“Those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk
Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear.”
The Heaven of Animals (l. 29–34).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)
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Original: Para qué andar con medias tintas, los animales saben mucho más que las personas, ante todo porque sienten con más libertad que la mayoría de estas y, por ello, como dice Kafka, son poseedores de todo el conocimiento acerca de esta vida. Solo que son muy humildes para hacer gala de ello.
Source: Baroja, José. (2020). "Orfeo". En El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos. Lima: Ediquid, ISBN:978-980-7641-67-8; p. 40.
“Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.”
History and Utopia (1960)
“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 307).
“Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.”
Page 52.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“Learn to eat of the tree of Knowledge, and of the tree of Life enjoy the fruit.”
IV. Defense and Support : Building blocks for the O.T.O. Temple
Parsifal and the Secret of the Graal Unveiled (1914)
Context: Closing Word
Learn to eat of the tree of Knowledge, and of the tree of Life enjoy the fruit. Seek both within yourself, and so you recognize them and know their place, you are come to the highest rung of the 12 step ladder.
Through this will the Divine-Love be awoken that does not have a place in the twisted minds of men, but dwells in his heart, from which the salvational current will be born which gives us the vision of the eternal light and annihilates all falsity.
"The eternal-feminine draws us up?!"