The realm of sensuality | Søren Kierkegaard
In the Middle Ages they knew how to tell a lot about a mountain that cannot be found on any map and its name: the mountain of Venus.
There, in the mountain - the abode of sensuality and there she revels in wild pleasures. There is the domain of her rule, because sensuality is an empire. She is a kingdom. In this empire the language is not found. There is no return to the careful and sober mind of the thought. There is no tedious purchase of the ideas.
There, on the mountain, only the elementary voice of desire, the amusement of greed, the wild roar of drunkenness is heard. There they are constantly reveling in perpetual dizzying mayhem.
The first son of this empire is Don Juan. This does not yet say that this is the kingdom of sin. Only after reflection and thought is it seen as the kingdom of sin.
Then Don Juan died. Then the music goes silent too.
(From "Cern Kierkegaard - A Selection of Writings" edited by Dr. Yosef Shechter and Ilan Baruch, Dvir Publishing, 1973)