Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.

Not of the seed of Adam are we,
Nor is Abraham our father, 
But of the seed of the proud angel
Driven forth from heaven.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

I

Race of Abel! eat, sleep, drink.
God smiles on those that he prefers.
Race of Cain! in swamps that stink,
Crawl, and die the death of curs.
Race of Abel! your crops sprout,
And your flocks are safe and sound.
Race of Cain! your guts howl out
In hunger, like an ancient hound.
Race of Abel! warm your guts
At the patriarchal fire.
Race of Cain! in caves and huts
Shiver like jackals in the mire.
Race of Abel! Pullulate :
Your gold too procreates its kind.
Race of Cain! Hearts hot with hate,
Leave all such appetites behind.
Race of Abel! grow and graze,
Like woodlice that on timbers prey.
Race of Cain! along rough ways
Lead forth your family at bay.

II

Ah! Race of Abel! your fat carrion
Will well manure the soil it presses.
Race of Cain! One task to carry on
Remains for you, a task that presses.
Race of Abel! Shame is nigh.
The coulter’s beaten by the sword.
Race of Cain, climb up the sky,
And to the earth hurl down the Lord.

What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

LUCIFER: They say what they must sing and say on pain
Of being that which I am and thou art–
Of spirits and of men.

CAIN: And what is that?

LUCIFER: Souls who dare use their immortality,
Souls who dare look the omnipotent tyrant in
His everlasting face and tell him that
His evil is not good!

I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud.

In human life, if you feel that you have made a mistake, you don’t try to undo the past or the present, but you just accept where you are and work from there.