“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
— Wallace Stevens, book Harmonium
"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Context: We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or an old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail
Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness;
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
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Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
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