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Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Giant's War 2
Identifier
002594
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Ovid gained from friendship and companionship which is under the generic heading of reducing threats
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A description of the experience
Ovid Metamorphoses - The Giant’s war
I was not more concern'd in that debate
Of empire, when our universal state
Was put to hazard, and the giant race
Our captive skies were ready to imbrace:
For tho' the foe was fierce, the seeds of all
Rebellion, sprung from one original;
Now, wheresoever ambient waters glide,
All are corrupt, and all must be destroy'd.
Let me this holy protestation make,
By Hell, and Hell's inviolable lake,
I try'd whatever in the godhead lay:
But gangren'd members must be lopt away,
Before the nobler parts are tainted to decay.
There dwells below, a race of demi-gods,
Of nymphs in waters, and of fawns in woods:
Who, tho' not worthy yet, in Heaven to live,
Let 'em, at least, enjoy that Earth we give.
Can these be thought securely lodg'd below,
When I my self, who no superior know,
I, who have Heav'n and Earth at my command,
Have been attempted by Lycaon's hand?
The source of the experience
OvidConcepts, symbols and science items
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Unrequited loveSuppressions
Making loveReducing threats
Sex magick
Sexual stimulation