Translations:Franz Liszt/15/en
On the lower levels, the forces of Scorpio are degeneration. On the higher levels they are regeneration: degeneration, the scorpion; regeneration, the eagle.[1] His personal life alternated between the heights where the eagle lifts undazzled eyes to the heart of the sun and the low ground where crawls the scorpion to distill its poison. Liszt, unobserved, would often slip away from the cheering throng to spend the remaining hours of the night in church upon his knees. At other times he would take part in a sensual carousel so freely indulged in by those about him.
- ↑ The scorpion is the lower symbol of Scorpio; the eagle the higher.