it's not as bad as it sounds....
Of course, it's all a fake.
Hell never really did exist,
and neither did the Devil,
although he acquired many names,
like Satan, Beelsebub (the lord of flies)
and others. Satan was originally
just a local tribal idol,
just like Pan or Baal or Ra,
but of some Arab people,
and the place called Hell
was the inferno of the Nordic winter,
ordinary life but at its hardest.
It's the human mind which has turned hell
into some nightmare of imagination,
and since fantasy can never be restricted,
so has Hell been turned into a whole mythology
of most incredible absurd and weird stuff,
(just go botanizing inte Dante,)
all reflecting the subconscious
and man's less attractive sides,
his mental weakness and neurotic nature;
so the devil which we all must fight
is just the enemy within us,
everyone himself is his worst enemy,
all fears are of the unknown of our minds,
and there is nothing evil
but our thinking makes it so,
as someone said already
many hundred years ago.
Since there are many sides to our imagination,
there are many aspects of this hell
of our invention
and no end to it;
just let it out,
and it will vanish
like a dream
and like all dreams most fascinating.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-12-12 at 14:26
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Hell – an introduction
Of course, it's all a fake.
Hell never really did exist,
and neither did the Devil,
although he acquired many names,
like Satan, Beelsebub (the lord of flies)
and others. Satan was originally
just a local tribal idol,
just like Pan or Baal or Ra,
but of some Arab people,
and the place called Hell
was the inferno of the Nordic winter,
ordinary life but at its hardest.
It's the human mind which has turned hell
into some nightmare of imagination,
and since fantasy can never be restricted,
so has Hell been turned into a whole mythology
of most incredible absurd and weird stuff,
(just go botanizing inte Dante,)
all reflecting the subconscious
and man's less attractive sides,
his mental weakness and neurotic nature;
so the devil which we all must fight
is just the enemy within us,
everyone himself is his worst enemy,
all fears are of the unknown of our minds,
and there is nothing evil
but our thinking makes it so,
as someone said already
many hundred years ago.
Since there are many sides to our imagination,
there are many aspects of this hell
of our invention
and no end to it;
just let it out,
and it will vanish
like a dream
and like all dreams most fascinating.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 425 times
Written on 2006-12-12 at 14:26
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