HE new superstition1 spread at first over Syria and Africa; it won over the seaports2 where the filthy3 rabble4 swarm5, and, penetrating6 into Italy, infected at first the courtesans and the slaves, and then made rapid progress among the middle classes of the towns. But for a long while the country-side remained undisturbed. As in the past, the villagers consecrated8 a pine tree to Diana, and sprinkled it every year with the blood of a young boar; they propitiated9 their Lares with the sacrifice of a sow, and offered to Bacchus—benefactor of mankind—a kid of dazzling whiteness, or if they were too poor for this, at least they had a little wine and a little flour from the vineyard and from the fields for their household gods. We had taught them that it sufficed to approach the altar with clean hands, and that the gods rejoiced over a modest offering.
"Nevertheless, the reign10 of Iahveh proclaimed its advent11 in a hundred places by its extravagances. The Christians12 burnt books, overthrew14 temples, set[190] fire to the towns, and carried on their ravages15 as far as the deserts. There, thousands of unhappy beings, turning their fury against themselves, lacerated their sides with points of steel. And from the whole earth the sighs of voluntary victims rose up to God like songs of praise.
"My shadowy retreat could not escape for long from the fury of their madness.
"On the summit of the hill which overlooked the olive woods, brightened daily with the sounds of my flute16, had stood since the earliest days of the Pax Romana, a small marble temple, round as the huts of our forefathers17. It had no walls, but on a base of seven steps, sixteen columns rose in a circle with the acanthus on the capitals, bearing a cupola of white tiles. This cupola sheltered a statue of Love fashioning his bow, the work of an Athenian sculptor18. The child seemed to breathe, joy was welling from his lips, all his limbs were harmonious19 and polished. I honoured this image of the most powerful of all the gods, and I taught the villagers to bear to him as an offering a cup crowned with verbena and filled with wine two summers old.
"One day, when seated as my custom was at the feet of the god, pondering precepts20 and songs, an unknown man, wild-looking, with unkempt hair, approached the temple, sprang at one bound up the marble steps, and with savage21 glee exclaimed:[191]
"'Die, poisoner of souls, and joy and beauty perish with you.' He spoke22 thus, and drawing an axe23 from his girdle raised it against the god. I stayed his arm, I threw him down, and trampled24 him under my feet.
"'Demon,' he cried desperately25, 'suffer me to overturn this idol26, and you may slay27 me afterwards.'
"I heeded28 not his atrocious plea, but leaned with all my might on his chest, which cracked under my knee, and, squeezing his throat with my two hands, I strangled the impious one.
"While he lay there, with purple face and lolling tongue, at the feet of the smiling god, I went to purify myself at the sacred stream. Then leaving this land, now the prey29 of the Christian13, I passed through Gaul and gained the banks of the Sa?ne, whither Dionysus had, in days gone by, carried the vine. The god of the Christians had not yet been proclaimed to this happy people. They worshipped for its beauty a leafy beech-tree, whose honoured branches swept the ground, and they hung fillets of wool thereon. They also worshipped a sacred stream and set up images of clay in a dripping grotto30. They made offering of little cheeses and a bowl of milk to the Nymphs of the woods and mountains.
"But soon an apostle of sorrow was sent to them by the new God. He was drier than a smoked fish. Although attenuated31 with fasting and watching, he taught with unabated ardour all manner of[192] gloomy mysteries. He loved suffering, and thought it good; his anger fell upon all that was beautiful, comely32, and joyous33. The sacred tree fell beneath his hatchet34. He hated the Nymphs, because they were beautiful, and he flung imprecations at them when their shining limbs gleamed among the leaves at evening, and he held my melodious35 flute in aversion. The poor wretch36 thought that there were certain forms of words wherewith to put to flight the deathless spirits that dwell in the cool groves37, and in the depths of the woods and on the tops of the mountains. He thought to conquer us with a few drops of water over which he had pronounced certain words and made certain gestures. The Nymphs, to avenge38 themselves, appeared to him at nightfall and inflamed39 him with desire which the foolish knave41 thought animal; then they fled, their laughter scattered42 like grain over the fields, while their victim lay tossing with burning limbs on his couch of leaves. Thus do the divine nymphs laugh at exorcisers, and mock the wicked and their sordid43 chastity.
"The apostle did not do as much harm as he wished, because his teaching was given to the simple souls living in obedience44 to Nature, and because the mediocrity of most of mankind is such that they gain but little from the principles inculcated in them. The little wood in which I dwelt belonged to a Gaul of senatorial family, who retained some traces of[193] Latin elegance45. He loved his young freed-woman and shared with her his bed of broidered purple. His slaves cultivated his garden and his vineyard; he was a poet and sang, in imitation of Ausonius, Venus whipping her son with roses. Although a Christian, he offered me milk, fruit, and vegetables as if I were the genius of the place. In return I charmed his idle moments with the music of my flute, and I gave him happy dreams. In fact, these peaceful Gauls knew very little of Iahveh and his son.
"But now behold46 fires looming47 on the horizon, and ashes driven by the wind fall within our forest glades48. Peasants come driving a long file of waggons49 along the roads or urging their flocks before them. Cries of terror rise from the villages, 'The Burgundians are upon us!'
"Now one horseman is seen, lance in hand, clad in shining bronze, his long red hair falling in two plaits on his shoulders. Then come two, then twenty, then thousands, wild and blood-stained; old men and children they put to the sword, ay, even aged50 grandams whose grey hairs cleave51 to the soles of the slaughterer's boots, mingled52 with the brains of babes new-born. My young Gaul and his young freed-woman stain with their blood the couch broidered with narcissi. The barbarians53 burn the basilicas to roast their oxen whole, shatter the amphor?, and drain the wine in the mud of the[194] flooded cellars. Their women accompany them, huddled54, half naked, in their war chariots. When the Senate, the dwellers55 in the cities, and the leaders of the churches had perished in the flames, the Burgundians, soddened56 with wine, lay down to slumber57 beneath the arcades58 of the Forum59. Two weeks later one of them might have been seen smiling in his shaggy beard at the little child whom, on the threshold of their dwelling60, his fair-haired spouse61 gathers in her arms; while another, kindling62 the fire of his forge, hammers out his iron with measured stroke; another sings beneath the oak tree to his assembled comrades of the gods and heroes of his race; and yet others spread out for sale stones fallen from Heaven, aurochs' horns, and amulets63. And the former inhabitants of the country, regaining64 courage little by little, crept from the woods where they had fled for refuge, and returned to rebuild their burnt-down cabins, plough their fields, and prune65 their vines.
"Once more life resumed its normal course; but those times were the most wretched that mankind had yet experienced. The barbarians swarmed66 over the whole Empire. Their ways were uncouth67, and as they nurtured68 feelings of vengeance69 and greed, they firmly believed in the ransom70 of sin.
"The fable71 of Iahveh and his son pleased them, and they believed it all the more easily in that it was taught them by the Romans whom they knew[195] to be wiser than themselves, and to whose arts and mode of life they yielded secret admiration72. Alas73! the heritage of Greece and Rome had fallen into the hands of fools. All knowledge was lost. In those days it was held to be a great merit to sing among the choir74, and those who remembered a few sentences from the Bible passed for prodigious75 geniuses. There were still poets as there were birds, but their verse went lame40 in every foot. The ancient demons76, the good genii of mankind, shorn of their honours, driven forth77, pursued, hunted down, remained hidden in the woods. There, if they still showed themselves to men, they adopted, to hold them in awe78, a terrible face, a red, green, or black skin, baleful eyes, an enormous mouth fringed with boars' teeth, horns, a tail, and sometimes a human face on their bellies79. The nymphs remained fair, and the barbarians, ignorant of the winsome80 names they bore in other days, called them fairies, and, imputing81 to them a capricious character and puerile82 tastes, both feared and loved them.
"We had suffered a grievous fall, and our ranks were sadly thinned; nevertheless we did not lose courage and, maintaining a laughing aspect and a benevolent83 spirit, we were in those direful days the real friends of mankind. Perceiving that the barbarians grew daily less sombre and less ferocious84, we lent ourselves to the task of conversing85 with them under all sorts of disguises. We incited86 them, with[196] a thousand precautions, and by prudent87 circumlocutions, not to acknowledge the old Iahveh as an infallible master, not blindly to obey his orders, and not to fear his menaces. When need was, we had recourse to magic. We exhorted88 them unceasingly to study nature and to strive to discover the traces of ancient wisdom.
"These warriors89 from the North—rude though they were—were acquainted with some mechanical arts. They thought they saw combats in the heavens; the sound of the harp90 drew tears from their eyes; and perchance they had souls capable of greater things than the degenerate91 Gauls and Romans whose lands they had invaded. They knew not how to hew92 stone or to polish marble; but they caused porphyry and columns to be brought from Rome and from Ravenna; their chief men took for their seal a gem93 engraved94 by a Greek in the days when Beauty reigned95 supreme96. They raised walls with bricks, cunningly arranged like ears of corn, and succeeded in building quite pleasing-looking churches with cornices upheld by consoles depicting97 grim faces, and heavy capitals whereon were represented monsters devouring98 one another.
"We taught them letters and sciences. A mouthpiece of their god, one Gerbert, took lessons in physics, arithmetic, and music with us, and it was said that he had sold us his soul. Centuries passed, and man's ways remained violent. It was a world[197] given up to fire and blood. The successors of the studious Gerbert, not content with the possession of souls (the profits one gains thereby99 are lighter100 than air), wished to possess bodies also. They pretended that their universal and prescriptive monarchy101 was held from a fisherman on the lake of Tiberias. One of them thought for a moment to prevail over the loutish102 Germanus, successor to Augustus. But finally the spiritual had to come to terms with the temporal, and the nations were torn between two opposing masters.
"Nations took shape amid horrible tumult103. On every side were wars, famines, and internecine104 conflicts. Since they attributed the innumerable ills that fell upon them to their God, they called him the Most Good, not by way of irony105, but because to them the best was he who smote106 the hardest. In those days of violence, to give myself leisure for study I adopted a r?le which may surprise you, but which was exceedingly wise.
"Between the Sa?ne and the mountains of Charolais, where the cattle pasture, there lies a wooded hill sloping gently down to fields watered by a clear stream. There stood a monastery107 celebrated108 throughout the Christian world. I hid my cloven feet under a robe and became a monk109 in this Abbey, where I lived peacefully, sheltered from the men at arms who to friend or foe110 alike showed themselves equally exacting111. Man, who had re[198]lapsed into childhood, had all his lessons to learn over again. Brother Luke, whose cell was next to mine, studied the habits of animals and taught us that the weasel conceives her young within her ear. I culled112 simples in the fields wherewith to soothe113 the sick, who until then were made by way of treatment to touch the relics114 of saints. In the Abbey were several demons similar to myself whom I recognised by their cloven feet and by their kindly115 speech. We joined forces in our endeavours to polish the rough mind of the monks116.
"While the little children played at hop-scotch under the Abbey walls our friends the monks devoted117 themselves to another game equally unprofitable, at which, nevertheless, I joined them, for one must kill time,—that, when one comes to think of it, is the sole business of life. Our game was a game of words which pleased our coarse yet subtle minds, set school fulminating against school, and put all Christendom in an uproar118. We formed ourselves into two opposing camps. One camp maintained that before there were apples there was the Apple; that before there were popinjays there was the Popinjay; that before there were lewd119 and greedy monks there was the Monk, Lewdness120 and Greed; that before there were feet and before there were posteriors in this world the kick in the posterior must have had existence for all eternity121 in the bosom122 of God. The other camp replied that,[199] on the contrary, apples gave man the idea of the apple; popinjays the idea of the popinjay; monks the idea of the monk, greed and lewdness, and that the kick in the posterior existed only after having been duly given and received. The players grew heated and came to fisticuffs. I was an adherent123 of the second party, which satisfied my reason better, and which was, in fact, condemned124 by the Council of Soissons.
"Meanwhile, not content with fighting among themselves, vassal125 against suzerain, suzerain against vassal, the great lords took it into their heads to go and fight in the East. They said, as well as I can remember, that they were going to deliver the tomb of the son of God.
"They said so, but their adventurous126 and covetous127 spirit excited them to go forth and seek lands, women, slaves, gold, myrrh, and incense128. These expeditions, need it be said, proved disastrous129; but our thick-headed compatriots brought back with them the knowledge of certain crafts and oriental arts and a taste for luxury. Henceforth we had less difficulty in making them work and in putting them in the way of inventions. We built wonderfully beautiful churches, with daringly pierced arches, lancet-shaped windows, high towers, thousands of pointed130 spires131, which, rising in the sky towards Iahveh, bore at one and the same time the prayers of the humble132 and the threats of the proud, for it[200] was all as much our doing as the work of men's hands; and it was a strange sight to see men and demons working together at a cathedral, each one sawing, polishing, collecting stones, graving, on capital and on cornice, nettles133, thorns, thistles, wild parsley, and wild strawberry,—carving faces of virgins134 and saints and weird135 figures of serpents, fishes with asses7' heads, apes scratching their buttocks; each one, in fact, putting his own particular talent,—mocking, sublime136, grotesque137, modest, or audacious,—into the work and making of it all a harmonious cacophony138, a rapturous anthem139 of joy and sorrow, a Babel of victory. At our instigation the carvers, the gold-smiths, the enamellers, accomplished140 marvels141 and all the sumptuary arts flourished at once; there were silks at Lyons, tapestries142 at Arras, linen143 at Rheims, cloth at Rouen. The good merchants rode on their palfreys to the fairs, bearing pieces of velvet144 and brocade, embroideries145, orfrays, jewels, vessels146 of silver, and illuminated147 books. Strollers and players set up their trestles in the churches and in the public squares, and represented, according to their lights, simple chronicles of Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Women decked themselves in splendid raiment and lisped of love.
"In the spring when the sky was blue, nobles and peasants were possessed148 with the desire to make merry in the flower-strewn meadows. The fiddler tuned149 his instrument, and ladies, knights150 and demoi[201]selles, townsfolk, villagers and maidens151, holding hands, began the dance. But suddenly War, Pestilence152, and Famine entered the circle, and Death, tearing the violin from the fiddler's hands, led the dance. Fire devoured153 village and monastery. The men-at-arms hanged the peasants on the sign-posts at the cross-roads when they were unable to pay ransom, and bound pregnant women to tree-trunks, where at night the wolves came and devoured the fruit within the womb. The poor people lost their senses. Sometimes, peace being re-established, and good times come again, they were seized with mad, unreasoning terror, abandoned their homes, and rushed hither and thither154 in troops, half naked, tearing themselves with iron hooks, and singing. I do not accuse Iahveh and his son of all this evil. Many ill things occurred without him and even in spite of him. But where I recognise the instigation of the All Good (as they called him) was in the custom instituted by his pastors155, and established throughout Christendom, of burning, to the sound of bells and the singing of psalms156, both men and women who, taught by the demons, professed157, concerning this God, opinions of their own."
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rabble
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harp
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lighter
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tumult
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internecine
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irony
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monastery
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foe
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culled
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