Distant in Solitary Night

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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of genius, which to angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their proverbs, thinking that as sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell shew the nature of infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments. When I came home, on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat-sided steep frowns over the present world, I saw a mighty devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock. With corroding fires he wrote the following sentence, now perceived by the minds of men and read by them on Earth: "How do you know but every bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; hungry clouds swag on the deep. Once meek, and in a perilous path, the just man kept his course along the vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath sing the honeybees; then the perilous path was planted on every cliff and tomb, and on the bleached bones, red clay brought forth. O my dark brothers, as a new heaven has begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the eternal Hell revives. I cried to the dark angel sittting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, and the return of Adam into paradise. Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call "good" and "evil". Good is the passive that obeys reason; evil is the active springing from energy. Good is Heaven, evil is Hell. All listen to the voice of the Devil, as all bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors: that man has two real existing principles, a body and a soul; that energy, called evil, is alone from the body, and that reason, called good, is alone from the soul; that God will torment man in eternity for following his energies. But the following contraries to these are true: man has no body distinct from his soul, for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age; energy is the only life and is from the body, and reason is the bound or the outward circumference of energy. All behold, our energy is the eternal delight. Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained, and the restrainer, or reason, usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. And the original archangel, or the possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is called the devil or Satan, and his children are called Sin and Death. It indeed appeared to reason as if desire was cast out, but the true account is that the messiah fell and formed a heaven of what he stole from the Abyss. This is shown in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the comforter, or desire that reason may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he who dwells in flaming fire. All must know that after Christ's death, he became Jehovah. The Father is destiny, the son a ratio of the five senses, and the Holy Ghost nothing more than a vacuum. Prisons are built with stones of the law, brothels with bricks of religion. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the ragings of the stormy sea and the destructive sword are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025