2,000 Greater & Lesser Mysteries/2,000 Greater and Lesser Mysteries.iso/oto/mys01518.txt

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  1.  Ah! my Lord Adonai, that dalliest with the Magister in the Treasure-
House of Pearls, let me listen to the echo of your kisses.

  2.  Is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremulous rapture of
your love?  Am not I the flying spark of light whirled away by the great wind
of your perfection?

  3.  Yea, cried the Holy One, and from Thy spark will I the Lord kindle a
great light; I will burn through the great city in the old and desolate land;
I will cleanse it from its great impurity.

  4.  And thou, O prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them
not.

  5.  Now is the Pillar established in the Void; now is Asi fulfilled of Asar;
now is Hoor let down into the Animal Soul of Things like a fiery star that
falleth upon the darkness of the earth.

  6.  Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-
girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl'd glittering
stone, and they shall worship thee.

  7.  My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall
dance, and bright babes be born unto them.  Thou shalt inspire the proud ones
with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all
this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no
name.  For it is as the abyss of the Arcanum that is opened in the secret
Place of Silence.

  8.  Thou hast come hither, O my prophet, through grave paths.  Thou hast
eaten of the dung of the Abominable Ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before
the Goat and the Crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast
wandered as a painted harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and Chinese
colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with Kohl; thou
hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory
enamels.  Thou hast played the wanton in every gate and by-way of the great
city.  The men of the city have lusted after thee to abuse thee and to beat
thee.(mg)They have mouthed the golden spangles of fine dust(mg)wherewith thou
didst bedeck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with
their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things.

  9.  But I have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil.  In the
midnight I was brighter than the moon; in the daytime I exceeded utterly the
sun; in the byways of of thy being I inflamed, and dispelled the illusion.

10.  Therefore thou art wholly pure before Me; therefore thou art My virgin
unto eternity.

11.  Therefore I love thee with surpassing love; therefore they that despise
thee shall adore thee.

12.  Thou shalt be lovely and pitiful toward them; thou shalt heal them of the
unutterable evil.
13.  They shall change in their destruction, even as two dark stars that crash
together in the abyss, and blaze up in an infinite burning.

14.  All this while did Adonai pierce my being with his sword that hath four
blades; the blade of the thunderbolt, the blade of the Pylon, the blade of the
serpent, the blade of the Phallus.

15.  Also he taught me the holy unutterable word Ararita, so that I melted the
sixfold gold into a single invisible point, whereof naught may be spoken.

16.  For the Magistry of this Opus is a secret magistry; and the sign of the
master thereof is a certain ring of lapis-lazuli with the name of my master,
who am I, and the Eye in the Midst thereof.

17.  Also He spake and said: This is a secret sign, and thou shalt not
disclose it unto the profane, nor unto the neophyte, nor unto the zelator, nor
unto the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, nor unto the lesser adept, nor
unto the greater adept.

18.  But unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need
of him for the lesser operations of thine art.

19.  Accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest.  The Fire is
not defiled by the altars of the Ghebers, nor is the Moon contaminated by the
incense of them that adore the Queen of Night.

20.  Thou shalt dwell among the people as a precious diamond among cloudy
diamonds, and crystals, and pieces of glass.  Only the eye of the just
merchant shall behold thee, and plunging in his hand shall single thee out and
glorify thee before men.

21.  But thou shalt heed none of this.  Thou shalt be ever the heart, and I
the serpent will coil close about thee.  My coil shall never relax throughout
the aeons.  Neither change nor sorrow nor unsubstantiality shall have thee;
for thou art passed beyond all these.

22.  Even as the diamond shall glow red for the rose, and green for the rose-
leaf; so shalt thou abide apart from the Impressions.

23.  I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.

24.  Also thou art beyond the stabilities of Being and of Consciousness and of
Bliss; for I am thou, and the Pillar is 'stablished in the void.

25.  Also thou shalt discourse of these things unto the man that writeth them,
and he shall partake of them as a sacrament; for I who am thou am he, and the
Pillar is 'stablished in the void.

26.  From the Crown to the Abyss, so goeth it single and erect.  Also the
limitless sphere shall glow with the brilliance thereof.

27.  Thou shalt rejoice in the pools of adorable water; thou shalt bedeck thy
damsels with pearls of fecundity; thou shalt light flame like licking tongues
of liquor of the Gods between the pools.

28.  Also thou shalt convert the all-sweeping air into the winds of pale
water, thou shalt transmute the earth into a blue abyss of wine.
29.  Ruddy are the gleams of ruby and gold that sparkle therein; one drop
shall intoxicate the Lord of the Gods my servant.

30.  Also Adonai spake unto V.V.V.V.V. saying: O my little one, my tender one,
my little amorous one, my gazelle, my beautiful, my boy, let us fill up the
pillar of the Infinite with an infinite kiss!

31.  So that the stable was shaken and the unstable became still.