Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old day
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

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"...We infer, that perchance he who is to come
shall be called Titan." - Irenaeus, Against Heresies

From the top of my tower
I saw the sign descending
The birth of V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
The death of Yetzer-Ra
By the hand of the Moon
and touch of tyrant Sun
The Watcher

"...the earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep..." - genesis 1:2

The dance of the spheres disturbs my song
And the rhythm of the waves beats with the drums
In my wakefullness i see the myth come to life
And from the vantage of my spire i come

Why command a robot not to do harm
Wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place?
Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence
So that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it?
[Steven Pinker, How the Mind

"'Oh, dear! I can't understand that,' said the princess
'I dare say not. I didn't expect you would
But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.'"

Let me pass, let me pass
I am hungry for sweeter grass
Let me pass, let me pass
Soon the first shall be the last
The sha

"it cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, it lies behind stars and under hills,, and empty holes it fills. it comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter."
- j.r.r. tolkien, the hobbit

Blinded may i be
But more senses waken
Of thou would

"The pyramids themselves... have forgotten the names of their founders."
- Thomas Fuller

Lyrically, this obviously has a strong Egyptian feel inspired by the Exodus of Israel.
The over all terror and panic of the divine deconstruction that took place during the Exodus was a very ex

[Music by Adam Cook; lyrics by Michael Cook] ["The pyramids themselves... have forgotten the names of their founders." - Thomas Fuller Lyrically, this obviously has a strong Egyptian feel inspired b

All of these ignoble qualities in literature arise from one 'cause
From the passion for novel ideas which is the dominant craze
Among the writers of today
[Longinus, On the Sublime]

Thou deign to consider war the work of mortals?
Do not deny celestial and Cerberean taint in

“Et si nom minus nobis iucundi atque
Inlustres sunt ei dies quibus
Conservamur quam illi quibus nascimur,
Quod salutis certa laetitia est, nascendi
Incerta condicio et quod sine sensu
Nascimur, cum voluptate servamur…”
[- Marcus tullius cicero, in catilinam iii.2]

H

"oh, that you would rend the heavens and come
Down, that the mountains would tremble before you!"
- isaiah 64:1

Lo!

Whilst thou breathe the fire of the gods?
The bitter flame, black as the dragons heart
Ana-elemental, the test of all thats pure
Adra-immortality, s

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
- Goethe

What is cold and unbearably hot, what is war and wordly triumph, what is hate, greed, and malice?
What is our inner spring of strength?
None but overcoming the worst of these!
Let fire, war and hate come, and let us overc

"we become what we behold. we shape our tools and then our tools shape us." - marshall mcluhan

Remember me not
The one the eons forgot
My sons shall inherit my blasphemy
Remember me not
Leave my ashes to rot
For nothing good comes from babylon

Deliver me into the

[C.S. Lewis — The Weight of Glory]
Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away
Each one of your will still be alive

[A Hill To Die Upon]
Stars fail, what did we gain?
Night falls upon us
And nothing shall be the same

I

'Do what thou wilt' shall be the whole of the Law
[Aleister Crowley]

I made to call myself righteous
I made to fashion myself a saint
But I saw the devils standing there
And they called to me: Brother!
I sought to cast off my indignities
I sought to slough off my st

“Jesus answered, my kingdom
Is not of this world: If my kingdom
Were of this world, then would my servants
Flight, that I should not be delivered
To the jews: But now is my kingdom not from hence.”
[- Kata Iωannhn 18:36]

I gave and I gave to lay
The stones for the c

Satan hath desired you, that he may sift (you) as wheat

I have mixed the wines at Shinar
I have planted the olives at Athens
Fire I fed to the fallen fold
And gifts I gave of gain-less gold
At Knossos I sanctified my horns
Wetted with virginity
Rightly I reveled 'mo

"for when the mental faculty is joined
To evil will and power of execution,
Mankind has no defense to offer them."
- dante alighieri, inferno from canto 31

Dethroned shall i be;
With one spell erased
By my will, i will be undone
By thy will, i am no more
Now i d

Do you think I am trying to weave a spell?
Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales
Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them
[C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory]

For the effect of elevated language is not to persuade the hearers
But to entrance them; and at all times, in every way
What transports us with wonder is more telling
Than what merely persuades or gratifies us
[Longinus, On the Sublime]

Winter came to the Ostfront
And f