Sunday, December 3, 2023

Much of Culture Is an Inverted Book of the Dead

“Ego, the Vulgar God.”

Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition,

Chapter XIX, Philosophical Incest

 

Saturn, the Inverted God, hides in Italy.

Ibid., Chapter X, Saturn: Inverted Gold

 

Ordinary walking consciousness, they say,

is a vulgar Moon looking to a vulgar Sun.

And, in that world, lead is gold, and death

is life but the Book of Life and its songs

are the catalogues and laments of the dead

with plucked-out hearts and souls shipwrecked,

sunk, choked, and swamped in reversed knowing,

passing in vain croaking frogs’ and ravens’ omens,

never hearing in the vociferance a daimon or a Muse.

And, so, being turned into worshipers of their bonds

to Justice and Beauty blind, the condemned and dead

must die, having tasted extra much but a trite of truth

while Urania stays and hides behind Orphic Eurydice.

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