 The argument lyrics ( Ulver )   
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 Rate The Argument
Artist : Ulver
Song : The argument
(plate 2)
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd
air;
hungry clouds swag on the deep, once meek, and in
a perilous path,
the just man kept his course along the vale of
death.
Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the
barren heath
sing the honey bees, then the perilous path was
planted:
and a riverland a spring on every cliff and tomb:
and on the bleached bones red clay brought forth.
Till the villain left the paths of ease, to walk
in perilous paths,
and drive the just man into barren climes.
Now the sneaking serpent walks in mild humility,
and the just man rages in the wilds where lions
roam.
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd
air;
hungry clouds swag on the deep.
(plate 3)
As a new heaven is begun,
and it is now thirty-three years since its
advent:
the eternal hell revives.
And lo! Swedenborg is the angel sitting at the
tomb:
his writings are the linen clothes folded up.
Now is the dominion of Edom,& the return of Adam
into Paradise;
see Isaiah XXXIV & XXXV chap: without contraries
is no progression.
Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy,
love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious
call good & evil.
Good is the passive that obeys reason.
Evil is the active springing from energy.
Good is heaven, evil is hell
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