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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: worship of things more monstrous than the wild gods atop Kadath.
From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage
which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came
to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings
were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned
a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery
of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.
On the distant shadowy side, beyond the noisome well, he thought
he discerned a small door of strangely wrought bronze; but for
some reason he felt an unaccountable dread of opening it or even
approaching it, and hastened back through the cavern to his unlovely
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
