Plates 16-17 by Ulver
[plates 16-17]
The giants who formed this world into its sensual
existence and now seem to live in it in chains,
are in truth the causes of its life & the sources of
all activity;
but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds
which have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb,
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Thus one portion of beings is the prolific,
the other the devouring:
to the devourer it seems as if the producer was in his
chains: but it is no so, he only takes portions of
existence and fancies that the whole.
But the prolific would cease to be prolific unless the
devourer, as a sea received the excess of his delights.
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