/lit/ - Literature

Anyone here know of any legit translations of Miguel Serrano available in pdf or epub? The ones on archive.org are supposedly just a google translate job thrown together and presented as genuine translations.

Until then the Greeks had been involuntarily compelled immediately to associate all experiences with their myths, indeed they had to comprehend them only through this association: whereby even the most immediate present necessarily appeared to them sub specie æterni and in a certain sense as timeless. Into this current of the timeless, however, the state as well as art plunged in order to find repose from the burden and eagerness of the moment. And a people—for the rest, also a man—is worth just as much only as its ability to impress on its experiences the seal of eternity: for it is thus, as it were, desecularised, and reveals its unconscious inner conviction of the relativity of time and of the true, that is, the metaphysical significance of life. The contrary happens when a people begins to comprehend itself historically and to demolish the mythical bulwarks around it: with which there is usually connected a marked secularisation, a breach with the unconscious metaphysics of its earlier existence, in all ethical consequences. Greek art and especially Greek tragedy delayed[Pg 178] above all the annihilation of myth: it was necessary to annihilate these also to be able to live detached from the native soil, unbridled in the wilderness of thought, custom, and action. Even in such circumstances this metaphysical impulse still endeavours to create for itself a form of apotheosis (weakened, no doubt) in the Socratism of science urging to life: but on its lower stage this same impulse led only to a feverish search, which gradually merged into a pandemonium of myths and superstitions accumulated from all quarters: in the midst of which, nevertheless, the Hellene sat with a yearning heart till he contrived, as Græculus, to mask his fever with Greek cheerfulness and Greek levity, or to narcotise himself completely with some gloomy Oriental superstition.

"Long time ago, I in my childhood,
lay 'neath the stars on long-buried ATLANTIS,
dreaming of mysteries far above men.
Then in my heart grew there a great longing
to conquer the pathway that led to the stars.
Year after year, I sought after wisdom,
seeking new knowledge, following the way,
until at last my SOUL, in great travail,
broke from its bondage and bounded away.
Free was I from the bondage of earth-men.
Free from the body, I flashed through the night.
Unlocked at last for me was the star-space.
Free was I from the bondage of night.
Now to the end of space sought I wisdom,
far beyond knowledge of finite man."

"Adepts have there been filled with the blackness,
struggling always against the Light;
but others there are who, filled with brightness,
have ever conquered the darkness of night.
Where e'er ye may be in all ages and plane,
surely, ye shall know of the battle with night."

"Long ages ago. The SUNS of the Morning descending,
found the world filled with night,
there in that past, begun the struggle,
the age old Battle Darkness & Light."

"Far have I been on my journey through SPACE-TIME,
even to the end of space of this cycle.
Aye, glimpsed the HOUNDS of the Barrier,
lying in wait for he who would pass them.
In that space where time exists not,
faintly I sensed the guardians of cycles.
Move they only through angles.
Free are they not of the curved dimensions.
Strange and terrible are the HOUNDS of the Barrier.
Follow they consciousness to the limits of space."

"Know ye, the HOUNDS of the Barrier
move only through angles and
never through curves of space.
Only by moving through curves can ye escape them,
for in angles they will pursue thee."

"Man is a flame bound to a mountain,
but WE in our cycle shall ever be free."

"Knew I then even Infinity is moving on
to some unthinkable end.
Saw I that the Cosmos is Order
and part of a movement that extends to all space,
a party of an Order of Orders,
constantly moving in a harmony of space.
Saw I the wheeling of cycles
like vast circles across the sky.
Knew I then that all that has being
is growing to meet yet another being
in a far-off grouping of space and of time.
Knew I then that in Words is power
to open the planes that are hidden from man.
Aye, that even in Words lies hidden the key
that will open above and below."

"Ye, as a child had not the knowledge
that came to ye when ye became a man.
Compare ye the cycles to man
in his journey from birth unto death,
and see in the cycle below thee
the child with the knowledge he has;
and see ye yourself as the child grown older,
advancing in knowledge as time passes on.
See ye, We, also, the child grown to manhood
with the knowledge and wisdom that came with the years.
So also, O Thoth, are the cycles of consciousness,
children in different stages of growth,
yet all from the one Source, the Wisdom,
and all to the Wisdom returning again."

I want to find apolitical frens to practice Hellenism or any other polytheist religion actually. I'm a newbie who recently decided to start practicing on my own, also I've been a long time believer on Neoplatonism until I made my decision. I looked around everywhere but I can't find a sane pagan community out there, i have either to settle with /pol/tards or radleft SJWs, both groups disrepect the Gods and use indo-european polytheism to push their identity politics. Does anybody else here feel the same way?

Where do I start with Immanuel Kant?

Bonus: where to start with nietzsche?

>>9077199

I've just always neglected it because it looked too primitive. I don't have an extensive knowledge of art history but I'm not a dumb /pol/ reactionary either. Lay off with your annoying frog pictures!

>>8282420
Interesting point about her age. I want my story to illustrate my dilemma with women, the two main vampires being girls respectively and the ones trying to chase them down three men. Alice, the 12 year old embodies the dangerous nature of innocence, while the other vampire, Adrianne, appears to be a beautiful young woman, who represents the dangerous nature of a woman's sexual appeal. Throughout the story the two vampires use their individual charms to murder men. I'd worry that Alice would lose that feigned innocence if I increased her age, but it would allow me to tie in themes of the budding sexuality of adolescence that would be unique to her.

I was wondering if anybody had epubs of the polish, russian symbolist, greek,Book of Decadence (2 vols) and monsieur phocas books? I cant find them anywhere. i guess a folder with all the dedalus books?

thank you