Gloria in Excelsis Mihi

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Dieu and Gloria in Excelsis Mihi are poems written by Georges Bataille and published in his work L'expérience intérieure, 1943, translated into English as Inner Experience, Leslie Anne Boldt, 1988. Inner Experience along with Le Coupable, 1944 (Guilty) and Sur Nietzsche, 1945 (On Nietzsche) forms the crux of what Bataille would describe as his ‘Summa Atheologica.’ These writings as, well as those of both the College de Sociologie and Acéphale journal, provide a central framework from which this group draws inspiration.

Gloria in Excelsis Mihi is a collaboration between Geneviève Beaulieu (Menace Ruine, Preterite, M.O.R.) and L’ Acéphale.

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Gloria in Excelsis Mihi
Lyrics: Georges Bataille
Translation: Leslie Anne Boldt
Vocals: Geneviève Beaulieu

Au plus haut des cieux,
les anges, j'entends leur voix, me glorifient.

Je suis, sous le soleil, fourmi errante,
petite et noire, une pierre roulée
m'atteint, m'écrase,
morte, dans le ciel
le soleil fait rage,
il aveugle, je crie:
“il n'osera pas”
il ose.

Qui suis-je pas “moi” non non
mais le désert la nuit l'immensité
que je suis qu'est-ce
désert immensité nuit bête
vite néant sans retour
et sans rien avoir su
Mort réponse.

éponge ruisselante de songe solaire
enfonce-moi
que je ne sache plus
que ces larmes.

Étoile
je la suis ô mort
étoile de tonnere
folle cloche de ma mort.

Poèmes
pas courageux
mais douceur
oreille de délice
une voix de brebis hurle
au delà va au delà
torche éteinte.

………..

At the height of the heavens,
the angels, whose voice I hear, glorify me.

I am, beneath the sun, a wandering ant,
small and black, a rolling stone
reaches me,
crushes me,
dead,
in the sky
the sun blazes furiously,
it blinds,
I cry out:
“it will not dare”
it dares.

who am I, not “me” no no
but the desert the night the immensity
which I am What are
desert immensity night animal
soon irrevocable Nothingness
and without having known anything
Death
Answer

sponge streaming with solar dreams
enter me
so that I no longer know
but these tears.

Star which I am
O death
thunderous star
mad bell of my death.

A lamb's voice is howling
beyond go beyond
Torch extinguished

...............

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from L'Acéphale, released April 19, 2019

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