Текст (слова) песни: Ulver - A Memorable Fancy, Plate 15

[plates 12-13]
The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they
dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; and whatever they did
not think at the time that they would be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. Isaiah answerd: I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite organical perception; but my senses discoverd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was then persuaded,& remain confirmd, that the
voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote.  Then I asked: Does a firm perswasion that a
thing is so, make it so?  He replied:  All poets believe that it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many
are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing.  Then Ezekiel said:
The philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human
perception: some nations held one principle for the origin,& some
another; we Israel taught that the poetic genius (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the others merely derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the priests & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods would at last be proved to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was this that our great poet
king David desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly, saying this he
conquers enemies & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding nations and asserted
that they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to thin that
all nations would at last be subjected to the Jews. This he said like
all firm perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the Jews
code and worship the Jews God, and what the greater subjection can be? I
heard this with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After dinner
I askd Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works; he said none of
equal value was lost. Ezekiel the same of his. I also asked Isaiah what
made him go naked and bare foot three years? He answerd: The same that
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. I then asked Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right & left side? He answerd The desire of
raising other men into perception of the infinite: this the North American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or conscience for
this sake of present ease or gratification? (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I have heard from hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but first the notion that man has a
body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing
in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in hell are salutary and in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he
sees things thro narrow chinks of his cavern

Другие песни Ulver:

A Memorable Fancy, Plate 15
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 12-13
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 17-20
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 22-24
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 6-7
A Song Of Liberty, Plates 25-27
Blinded By Blood
Christmas
Dead City Centres
Djtenjor Gol Og Vejtenjor Maan
Dressed In Black
For The Love Of God
Hymn 1 - Wolf And Fear
Hymn 2 - Wolf And The Devil
Hymn 3 - Wolf And Hatred
Hymn 4 - Wolf And Man
Hymn 5 - Wolf And The Moon
Hymn 6 - Wolf And Passion
Hymn 7 - Wolf And Destiny
Hymn 8 - Wolf And The Night
In The Red
It Is Not Sound
Kledt I Nattens Farger
Lost In Moments
Nowhere - Catastrophe
Operator
Ord
Plate 11
Plates 16-17
Plates 21-22
Plates 5-6
Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses
Proverbs Of Hell, Plates 7-10
The Argument, Plate 1
The Truth
The Voice Of The Devil, Plate 4
Utreise
We are the Dead
Your Call