a long time I am convinced that if a total and absolute evil take on human form, manifests itself not as a hideous monster or an apparition cloaked black with glowing eyes, but rather as a deadly-looking common, harmless, perhaps even lovable ... a lady of middle age, perhaps, a scholar ... or maybe a little old. (nicolas Keizo, Beneath the moss)
"our foolish ancestors teach that we might become wise by studying science books, tinkering with test tubes, geological samples, the microscopic and so on. But those who have rejected these follies know that the soul is made wise by the contemplation of mystical ceremonies and rites of strange and elaborate. In these things, he discovered a wonderful language that spoke of the mystery at the same time more and more secretly credited directly to any doctrine, and found that, in a sense, the whole world is nothing but a big ceremony "
(Arthur Machen)
"believe that many of them ... the Worm, the Virgin and the others .. are nothing but symbolic of purity or corruption? In this case, think again "
(Nicolas Keizo)
" And my heart was full of wicked songs they poured, and I wanted to grimace and contort as they did ... So I repeated the spell, and I touched my eyes and lips and hair, and spoke the ancient words .. and I was pleased to be able to do well, and danced, danced, sang extraordinary songs in my head ... I eccheggiavano songs full of words that they should not be pronounced it scritte.Poi assumed expressions of the faces on the rocks, and I like them dimenai that wiggle, and lay on the ground like the dead. (Arthur Machen)
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