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And knowledge death; oh wherefore, then,
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Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
(Two souls dwell, alas3! in my breast.)
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Was stehst du so, und blickst erstaunt hinaus?
(Why standest thou so, and lookest out astonished?)
“Faust.”
It will be remembered that we left Master Paolo by the bedside of Glyndon; and as, waking from that profound slumber4, the recollections of the past night came horribly back to his mind, the Englishman uttered a cry, and covered his face with his hands.
“Good morrow, Excellency!” said Paolo, gayly. “Corpo di Bacco, you have slept soundly!”
The sound of this man’s voice, so lusty, ringing, and healthful, served to scatter6 before it the phantasma that yet haunted Glyndon’s memory.
He rose erect7 in his bed. “And where did you find me? Why are you here?”
“Where did I find you!” repeated Paolo, in surprise,—“in your bed, to be sure. Why am I here!— because the Padrone bade me await your waking, and attend your commands.”
“The Padrone, Mejnour!— is he arrived?”
“Arrived and departed, signor. He has left this letter for you.”
“Give it me, and wait without till I am dressed.”
“At your service. I have bespoke9 an excellent breakfast: you must be hungry. I am a very tolerable cook; a monk’s son ought to be! You will be startled at my genius in the dressing11 of fish. My singing, I trust, will not disturb you. I always sing while I prepare a salad; it harmonises the ingredients.” And slinging12 his carbine over his shoulder, Paolo sauntered from the room, and closed the door.
Glyndon was already deep in the contents of the following letter:—
“When I first received thee as my pupil, I promised Zanoni, if convinced by thy first trials that thou couldst but swell13, not the number of our order, but the list of the victims who have aspired14 to it in vain, I would not rear thee to thine own wretchedness and doom,— I would dismiss thee back to the world. I fulfil my promise. Thine ordeal17 has been the easiest that neophyte18 ever knew. I asked for nothing but abstinence from the sensual, and a brief experiment of thy patience and thy faith. Go back to thine own world; thou hast no nature to aspire15 to ours!
“It was I who prepared Paolo to receive thee at the revel19. It was I who instigated20 the old beggar to ask thee for alms. It was I who left open the book that thou couldst not read without violating my command. Well, thou hast seen what awaits thee at the threshold of knowledge. Thou hast confronted the first foe21 that menaces him whom the senses yet grasp and inthrall. Dost thou wonder that I close upon thee the gates forever? Dost thou not comprehend, at last, that it needs a soul tempered and purified and raised, not by external spells, but by its own sublimity22 and valour, to pass the threshold and disdain23 the foe? Wretch16! all my silence avails nothing for the rash, for the sensual,— for him who desires our secrets but to pollute them to gross enjoyments24 and selfish vice8. How have the imposters and sorcerers of the earlier times perished by their very attempt to penetrate26 the mysteries that should purify, and not deprave! They have boasted of the Philosopher’s Stone, and died in rags; of the immortal27 elixir28, and sunk to their grave, grey before their time. Legends tell you that the fiend rent them into fragments. Yes; the fiend of their own unholy desires and criminal designs! What they coveted29, thou covetest; and if thou hadst the wings of a seraph31 thou couldst soar not from the slough32 of thy mortality. Thy desire for knowledge, but petulant33 presumption34; thy thirst for happiness, but the diseased longing35 for the unclean and muddied waters of corporeal36 pleasure; thy very love, which usually elevates even the mean, a passion that calculates treason amidst the first glow of lust5. THOU one of us; thou a brother of the August Order; thou an Aspirant37 to the Stars that shine in the Shemaia of the Chaldean lore38! The eagle can raise but the eaglet to the sun. I abandon thee to thy twilight39!
“But, alas for thee, disobedient and profane40! thou hast inhaled41 the elixir; thou hast attracted to thy presence a ghastly and remorseless foe. Thou thyself must exorcise the phantom42 thou hast raised. Thou must return to the world; but not without punishment and strong effort canst thou regain43 the calm and the joy of the life thou hast left behind. This, for thy comfort, will I tell thee: he who has drawn44 into his frame even so little of the volatile45 and vital energy of the aerial juices as thyself, has awakened46 faculties47 that cannot sleep,— faculties that may yet, with patient humility48, with sound faith, and the courage that is not of the body like thine, but of the resolute49 and virtuous50 mind, attain51, if not to the knowledge that reigns52 above, to high achievement in the career of men. Thou wilt53 find the restless influence in all that thou wouldst undertake. Thy heart, amidst vulgar joys will aspire to something holier; thy ambition, amidst coarse excitement, to something beyond thy reach. But deem not that this of itself will suffice for glory. Equally may the craving54 lead thee to shame and guilt55. It is but an imperfect and new-born energy which will not suffer thee to repose56. As thou directest it, must thou believe it to be the emanation of thine evil genius or thy good.
“But woe57 to thee! insect meshed58 in the web in which thou hast entangled59 limbs and wings! Thou hast not only inhaled the elixir, thou hast conjured60 the spectre; of all the tribes of the space, no foe is so malignant61 to man,— and thou hast lifted the veil from thy gaze. I cannot restore to thee the happy dimness of thy vision. Know, at least, that all of us — the highest and the wisest — who have, in sober truth, passed beyond the threshold, have had, as our first fearful task, to master and subdue62 its grisly and appalling63 guardian64. Know that thou CANST deliver thyself from those livid eyes,— know that, while they haunt, they cannot harm, if thou resistest the thoughts to which they tempt25, and the horror they engender65. DREAD66 THEM MOST WHEN THOU BEHOLDEST THEM NOT. And thus, son of the worm, we part! All that I can tell thee to encourage, yet to warn and to guide, I have told thee in these lines. Not from me, from thyself has come the gloomy trial from which I yet trust thou wilt emerge into peace. Type of the knowledge that I serve, I withhold67 no lesson from the pure aspirant; I am a dark enigma68 to the general seeker. As man’s only indestructible possession is his memory, so it is not in mine art to crumble69 into matter the immaterial thoughts that have sprung up within thy breast. The tyro70 might shatter this castle to the dust, and topple down the mountain to the plain. The master has no power to say, ‘Exist no more,’ to one THOUGHT that his knowledge has inspired. Thou mayst change the thoughts into new forms; thou mayst rarefy and sublimate71 it into a finer spirit,— but thou canst not annihilate72 that which has no home but in the memory, no substance but the idea. EVERY THOUGHT IS A SOUL! Vainly, therefore, would I or thou undo73 the past, or restore to thee the gay blindness of thy youth. Thou must endure the influence of the elixir thou hast inhaled; thou must wrestle74 with the spectre thou hast invoked75!”
The letter fell from Glyndon’s hand. A sort of stupor76 succeeded to the various emotions which had chased each other in the perusal,— a stupor resembling that which follows the sudden destruction of any ardent77 and long-nursed hope in the human heart, whether it be of love, of avarice78, of ambition. The loftier world for which he had so thirsted, sacrificed, and toiled79, was closed upon him “forever,” and by his own faults of rashness and presumption. But Glyndon’s was not of that nature which submits long to condemn80 itself. His indignation began to kindle81 against Mejnour, who owned he had tempted82, and who now abandoned him,— abandoned him to the presence of a spectre. The mystic’s reproaches stung rather than humbled83 him. What crime had he committed to deserve language so harsh and disdainful? Was it so deep a debasement to feel pleasure in the smile and the eyes of Fillide? Had not Zanoni himself confessed love for Viola; had he not fled with her as his companion? Glyndon never paused to consider if there are no distinctions between one kind of love and another. Where, too, was the great offence of yielding to a temptation which only existed for the brave? Had not the mystic volume which Mejnour had purposely left open, bid him but “Beware of fear”? Was not, then, every wilful84 provocative85 held out to the strongest influences of the human mind, in the prohibition86 to enter the chamber87, in the possession of the key which excited his curiosity, in the volume which seemed to dictate88 the mode by which the curiosity was to be gratified? As rapidly these thoughts passed over him, he began to consider the whole conduct of Mejnour either as a perfidious89 design to entrap90 him to his own misery91, or as the trick of an imposter, who knew that he could not realise the great professions he had made. On glancing again over the more mysterious threats and warnings in Mejnour’s letter, they seemed to assume the language of mere92 parable93 and allegory,— the jargon94 of the Platonists and Pythagoreans. By little and little, he began to consider that the very spectra95 he had seen — even that one phantom so horrid96 in its aspect — were but the delusions97 which Mejnour’s science had enable him to raise. The healthful sunlight, filling up every cranny in his chamber, seemed to laugh away the terrors of the past night. His pride and his resentment98 nerved his habitual99 courage; and when, having hastily dressed himself, he rejoined Paolo, it was with a flushed cheek and a haughty100 step.
“So, Paolo,” said he, “the Padrone, as you call him, told you to expect and welcome me at your village feast?”
“He did so by a message from a wretched old cripple. This surprised me at the time, for I thought he was far distant; but these great philosophers make a joke of two or three hundred leagues.”
“Why did you not tell me you had heard from Mejnour?”
“Because the old cripple forbade me.”
“Did you not see the man afterwards during the dance?”
“No, Excellency.”
“Humph!”
“Allow me to serve you,” said Paolo, piling Glyndon’s plate, and then filling his glass. “I wish, signor, now the Padrone is gone,— not,” added Paolo, as he cast rather a frightened and suspicious glance round the room, “that I mean to say anything disrespectful of him,— I wish, I say, now that he is gone, that you would take pity on yourself, and ask your own heart what your youth was meant for? Not to bury yourself alive in these old ruins, and endanger body and soul by studies which I am sure no saint could approve of.”
“Are the saints so partial, then, to your own occupations, Master Paolo?”
“Why,” answered the bandit, a little confused, “a gentleman with plenty of pistoles in his purse need not, of necessity, make it his profession to take away the pistoles of other people! It is a different thing for us poor rogues101. After all, too, I always devote a tithe102 of my gains to the Virgin103; and I share the rest charitably with the poor. But eat, drink, enjoy yourself; be absolved104 by your confessor for any little peccadilloes105 and don’t run too long scores at a time,— that’s my advice. Your health, Excellency! Pshaw, signor, fasting, except on the days prescribed to a good Catholic, only engenders106 phantoms107.”
“Phantoms!”
“Yes; the devil always tempts108 the empty stomach. To covet30, to hate, to thieve, to rob, and to murder,— these are the natural desires of a man who is famishing. With a full belly109, signor, we are at peace with all the world. That’s right; you like the partridge! Cospetto! when I myself have passed two or three days in the mountains, with nothing from sunset to sunrise but a black crust and an onion, I grow as fierce as a wolf. That’s not the worst, too. In these times I see little imps110 dancing before me. Oh, yes; fasting is as full of spectres as a field of battle.”
Glyndon thought there was some sound philosophy in the reasoning of his companion; and certainly the more he ate and drank, the more the recollection of the past night and of Mejnour’s desertion faded from his mind. The casement111 was open, the breeze blew, the sun shone,— all Nature was merry; and merry as Nature herself grew Maestro Paolo. He talked of adventures, of travel, of women, with a hearty112 gusto that had its infection. But Glyndon listened yet more complacently113 when Paolo turned with an arch smile to praises of the eye, the teeth, the ankles, and the shape of the handsome Fillide.
This man, indeed, seemed the very personation of animal sensual life. He would have been to Faust a more dangerous tempter than Mephistopheles. There was no sneer114 on HIS lip at the pleasures which animated115 his voice. To one awaking to a sense of the vanities in knowledge, this reckless ignorant joyousness116 of temper was a worse corrupter117 than all the icy mockeries of a learned Fiend. But when Paolo took his leave, with a promise to return the next day, the mind of the Englishman again settled back to a graver and more thoughtful mood. The elixir seemed, in truth, to have left the refining effects Mejnour had ascribed to it. As Glyndon paced to and fro the solitary118 corridor, or, pausing, gazed upon the extended and glorious scenery that stretched below, high thoughts of enterprise and ambition — bright visions of glory — passed in rapid succession through his soul.
“Mejnour denies me his science. Well,” said the painter, proudly, “he has not robbed me of my art.”
What! Clarence Glyndon, dost thou return to that from which thy career commenced? Was Zanoni right after all?
He found himself in the chamber of the mystic; not a vessel119,— not an herb! the solemn volume is vanished,— the elixir shall sparkle for him no more! But still in the room itself seems to linger the atmosphere of a charm. Faster and fiercer it burns within thee, the desire to achieve, to create! Thou longest for a life beyond the sensual!— but the life that is permitted to all genius,— that which breathes through the immortal work, and endures in the imperishable name.
Where are the implements120 for thine art? Tush!— when did the true workman ever fail to find his tools? Thou art again in thine own chamber,— the white wall thy canvas, a fragment of charcoal121 for thy pencil. They suffice, at least, to give outline to the conception that may otherwise vanish with the morrow.
The idea that thus excited the imagination of the artist was unquestionably noble and august. It was derived122 from that Egyptian ceremonial which Diodorus has recorded,— the Judgment123 of the Dead by the Living (Diod., lib. i.): when the corpse124, duly embalmed125, is placed by the margin126 of the Acherusian Lake; and before it may be consigned127 to the bark which is to bear it across the waters to its final resting-place, it is permitted to the appointed judges to hear all accusations128 of the past life of the deceased, and, if proved, to deprive the corpse of the rites129 of sepulture.
Unconsciously to himself, it was Mejnour’s description of this custom, which he had illustrated130 by several anecdotes131 not to be found in books, that now suggested the design to the artist, and gave it reality and force. He supposed a powerful and guilty king whom in life scarce a whisper had dared to arraign132, but against whom, now the breath was gone, came the slave from his fetters133, the mutilated victim from his dungeon134, livid and squalid as if dead themselves, invoking135 with parched136 lips the justice that outlives the grave.
Strange fervour this, O artist! breaking suddenly forth137 from the mists and darkness which the occult science had spread so long over thy fancies,— strange that the reaction of the night’s terror and the day’s disappointment should be back to thine holy art! Oh, how freely goes the bold hand over the large outline! How, despite those rude materials, speaks forth no more the pupil, but the master! Fresh yet from the glorious elixir, how thou givest to thy creatures the finer life denied to thyself!— some power not thine own writes the grand symbols on the wall. Behind rises the mighty138 sepulchre, on the building of which repose to the dead the lives of thousands had been consumed. There sit in a semicircle the solemn judges. Black and sluggish139 flows the lake. There lies the mummied and royal dead. Dost thou quail140 at the frown on his lifelike brow? Ha!— bravely done, O artist!— up rise the haggard forms!— pale speak the ghastly faces! Shall not Humanity after death avenge141 itself on Power? Thy conception, Clarence Glyndon, is a sublime142 truth; thy design promises renown143 to genius. Better this magic than the charms of the volume and the vessel. Hour after hour has gone; thou hast lighted the lamp; night sees thee yet at thy labour. Merciful Heaven! what chills the atmosphere; why does the lamp grow wan144; why does thy hair bristle145? There!— there!— there! at the casement! It gazes on thee, the dark, mantled146, loathsome147 thing! There, with their devilish mockery and hateful craft, glare on thee those horrid eyes!
He stood and gazed,— it was no delusion. It spoke10 not, moved not, till, unable to bear longer that steady and burning look, he covered his face with his hands. With a start, with a thrill, he removed them; he felt the nearer presence of the nameless. There it cowered148 on the floor beside his design; and lo! the figures seemed to start from the wall! Those pale accusing figures, the shapes he himself had raised, frowned at him, and gibbered. With a violent effort that convulsed his whole being, and bathed his body in the sweat of agony, the young man mastered his horror. He strode towards the phantom; he endured its eyes; he accosted149 it with a steady voice; he demanded its purpose and defied its power.
And then, as a wind from a charnel, was heard its voice. What it said, what revealed, it is forbidden the lips to repeat, the hand to record. Nothing save the subtle life that yet animated the frame to which the inhalations of the elixir had given vigour150 and energy beyond the strength of the strongest, could have survived that awful hour. Better to wake in the catacombs and see the buried rise from their cerements, and hear the ghouls, in their horrid orgies, amongst the festering ghastliness of corruption151, than to front those features when the veil was lifted, and listen to that whispered voice!
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The next day Glyndon fled from the ruined castle. With what hopes of starry152 light had he crossed the threshold; with what memories to shudder153 evermore at the darkness did he look back at the frown of its time-worn towers!
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entrap
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misery
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resentment
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tempts
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belly
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casement
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| adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的 | |
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joyousness
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corrupter
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