Pansies (Lawrence)/The Primal Passions—

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THE PRIMAL PASSIONS———
If you will go down into yourself, under your surface personalityyou will find you have a great desire to drink life direct ​from the source, not out of bottles and bottled personal vessels.
What the old people call immediate contact with God.That strange essential communication of lifenot bottled in human bottles.
What even the wild witchcraft of the past was seekingbefore it degenerated.
Life from the source, unadulteratedwith the human taint.
Contact with the sun of sunsthat shines somewhere in the atom, somewhere pivots the curved space,and cares not a straw for the put-up human figments.
Communion with the Godhead, they used to say in the past.But even that is human-tainted now,tainted with the ego and the personality.
To feel a fine, fine breeze blowing through the navel and the kneesand have a cool sense of truth, inhuman truth at last ​softly fluttering the senses, in the exquisite orgasm of coitionwith the godhead of energy that cannot tell lies.
The cool, cool truth of pure vitalitypouring into the veins from the direct contact with the source.Uncontaminated by even the beginnings of a lie.The soul's first passion is for sheer lifeentering in shocks of truth, unfouled by lies.
And the soul's next passion is to reflectand then turn round and embrace the extant body of lifewith the thrusting embrace of new justice, new justicebetween men and men, men and women, and earth and stars, and suns.The passion of justice being profound and subtleand changing in a flow as all passions change.
But the passion of justice is a primal embracebetween man and all his known universe.And the passion of truth is the embrace between manand his godin the sheer coition of the life-flow, stark and unlying.
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