GENESIS, OR, THE FIRST BOOK IN THE BIBLE
(“SUBJECT TO AUTHORITY”)
The sacred author of this work, Genesis, complied with the ideas acceptable to his era; it was almost necessary; for without this condescension he would not have been understood. There remains for us merely a few reflections on the physics of those remote times. As for theology of the book: we respect it, we believe it most firmly, we would not risk the faintest touch to its surface.
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” That is the way they translated it, yet there is scarcely any one so ignorant as not to know that the original reads “the gods created heaven and earth; which reading conforms to the Phoenician idea that God employed lesser divinities to untangle chaos. The Phoenicians had been long established when the Hebrews broke into some few provinces of their land. It was quite natural that these latter should have learned their language and borrowed their ideas of the cosmos.
Instigations by Ezra Pound, page 266
The Man
“If a man isn’t ready to take some risks for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.” – Ezra Pound
“Great poetry must be written; it doesn’t matter by whom.” – Ezra Pound
