THE FALL IS THE FIRE
In temptation
Seeking glory
The price to pay
Is the fall of man
I. Prometheus
He tore fire from the axle of the sun
and screamed to the chained race below:
“Behold, you are gods now!”
“Quod licuit Iovi, non licuit bovi.”
What was permitted to Jupiter was not permitted to the ox.
The eagle came at dawn.
Every day it eats, every night the liver grows again,
eternal reminder:
“Audaces fortuna iuvat, sed Deus non ridet.”
Fortune favors the bold; God does not laugh.
II. Faust
In the black study, blood still warm on parchment,
he signs and whispers the fatal line:
“Verweile doch, du bist so schön!”
Stay a while, you are so beautiful!
The devil smiles, the soul is weighed.
“Quid prodest homini si universum lucretur, animae vero suae detrimentum patiatur?”
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul?
All the kingdoms glittered for one heartbeat,
then the abyss opened like a mouth.
III. The First Fall
Before all falls, the Morning Star:
“Non serviam.”
I will not serve.
He fell like lightning,
and half the heavens rained with him.
“Eritis sicut dii”, the serpent had promised.
You shall be as gods.
We2
We bit.
We still bite.
IV. Icarus
Wax melting, feathers scattering like snow,
“Nimium soli appropinquavit.”
He flew too close to the sun.
The sea keeps his name.
V. The Law Written in Fire
“Omnis qui se exaltat humiliabitur.”
Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled.
Yet listen:
in the exact center of the fall
a spark refuses to die.
Through chains, through pacts, through shattered wings,
the human animal keeps reaching upward.
“Audax omnia perpeti
gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.”
The human race, daring to endure all things,
rushes headlong into every forbidden horror.
And still we rise.
Still we burn.
Still we reach,
because the fall itself is the fire
that teaches us how to fly again.
In temptation
Seeking glory
The price to pay
Is the fall of man
And the glory
is the fall
andPhoenix
“Finis coronat opus.”
The end crowns the work.
We fall.
We burn.
We rise.
Forever.
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