Ulver - A Memorable Fancy 2 lyrics

Album: Themes From William Blake´s The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (1999)

[plates 12-13]
The prophets Isaiah & Ezekiel dined with me, & I asked them how they
dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; & whatever they did
not think at the time that they´d be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. Isaiah answer´d: ´I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite organical perception; but my senses discover´d the infinite in
every thing, & as I was then persuaded,& remain confirm´d, 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´s 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 1st 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 1st principle & all the others merely derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the priests and 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 and invokes so pathetic´ly, saying this he
conquers enemies and governs kingdoms; & we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding nations & 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 & worship the Jews´ God, & what the greater subjection can be? ´I
heard this with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After dinner
I ask´d 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 & bare foot three yeahrs? He answer´d: ´The same that
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. ´I then asked Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right and left side? He answer´d ´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 yeahrs is true, as I´ve 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 & appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite and corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but 1st 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 & in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, & displaying the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it´s. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, until he
sees things thro´ narrow chinks of his cavern

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