Iliad 9:411
Homer, Iliad 9:413
Hymn 27
D&C 76:81
2 Ne. 2:27
Moses 1:12
Sophocles, Philoctetes 86-7
Sophocles, Philoctetes 90-1
Sophocles, Philoctetes 55
Sophocles, Philoctetes 84-5
Homer, Iliad 1:188-9
2 Ne. 4:17-8
Alma 30:16
William Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1
Homer, Iliad 18:22
Homer, Iliad 18:26-7
3 Ne. 21:10
Moses 1:20
D&C 76:45
Homer, Odyssey 9:383
Homer, Odyssey 9:387-8
Homer, Odyssey 1:108-11
History of the Church, 6:317
Gen. 3:22
2 Ne 4:17-8
3 Ne 17:14
3 Ne 17:15
D&C 76:46, 48
D&C 76:44
D&C 19:18
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress 20
JSH 1:16
Homer, Iliad 18:34-5
JSH 1:25
Homer, Iliad 18:35
Greek: “pot-nee-a.” Designation for royal or divine female figures.
Hesiod, Theogeny 116
1 Ne 8:7
1 Ne 8:8
Dante, Inferno 34:108
1 Ne 8:8, 11:22
Gen. 10:2
Moroni 8:18
Alma 42:14-5
Milton, Paradise Lost 9:1051-2
Song of Solomon 2:2
Song of Solomon 2:6
Song of Solomon 2:8
JSH 1:10
JSH 1:11
JSH 1:11-2
Proverbs 8:22
JSH 1:15
Homer, Iliad 1:352
Hymn 292: “O My Father”
Homer, Iliad 1:354
Matt. 27:46
Homer, Iliad 1:357
Proverbs 8:29-30; Homer, Iliad 1:358
Homer, Iliad 1:360
Homer, Iliad 1:361; JSH 1:17
Homer, Iliad 1:362; John 20:15
Homer, Iliad 1:365; Alma 7:13
Alma 42:22
Alma 42:1
Alma 42:29
JSH 1:17
Alma 42:23
Alma 42:24
Isa. 49:14
Ps. 116:3
D&C 121:1
D&C 121:7
Ps. 32:10
Alma 22:14
Alma 42:24
Alma 38:9
Alma 38:8
Matt. 27:51, Mark 15:38, Luke 23:45
3 Ne 8:18
Alma 42:15
Alma 12:33-4
3 Ne 11:11
Alma 39: 1, 3
Alma 7:11-2
William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 9
Vergil, Aeneid 1:630
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass p. 57
Alma 12:34-5
Alma 42:23
2 Ne 9:25
Alma 34:9
Jacob 4:10
Mosiah 4:30
Alma 42:25
2 Ne 2:11
2 Ne 2:12
2 Ne 2:11
2 Ne 2:14
Gen 1:2. Hebrew: toe-hoo va boe-hoo.” traditionally translated as “without form and void.”
Alma 34:15
Alma 34:16
John 3:16
Isa. 54:7
Lev. 8:30
See footnote 11
Dante, Inferno 34:95
Milton, Paradise Lost 2:432
Vergil, Aeneid 6: 125-30
Alma 12:20
Dante, Paradiso 1:4
Dante, Inferno 1:1
Dante, Inferno 1:4-6
Proverbs 8:22-3
Proverbs 8:27-9
Proverbs 8:30
D&C 132:20
D&C 132:22
D&C 132:25
Graham, The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, pp. 142, 151
Hel. 14:30
2 Ne 2:26-7
Simone Weil, Attente de Dieu, p. 71
William Wordsworth, Poetical Works p. 347
Simone Weil, Attente de Dieu, p. 44
John 17:3
Encyclopedia of Joseph Smith’s Teachings 373:8
2 Ne 2:11
William Blake 149, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 3
Job 2:10
Gen. 3:22
D&C 88:20-1
D&C 88:6
Alma 7:12
D&C 88:40
D&C 88:11
Mosiah 8:20
Mosiah 8:20
Moses 6:59
Gen. 1:2
Moses 6:60
Proverbs 8:15
Proverbs 8:17
Eph. 3:19
Gen. 3:6
Proverbs 8:15, 20
Gen. 3:7
Gen. 1:2
Proverb 8:29
D&C 88:138; Matt. 8:3; Mark 1:41; Luke 5:13
Alma 36:21
Euripides, Bacchae 71-5
Euripides, Bacchae 77
Apul. Met. 11.13
1 Sam. 2:19; Gen. 3:21
Greek: “wa-nocks.” A title signifying lordship for gods or men.
Apul. Met. 11.7
William Wordsworth, Poetical Works 146
Apul. Met. 11.7
Apul. Met. 11.14
Dante, Paradiso 33:97-8
Ezek. 1:27
Mosiah 2:38
Jacob 6:10
Moses 7:35
Moses 7:35
Homer, Iliad 13:355
Luke 4:12; Deut. 6:16
Homer, Iliad 8:18
Abr. 3:19
Moses 7:35
Vergil, Aeneid 1:408-9
Homer, Iliad 1:500-1
Homer, Iliad 1:505-6
Isa. 49:15
Isa. 22:23
Isa. 49:16
Alma 42:24
Matt. 19:26, Mark 14:36
Mark 14:36
Alma 34:36
Job 42:2
Homer, Iliad 8:5-6
Homer, Iliad 8:19, 23-4
Alma 12:26
Moses 7:48
Alma 12:14
Alma 12:15
Alma 12:14
Alma 12:33
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline Act 4, Sc. 2
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas pg. 8
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, 259-60
Vergil, Georgics, 2:490
2 Ne. 2:24
D&C 19:21
Ether 8:18
Ether 8:16
D&C 76:49
Sophocles, Ajax 1
Gen. 4:20
Sophocles, Ajax 10
Sophocles, Ajax 12-3
Sophocles, Ajax 18
Sophocles, Ajax 19
Sophocles, Ajax 21-2
Sophocles, Ajax 24-6
Sophocles, Ajax 29-30
Sophocles, Ajax 34-5
Sophocles, Ajax 15
Sophocles, Ajax 53
Sophocles, Ajax 28
Sophocles, Ajax 40
Sophocles, Ajax 42
Luke 15:12-3
Gen. 4:4
Sophocles, Ajax 118
Sophocles, Ajax 121
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, p. 78
Sophocles, Ajax 123
Sophocles, Ajax 126
Sophocles, Ajax 127-8
Sophocles, Ajax 6
Sophocles, Ajax 131-2
Sophocles, Ajax 182-5
Isa. 1:18
Lev. 16:6; Moses 5:29
Gen. 3:17-9
D&C 129:8
2 Ne. 9:9
Lev. 16:9-10
Lev. 16:14
Sophocles, Ajax 91-2
Sophocles, Ajax 89-90
Sophocles, Ajax 94-5
Moses 5:6
2 Ne. 2:2
2 Cor. 11:14
Moses 5:13
Gen. 3:17
Isa. 11:9
Sophocles, Ajax 235-6
Sophocles, Ajax 243-4
Alma 54:11
Mosiah 18:8
John 21:15
Moses 5:29
1 Ne. 18:10
Mark 6:25
Sophocles, Ajax 284-90
Sophocles, Ajax 293
Sophocles, Ajax 410-1
Sophocles, Ajax 588
Sophocles, Ajax 589-90
Luke 2:49
Moses 5:22-25
Moses 5:26
Sophocles, Ajax 395-403
D&C 78:20; Moses 5:31
Gen. 4:8; Moses 5:32
Moses 5:33
Gen. 4:10; Moses 5:35
Gen. 4:11; Moses 5:36
Gen. 4:12; Moses 5:37
Acts 1:18
Vergil, Aeneid 6:456-8
Matt. 5:34-6
Vergil, Aeneid 6:460-3, 466. Latin: “kwem foo-gis.” “Whom do you flee?”
Vergil, Aeneid 6:469-70
Vergil, Aeneid 6:472-3
Gen. 4:13
Mark 15:34
Gen. 4:14
Sophocles, Ajax 430-1
Hebrew: “kai-yin.” Hebrew for Cain.
Gen. 4:1. Hebrew: “ka-nee-tee.” “I have gotten.”
John 1:1
Sophocles, Ajax 656
John 13:36
Alma 24:17
Matt. 26:36
Matt. 26:38
Alma 30:66
Matt. 26:39
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 64-5
Alma 3:10
Beowulf 782-8
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 90-2
D&C 6:2, 11:2, 12:2, 14:2, 33:1
Sophocles, Ajax 909-10
Sophocles, Ajax 915-6, 920
Dante, Inferno 32:34
Alma 24:30
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94.13-4
Greek: “kah-ris.” “Grace.”
Ether 3:3
Ether 3:2
Ether 3:3
1 Ne. 11:10
1 Ne. 11:16
1 Ne. 11:11, 16
1 Ne. 11:25
Alma 42:6
Alma 5:34
1 Ne. 11:20
2 Ne. 26:30, Moroni 7:44, 46
Moroni 10:21
Hesiod, Works and Days, 81-2
Gen. 3:19
Isaiah 55:8
Hesiod, Theogeny 571-4
Hesiod, Works and Days, 65
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetical Works, p. 91
Abr. 3:23
Abr. 3:19
Abr. 3:18; Hebrew: “oh-lam.” “Eternal.”
Ovid, Met. 1:76-83
D&C 131:7
Gen. 1:27
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, ch. 14
Ps. 93:2
Ps. 93:1
Ps. 94:1
Ps. 94:18
Ps. 95:5
Ps. 95:8
Ps. 96:8
Ps. 96:9; for the Hebrew see note 11.
Ps. 97:3
Ps. 97:2
Ps. 97:4
Ps. 98:3
2 Ne. 4:33, 9:14; 3 Ne. 11:8
Ps. 99:7
Ex. 28:41
Ex. 29:29; Gen. 1:27
See footnote 11.
1 Ne. 8:24
1 Ne. 8:30
Gen. 18:12
Gen. 2:16
Gen. 3:21
Ps. 120:1-2
Ps. 121:2, 5
Ps. 122:1-2
Ps. 123:1-2
Ps. 124:1-4
Ps. 125:1
Ps. 126:6
Ps. 127:3
Ps. 128:3
Ps. 129:4
Ps. 130:1-2
Ps. 131:2
Ps. 132:9
Hebrew: “sheh-men.” Oil for anointing.
Ps. 133:2
See footnote 11.
Ps. 134:2
French: “oon au-treh.” An other.
Dante, Paradiso 33:97-8
Ex. 3:2
D&C 88:11
Dante, Paradiso 33:118
Dante, Paradiso 33:86
JSH 1:17