{"id":1021,"date":"2005-01-02T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:21:16","slug":"1021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/1021\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn to Lucifer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/497px-Lucifer_Liege_Luc_Viatour_new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/497px-Lucifer_Liege_Luc_Viatour_new.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/497px-Lucifer_Liege_Luc_Viatour_new.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/497px-Lucifer_Liege_Luc_Viatour_new-146x300.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_g\u00e9nie_du_mal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Le g\u00e9nie du mal<\/a>\u00a0by Guillaume Geefs,\u00a0St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?<br>Without its climax, death, what savour hath<br>Life? an impeccable machine, exact<br>He paces an inane and pointless path<br>To glut brute appetites, his sole content<br>How tedious were he fit to comprehend<br>Himself! More, this our noble element<br>Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned<br>Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His body a blood-ruby radiant<br>With noble passion, sun-souled Lucifer<br>Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant<br>On Eden&#8217;s imbecile perimeter.<br>He blessed nonentity with every curse<br>And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,<br>Breath life into the sterile universe,<br>With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence<br>The Key of Joy is disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aleister_Crowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edward Alexander Crowley<\/a><\/strong>, (born October 12, 1875, \u2014 died December 1, 1947)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/archives\/category\/poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?Without its climax, death, what savour hathLife? an impeccable machine, exactHe paces an inane and pointless pathTo glut brute appetites, his sole contentHow tedious were he fit to comprehendHimself! More, this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/1021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,56],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-updated-2021","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}