A memorable fancy 3 lyrics

Artist  : Ulver 
Song : A memorable fancy 3
 
(plate 15)
I was in a printing house in hell & saw the
method in which knowledge is
transmitted from generation to generation. In the
first chamber was a
dragon-man, clearing away the rubbish from a
cave's mouth; within, a
number of dragons were hollowing the cave. In the
second chamber was a
viper folding round the rock & the cave, and
others were adorning it
with gold, silver and precious stones. In the
third chamber was an eagle
with wings and feathers of air: he caused the
inside of the cave to be
infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men,
who built palaces in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were lions
of flaming fire, raging
around & melting the metals into living fluids.
In the fifth chamber were
unnam'd forms, which cast the metals into the
expanse. There they receiv'd
by men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took
the forms of book & were
arranged in libraries.

(plates 16-17)
The giants who formed this world
into its sensual existence and now seem to live
in it in chains, are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all
activity; but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have
power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is
strong in cunning. Thus
one portion of beings is the prolific, the other
the devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the producer was in his
chains: but it is no so,
he only takes portions of existence and fancies
that the whole. But the
prolific would cease to be prolific unless the
devourer, as a sea received
the excess of his delights. Some will say: 'Is
not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: 'God only acts & is, in existing
beings or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they
should be enemies: whoever
tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy
existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Jesus
Christ did not wish to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the parable of sheep
and goats!& He says: 'I
came not to send peace, but a sword. ' Messiah or
Satan or tempter was
formerly thought to be one of the antediluvians
who are our energies.