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James Norman Hall. Lost Island
Lost Island
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The Primal Source thrusts outward, upward. The First Source of Chaos and the Night dwelling below in Havaiki sends forth a first pulsation of motion. Unseen, invisible in the fathomless abyss of Night; Sleeping face downward in the Wide-Highways-of-Repose-of-Space; Propped on an elbow in the sunless Deep .. Up, on my knees! Now, with bended back! Heaving upward, I stand on Havaiki, Erect at last upon the Sacred Mound of My Temple, Ahu-Toru, Altar-of-Ascending-Fire, As I will the prodigious travail of the Spheres. O, Majesty! O, Divinity! Now dreams .. Now dreams the Almighty God. Now the Almighty-God-of-the-Cosmic-Night dwelling below in Havaiki, visions: The creation of the Spirit World, an abiding place for the spirits of the dead; The unfolding of the wide realms of the Earth, a sanctuary for the living; The under-propping of the Sky World here above, a Homeland for the Gods; That these multitudes reflect upon the Supreme Creator dwelling below in far Havaiki; That they lift on high their voices in acclaim of the Source-of-All. In Him alone is the power to perform these mighty deeds. O, Majesty! O, Divinity! These mighty deeds .. These mighty deeds are destined to be performed by the Creator of the Gods alone, the God Supreme! He is the Source who shall take life away, That the elementals shall know, That the dead shall remember, That the living shall not forget (Whilst the lesser Gods acclaim me), That I Myself am the author of these mighty deeds; That, knowing this, the Universe proclaim. Me, Myself, the Cause-of-All. I recline upon My Temple, Sacred-Altar-of-Ascending-Fire, While the fire leaps upward in streaming flame
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Now dreams the Almighty God. Now the Almighty-God-of-the-Cosmic-Night dwelling below in Havaiki, visions: .. The unfolding of the wide realms of the Earth, a sanctuary for the living; The under-propping of the Sky World here above, a Homeland for the Gods ..
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