HE gardener bade Arcade3 and Zita sit down in an arbour walled with wild bryony, at the far end of the orchard4.
"Arcade," said the beautiful Archangel, "Nectaire will perhaps reveal to you to-day the things you are burning to know. Ask him to speak."
Arcade did so and old Nectaire, laying down his pipe, began as follows:—
"I knew him. He was the most beautiful of all the Seraphim6. He shone with intelligence and daring. His great heart was big with all the virtues8 born of pride: frankness, courage, constancy in trial, indomitable hope. Long, long ago, ere Time was, in the boreal sky where gleam the seven magnetic stars, he dwelt in a palace of diamond and gold,[165] where the air was ever tremulous with the beating of wings and with songs of triumph. Iahveh, on his mountain, was jealous of Lucifer. You both know it: angels like unto men feel love and hatred9 quicken within them. Capable, at times, of generous resolves, they too often follow their own interests and yield to fear. Then, as now, they showed themselves, for the most part, incapable10 of lofty thoughts, and in the fear of the Lord lay their sole virtue7. Lucifer, who held vile11 things in proud disdain12, despised this rabble13 of commonplace spirits for ever wallowing in a life of feasts and pleasure. But to those who were possessed14 of a daring spirit, a restless soul, to those fired with a wild love of liberty, he proffered15 friendship, which was returned with adoration16. These latter deserted17 in a mass the mountain of God and yielded to the Seraph5 the homage18 which That Other would fain have kept for himself alone.
"I ranked among the Dominations, and my name, Alaciel, was not unknown to fame. To satisfy my mind—that was ever tormented19 with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and understanding—I observed the nature of things, I studied the properties of minerals, air, and water. I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of[166] itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture22, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt. These feelings drew me towards the Seraph. I admired him, I loved him. I dwelt in his light. When at length it appeared that a choice had to be made between him and That Other I ranged myself on the side of Lucifer and knew no other aim than to serve him, no other desire than to share his lot.
"War having become inevitable23, he prepared for it with indefatigable24 vigilance and all the resourcefulness of a far-seeing mind. Making the Thrones and Dominations into Chalybes and Cyclopes, he drew forth21 iron from the mountains bordering his domain25; iron, which he valued more than gold, and forged weapons in the caverns26 of Heaven. Then in the desert plain of the North he assembled myriads27 of Spirits, armed them, taught them, and drilled them. Although prepared in secret, the enterprise was too vast for his adversary28 not to be soon aware of it. It might in truth be said that he had always foreseen and dreaded29 it, for he had made a citadel30 of his abode31 and a warlike host of his angels, and he gave himself the name of the God of Hosts. He made ready his thunderbolts. More than half of the children of Heaven remained[167] faithful to him; thronging32 round him he beheld33 obedient souls and patient hearts. The Archangel Michael, who knew not fear, took command of these docile34 troops. Lucifer, as soon as he saw that his army could gain no more in numbers or in warlike skill, moved it swiftly against the foe35, and promising36 his angels riches and glory marched at their head towards the mountain upon whose summit stands the Throne of the Universe. For three days our host swept onward37 over the ethereal plains. Above our heads streamed the black standards of revolt. And now, behold38, the Mountain of God shone rosy39 in the orient sky and our chief scanned with his eyes the glittering ramparts. Beneath the sapphire40 walls the foe was drawn41 up in battle array, and, while we marched clad in our iron and bronze, they shone resplendent in gold and precious stones.
"Their gonfalons of red and blue floated in the breeze, and lightning flashed from the points of their lances. In a little while the armies were only sundered42 one from the other by a narrow strip of level and deserted ground, and at this sight even the bravest shuddered43 as they thought that there in bloody44 conflict their fate would soon be sealed.
"Angels, as you know, never die. But when bronze and iron, diamond point or flaming sword tear their ethereal substance, the pain they feel is more acute than men may suffer, for their flesh is[168] more exquisitely45 delicate; and should some essential organ be destroyed, they fall inert46 and, slowly decomposing47, are resolved into clouds and during long ?ons float insensible in the cold ether. And when at length they resume spirit and form they fail to recover full memory of their past life. Therefore it is but natural that angels shrink from suffering, and the bravest among them is troubled at the thought of being reft of light and sweet remembrance. Were it otherwise the angelic race would know neither the delight of battle nor the glory of sacrifice. Those who, before the beginning of Time, fought in the Empyrean for or against the God of Armies, would have taken part without honour in mock battles, and it would not now become me to say to you, my children, with rightful pride:
"'Lo, I was there!'
"Lucifer gave the signal for the onset48 and led the assault. We fell upon the enemy, thinking to destroy him then and there and carry the sacred citadel at the first onslaught. The soldiers of the jealous God, less fiery49, but no whit50 less firm than ours, remained immovable. The Archangel Michael commanded them with the calmness and resolution of a mighty51 spirit. Thrice we strove to break through their lines, thrice they opposed to our ironclad breast the flaming points of their lances, swift to pierce the stoutest52 cuirass. In millions the glorious bodies fell. At length our right wing[169] pierced the enemy's left and we beheld the Principalities, the Powers, the Virtues, the Dominations, and the Thrones turn and flee in full career; while the Angels of the Third Choir53, flying distractedly above them, covered them with a snow of feathers mingled54 with a rain of blood. We sped in pursuit of them amid the débris of chariots and broken weapons, and we spurred their nimble flight. Suddenly a storm of cries amazed us. It grew louder and nearer. With desperate shrieks55 and triumphal clamour the right wing of the enemy, the giant archangels of the Most High, had flung themselves upon our left flank and broken it. Thus we were forced to abandon the pursuit of the fugitives56 and hasten to the rescue of our own shattered troops. Our prince flew to rally them, and re-established the conflict. But the left wing of the enemy, whose ruin he had not quite consummated57, no longer pressed by lance or arrow, regained58 courage, returned, and faced us yet again. Night fell upon the dubious59 field. While under the shelter of darkness, in the still, silent air stirred ever and anon by the moans of the wounded, his forces were resting from their toils61, Lucifer began to make ready for the next day's battle. Before dawn the trumpets62 sounded the reveille. Our warriors63 surprised the enemy at the hour of prayer, put them to rout64, and long and fierce was the carnage that ensued. When all had either fallen or fled, the[170] Archangel Michael, none with him save a few companions with four wings of flame, still resisted the onslaughts of a countless65 host. They fell back ceaselessly opposing their breasts to us, and Michael still displayed an impassible countenance66. The sun had run a third of its course when we commenced to scale the Mountain of God. An arduous67 ascent68 it was: sweat ran from our brows, a dazzling light blinded us. Weighed down with steel, our feathery wings could not sustain us, but hope gave us wings that bore us up. The beautiful Seraph, pointing with glittering hand, mounting ever higher and higher, showed us the way. All day long we slowly clomb the lofty heights which at evening were robed in azure69, rose, and violet. The starry70 host appearing in the sky seemed as the reflection of our own arms. Infinite silence reigned71 above us. We went on, intoxicated72 with hope; all at once from the darkened sky lightning darted73 forth, the thunder muttered, and from the cloudy mountain-top fell fire from Heaven. Our helmets, our breast-plates were running with flames, and our bucklers broke under bolts sped by invisible hands. Lucifer, in the storm of fire, retained his haughty74 mien75. In vain the lightning smote76 him; mightier77 than ever he stood erect78, and still defied the foe. At length, the thunder, making the mountain totter79, flung us down pell-mell, huge fragments of sapphire and ruby80 crashing down with us as we fell,[171] and we rolled inert, swooning, for a period whose duration none could measure.
"I awoke in a darkness filled with lamentations. And when my eyes had grown accustomed to the dense81 shadows I saw round me my companions in arms, scattered82 in thousands on the sulphurous ground, lit by fitful gleams of livid light. My eyes perceived but fields of lava83, smoking craters84, and poisonous swamps.
"Mountains of ice and shadowy seas shut in the horizon. A brazen85 sky hung heavy on our brows. And the horror of the place was such that we wept as we sat, crouched86 elbow on knee, our cheeks resting on our clenched87 hands.
"But soon, raising my eyes, I beheld the Seraph standing20 before me like a tower. Over his pristine88 splendour sorrow had cast its mantle89 of sombre majesty90.
"'Comrades,' said he, 'we must be happy and rejoice, for behold we are delivered from celestial91 servitude. Here we are free, and it were better to be free in Hell than serve in Heaven. We are not conquered, since the will to conquer is still ours. We have caused the Throne of the jealous God to totter; by our hands it shall fall. Arise, therefore, and be of good heart.'
"Thereupon, at his command, we piled mountain upon mountain and on the topmost peak we reared[172] engines which flung molten rocks against the divine habitations. The celestial host was taken unaware92 and from the abodes93 of glory there issued groans94 and cries of terror. And even then we thought to re-enter in triumph on our high estate, but the Mountain of God was wreathed with lightnings, and thunderbolts, falling on our fortress95, crushed it to dust. After this fresh disaster, the Seraph remained awhile in meditation96, his head buried in his hands. At length he raised his darkened visage. Now he was Satan, greater than Lucifer. Steadfast97 and loyal the angels thronged98 about him.
"'Friends,' he said, 'if victory is denied us now, it is because we are neither worthy99 nor capable of victory. Let us determine wherein we have failed. Nature shall not be ruled, the sceptre of the Universe shall not be grasped, Godhead shall not be won, save by knowledge alone. We must conquer the thunder; to that task we must apply ourselves unwearyingly. It is not blind courage (no one this day has shown more courage than have you) which will win us the courts of Heaven; but rather study and reflection. In these silent realms where we are fallen, let us meditate100, seeking the hidden causes of things; let us observe the course of Nature; let us pursue her with compelling ardour and all-conquering desire; let us strive to penetrate101 her infinite grandeur102, her infinite minuteness. Let us seek to know when she is barren and when she brings forth fruit; how she[173] makes cold and heat, joy and sorrow, life and death; how she assembles and disperses103 her elements, how she produces both the light air we breathe and the rocks of diamond and sapphire whence we have been precipitated104, the divine fire wherewith we have been scarred and the soaring thought which stirs our minds. Torn with dire105 wounds, scorched106 by flame and by ice, let us render thanks to Fate which has sedulously107 opened our eyes, and let us rejoice at our lot. It is through pain that, suffering a first experience of Nature, we have been roused to know her and to subdue108 her. When she obeys us we shall be as gods. But even though she hide her mysteries for ever from us, deny us arms and keep the secret of the thunder, we still must needs congratulate ourselves on having known pain, for pain has revealed to us new feelings, more precious and more sweet than those experienced in eternal bliss109, and inspired us with love and pity unknown to Heaven.'
"These words of the Seraph changed our hearts and opened up fresh hope to us. Our hearts were filled with a great longing110 for knowledge and love.
"Meanwhile the Earth was coming into being. Its immense and nebulous orb111 took on hourly more shape and more certainty of outline. The waters which fed the seaweed, the madrepores and shellfish and bore the light flotilla of the nautilus upon[174] their bosom113, no longer covered it in its entirety; they began to sink into beds, and already continents appeared, where, on the warm slime, amphibious monsters crawled. Then the mountains were overspread with forests, and divers114 races of animals commenced to feed on the grass, the moss115, the berries on the trees, and on the acorns116. Then there took possession of cavernous shelters under the rocks, a being who was cunning to wound with a sharpened stone the savage117 beasts, and by his ruses118 to overcome the ancient denizens119 of forest, plain, and mountain.
"Man entered painfully on his kingdom. He was defenceless and naked. His scanty120 hair afforded him but little protection from the cold. His hands ended in nails too frail121 to do battle with the claws of wild beasts, but the position of his thumb, in opposition122 to the rest of his fingers, allowed him easily to grasp the most diverse objects and endowed him with skill in default of strength. Without differing essentially123 from the rest of the animals, he was more capable than any others of observing and comparing. As he drew from his throat various sounds, it occurred to him to designate by a particular inflexion of the voice whatever impinged upon his mind, and by this sequence of different sounds he was enabled to fix and communicate his ideas. His miserable124 lot and his painstaking125 spirit aroused the sympathy of the vanquished126 angels, who discerned in him an audacity127 equalling their[175] own, and the germ of the pride that was at once their glory and their bane. They came in large numbers to be near him, to dwell on this young earth whither their wings wafted128 them in effortless flight. And they took pleasure in sharpening his talents and fostering his genius. They taught him to clothe himself in the skins of wild beasts, to roll stones before the mouths of caves to keep out the tigers and bears. They taught him how to make the flame burst forth by twirling a stick among the dried leaves and to foster the sacred fire upon the hearth129. Inspired by the ingenious spirits he dared to cross the rivers in the hollowed trunks of cleft130 trees, he invented the wheel, the grinding-mill, and the plough; the share tore up the earth and the wound brought forth fruit, and the grain offered to him who ground it divine nourishment131. He moulded vessels132 in clay, and out of the flint he fashioned various tools.
"In fine, taking up our abode among mankind, we consoled them and taught them. We were not always visible to them, but of an evening, at the turn of the road, we would appear to them under forms often strange and weird133, at times dignified134 and charming, and we adopted at will the appearance of a monster of the woods and waters, of a venerable old man, of a beautiful child, or of a woman with broad hips135. Sometimes we would mock them in our songs or test their intelligence by some cunning[176] prank136. There were certain of us of a rather turbulent humour who loved to tease their women and children, but though lowly folk, they were our brothers, and we were never loath137 to come to their aid. Through our care their intelligence developed sufficiently138 to attain139 to mistaken ideas, and to acquire erroneous notions of the relations of cause and effect. As they supposed that some magic bond existed between the reality and its counterfeit140 presentment, they covered the walls of their caves with figures of animals and carved in ivory images of the reindeer142 and the mammoth143 in order to secure as prey144 the creatures they represented. Centuries passed by with infinite slowness while their genius was coming to birth. We sent them happy thoughts in dreams, inspired them to tame the horse, to castrate the bull, to teach the dog to guard the sheep. They created the family and the tribe. It came to pass one day that one of their wandering tribes was assailed145 by ferocious146 hunters. Forthwith the young men of the tribe formed an enclosed ring with their chariots, and in it they shut their women, children, old people, cattle, and treasures, and from the platform of their chariots they hurled147 murderous stones at their assailants. Thus was formed the first city. Born in misery148 and condemned149 to do murder by the law of Iahveh, man put his whole heart into doing battle, and to war he was indebted for his noblest virtues. He hallowed[177] with his blood that sacred love of country which should (if man fulfils his destiny to the very end) enfold the whole earth in peace. One of us, D?dalus, brought him the axe150, the plumb-line, and the sail. Thus we rendered the existence of mortals less hard and difficult. By the shores of the lakes they built dwellings151 of osier, where they might enjoy a meditative152 quiet unknown to the other inhabitants of the earth, and when they had learned to appease153 their hunger without too painful efforts we breathed into their hearts the love of beauty.
"They raised up pyramids, obelisks154, towers, colossal155 statues which smiled stiff and uncouth156, and genetic157 symbols. Having learnt to know us or trying at least to divine what manner of beings we were, they felt both friendship and fear for us. The wisest among them watched us with sacred awe112 and pondered our teaching. In their gratitude158 the people of Greece and of Asia consecrated159 to us stones, trees, shadowy woods; offered us victims, and sang us hymns160; in fact we became gods in their sight, and they called us Horus, Isis, Astarte, Zeus, Cybele, Demeter, and Triptolemus. Satan was worshipped under the names of Evan, Dionysus, Iacchus, and Len?us. He showed in his various manifestations161 all the strength and beauty which it is given to mortals to conceive. His eyes had the sweetness of the wood-violet, his lips were brilliant with the ruby-red of the pomegranate, a down finer[178] than the velvet162 of the peach covered his cheeks and his chin: his fair hair, wound like a diadem163 and knotted loosely on the crown of his head, was encircled with ivy164. He charmed the wild beasts, and penetrating165 into the deep forests drew to him all wild spirits, every thing that climbed in trees and peered through the branches with wild and timid gaze. On all these creatures fierce and fearful, that lived on bitter berries and beneath whose hairy breasts a wild heart beat, half-human creatures of the woods—on all he bestowed166 loving-kindness and grace, and they followed him drunk with joy and beauty. He planted the vine and showed mortals how to crush the grapes underfoot to make the wine flow. Magnificent and benign167, he fared across the world, a long procession following in his train. To bear him company I took the form of a satyr; from my brow sprang two budding horns. My nose was flat and my ears were pointed168. Glands169, like those of the goat, hung on my neck, a goat's tail moved with my moving loins, and my hairy legs ended in a black cloven hoof170 which beat the ground in cadence171.
"Dionysus fared on his triumphal march over the world. In his company I passed through Lydia, the Phrygian fields, the scorching172 plains of Persia, Media bristling173 with hoar-frost, Arabia Felix, and rich Asia where flourishing cities were laved by the waves of the sea. He proceeded on a car drawn by lions and lynxes, to the sound of flutes174, cymbals175, and[179] drums, invented for his mysteries. Bacchantes, Thyades, and M?nads, girt with the dappled fawn176-skin, waved the thyrsus encircled with ivy. He bore in his train the Satyrs, whose joyous177 troop I led, Sileni, Pans, and Centaurs178. Under his feet flowers and fruit sprang to life, and striking the rocks with his wand he made limpid179 streams gush180 forth. In the month of the Vintage he visited Greece, and the villagers ran forth to meet him, stained with the green and ruddy juices of the plants, they wore masks of wood, or bark, or leaves; in their hands they bore earthen cups, and danced wanton dances. Their womenfolk, imitating the companions of the God, their heads wreathed with green smilax, fastened round their supple181 loins skins of fawn or goat. The virgins182 twined about their throats garlands of fig141 leaves, they kneaded cakes of flour, and bore the Phallus in the mystic basket. And the vine-dressers, all daubed with lees of wine, standing up in their wains and bandying mockery or abuse with the passers-by, invented Tragedy.
"Truly, it was not in dreaming beside a fountain, but by dint183 of strenuous184 toil60 that Dionysus taught them to grow plants and to make them bring forth succulent fruits. And while he pondered the art of transforming the rough woodlanders into a race that should love music and submit to just laws, more than once over his brow, burning with the fire of enthusiasm, did melancholy185 and gloomy fever[180] pass. But his profound knowledge and his friendship for mankind enabled him to triumph over every obstacle. O days divine! Beautiful dawn of life! We led the Bacchanals on the leafy summits of the mountains and on the yellow shores of the seas. The Naiads and the Oreads mingled with us at our play. Aphrodite at our coming rose from the foam186 of the sea to smile upon us."
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| 长笛( flute的名词复数 )； 细长香槟杯（形似长笛） | |
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| 处女，童男( virgin的名词复数 )； 童贞玛利亚（耶稣之母） | |
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dint
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