Saturday, September 7, 2019

Non cercarti fuori -                                                                  Don't Search for Yourself on the Outside

In motu quiescas
Ne te quaesiveris extra
Iram non perficere
Aequo animo ferre deberes.

Non cercarti fuori.

Mundus erat mundus,
mundus cum munda creares.
Hora est nos de somno surgere,
intra in cubiculum mentis tuae.

Non cercarti fuori.

Nova consilii species,
te licet invitum.
Intra in cubiculum mentis tuae.
Quam superat serpente.

Non cercarti fuori.

Non fuit aeger homo
Postquam male credula
Pomo fregerat Eva virum
Quam superarat serpente.
Mundus erat mundus,
mundus cum munda creares.
Hora est nos de sommo surgere,
intra in cubiculum mentis tuae.

Non cercarti fuori © 1999 Juri Camisasca

"Non cercarti fuori" is a mix of quotations from Satire 1 of Persius, Seneca the Younger's Epistle 91, Saint Alfanus I, Peter of Eboli's Liber ad honorem Augusti, Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Proslogion, and the Rule of Benedict.

In motion remain still.
Don’t seek outside yourself.
Don’t carry out wrath.
You should bear up with equanimity.

Don’t search for yourself on the outside.

The world was the world,
the world, while you create the mundane.
It’s time that we rise from sleep,
within, the inner chamber of your mind.

Don’t search for yourself on the outside.

Make new plans, vision,
you may be reluctant.
Within, in the inner chamber of your mind.
How the serpent vanquishes.

Don’t search for yourself on the outside.

By no means was man dejected
after, faithless,
Eve had poisoned the fruit tree.
How the serpent had vanquished.
The world was the world,
the world while you create the mundane.
It’s time that we rise from sleep,
within, the inner chamber of your mind.

English translation © 2021 Dennis Criteser


Arcano enigma, released in 1999, was produced by Franco Battiato and has electro-pop sonorities that will be familiar to fans of '90s-era Battiato. The album has several songs with lyrics taken directly from St. Augustine's Confessions.