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- u80ici1.11h49. Yea, also verily Thou art the cool still water of the wizard
- fount. I have bathed in Thee, and lost me in Thy stillness.
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- 50. That which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a
- maiden, as a little child for perfection.
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- 51. O Thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the
- stars!
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- 52. O Thou Son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be Thy name, and the
- Name of Thy Name, throughout the ages!
-
- 53. Behold! I am a butterfly at the Source of Creation; let me die before
- the hour, falling dead into thine infinite stream!
-
- 54. Also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the Abode; bear
- me away upon the Bosom of Nuit!
-
- 55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that
- becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord
- Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire!
-
- 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me. I
- pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life.
-
- 57. How shall I answer the foolish man? In no way shall he come to the
- Identity of Thee!
-
- 58. But I am the Fool that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the
- Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of
- Power and of Worship.
-
- 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and the gallows of infamy
- dance with the fruit of the just.
-
- 60. I have descended, O my darling, into the black shining waters, and I have
- plucked Thee forth as a black pearl of infinite preciousness.
-
- 61. I have gone down, O my God, into the abyss of the all, and I have found
- Thee in the midst under the guise of No Thing.
-
- 62. But as Thou art the Last, Thou art also the Next, and as the Next do I
- reveal Thee to the multitude.
-
- 63. They that ever desired Thee shall obtain Thee, even at the End of their
- Desire.
-
- 64. Glorious, glorious, glorious art Thou, O my lover supernal, O Self of
- myself.
-
- 65. For I have found Thee alike in the Me and the Thee; there is no
- difference, O my beautiful, my desirable One! In the One and the Many have I
- found Thee; yea, I have found Thee.
-