Sacred Orifice

The 20th Century Plague: not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
[Aldous Huxley]

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the Sun.
[Kahil Gibran]

There remains but a small space to cross of the long path we have trodden before the cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolise our people, will be completed.
When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice".
[Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, 1905]

When chthonic (i.e., that which dwells in the under-world), the Snake is the enemy of the Sun and all Solar and spiritual powers and represents the Dark Forces in mankind".
[Dictionary of Symbolism]

The Persian snake Azi-dahak is 'the throttler', enemy of the Sun-God.
[ib.,]

The brothers and sisters die if we live, the Myriads Invisible squeak reptile complaint.
[Alan Ginsberg T.V. Baby Poems 1961]

O O O ...

"And the drunken mountains tottered: the river,
Like a boa constrictor stretched over
The whole valley, darted out to wrap itself around them".
['Awakening in the Carriage', de Nerval]

The Breath - Ahhhh ...

"A man should not marry a girl who is named after a snake".
['The Laws of Manu' 3.9]

The stream wears the pebble round ...

"Ils reviendront, ces Dieux que tu pleures toujours!
Le temps va ramener l'ordre des anciens jours".
[They will return, those gods you still weep for!
Time will bring back the order of old days]
['Delfica', de Nerval]

Plunge in and down ...

"And I am homesick
After mine own kind that know, and feel
And have some breath for beauty and the arts".
['In Durance', E.Pound 1907]

The Halo ... The Hollow ... The Hole Above and Below ...

"The Nordic gods do not create mankind in the manner of the Christian God but rather provide it with original gifts. This is similar to the actions of the serpent and the fallen angels in the Christian mythos.
Man, in turn, moulds images of the gods and sacrifices gifts in exchange for those recieved".
['Gothicism and the Dark Tradition', T.Karlsson (www.dragonrouge.net)]

Droplets ...

"Bless the cup which is about to overflow so that the water golden-flowing out of it may carry everywhere the reflection of thy rapture".
['TSZ', Nietzsche]

The Crown ... The Skull... The Deathmask ...

"As he died, Napoleon saw an armed head ...
He thought of his already weak and suffering son:
So the head was his beloved France,
Decapitated, dying at its Caesar's feet".
['The Armed Head', de Nerval]

Elipse ... Eclipsed ...

"The poets's is to DEFINE and yet again define till the detail of surface is in accord with the root in justice. [Rot] to submit to the transient".
[Letter of 1935, E.Pound]

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