Heliogabalus by Antonin Artaud;

Author:Antonin Artaud; [Artaud, Antonin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2020-05-11T06:21:50+00:00

What differentiates us from the pagans is that, at the root of all their beliefs, there is a dreadful effort not to believe in man, in order to maintain contact with the whole of creation, with divinity, that is.

I know well enough that the smallest impulse of love brings us nearer God than all the knowledge we may have about creation and its stages.

But Love, which is a power, involves Will. One doesn’t love without the will, which passes through the consciousness; – it’s the awareness of the consensual separation that leads us to detachment from things, that leads us back to the unity of God. One wins love first through the consciousness, and thereafter through the strength of the love.

However, in my father’s house there are many mansions. And he who is cast onto the earth with the consciousness of an idiot, after God knows what travails and sins in other states or other worlds – which have brought on his idiocy; but with just enough of the awareness he needs in order to love, and to love in a detached manner, with no messing about, on a wonderful spontaneous impulse; whom everything that is the world eludes, and who knows of love only the flame – the flame uninfluenced by the hearth and home mob – will have less than his neighbour whose mind joins up all creation and to whom love is a finicky and horrid separation.

Yet – and it’s always a tale of a thimbleful, at that – he shall have all he can absorb. He’ll enjoy an exclusive bliss, but one which, filling his cup, gives him too the feeling of infinity.

Until the day when this meek wretch is swept away like everything else. His sense of infinity is snatched away from him. Great and small, we shall all be judged according to our delightful paradise, according to that bliss which isn’t everything, I mean it’s not the be all and end all, the Almighty, i.e. Nothing. We shall be rendered down, merged within the One, the Only, the great cosmic One that soon shall give way to the infinite Zero of God.

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