Ulver The Voice of the Devil Lyrics:
(plate 4) All bibles or sacred codes have been the
causes of the following errors: 1. that man has
two real existing principles: viz: a body & a soul
2. that energy call'd evil is alone from the
body,& that reason, call'd good, is alone from the
soul. 3. that God will torment man in eternity for
following his energies. But following contraries
to these are true: 1. man has no body distinct
from his soul; for that call'd body is a portion
of soul discern'd by the five senses, the chief
inlets of soul in this age. 2. energy is the only
life and is from the body and reason is the bound
and outward circumference of energy. 3. energy is
eternal delight.
(plates 5-6) Those who restrain desire, do so
because theirs is weak enough to be restrained;
and the restrainer or reason usurps its place &
governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by
[ Find more Lyrics on www.mp3lyrics.org/S2ir ]degrees becomes passive, till it is only the
shadow of desire. The history of this is written
in Paradise Lost,& the governor or reason is
call'd Messiah. and the original Archangel, or
possessor of the command of heavenly host, is
call'd the Devil or Satan, and his children are
call'd Sin & Death. But in the book of Job,
Milton's Messiah is call'd Satan. For this history
has been adopted by both parties. It indeed
appear'd to reason as if desire was cast out, but
the Devil's account is, that the Messiah fell &
formed a heaven of what He stole from the abyss.
This is shewn in the gospel, where He prays to the
Father to send the comforter, or desire, that
reason may have ideas to build on, the Jehovah of
the bible being no other than (the Devil den). he
who dwells in flaming fire, know that after
Christ's death, he became Jehovah. But in Milton,
the father is destiny, the son, a ratio of the
five senses,& the holy-ghost, vacuum! Note: the
reason Milton wrote in ferrets when he wrote of
angels & God. And at liberty when of devils &
hell, is because he was a true poet and of the
Devil's party without knowing it.
Lyrics: The Voice of the Devil, Ulver [end]