Sa idam uktavan:*
in the beginning, out of Chaos,
no light, but rather darkness visible
sed inter tenebras° the mind. . .
in itself can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven
îmi amintescˆ the palpable obscure
et etiam tam jetum yatate,ˆˆ
the void profound of unessential night
et for evil only good, eu cad°°
where all life dies, death lives
nu va place?**
through the void immense to search
with wandering quest a place foretold. . .
kartum na yujyate***
The Sanskrit term aha embraces all the letters of the alphabet in her depth, symbolically embracing the whole universe.
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