2,000 Greater & Lesser Mysteries/2,000 Greater and Lesser Mysteries.iso/oto/mys01519.txt

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u80ici1.11h32.  They that beheld it cried with a formidable affright: The end
of things is come upon us.

33.  And it was even so.

34.  Also I was in the spirit vision and beheld a parricidal pomp of atheists,
coupled by two and by two in the supernal ecstasy of the stars.  They did
laugh and rejoice exceedingly, being clad in purple robes and drunken with
purple wine, and their whole soul was one purple flower-flame of holiness.

35.  They beheld not God; they beheld not the Image of God; therefore were
they arisen to the Palace of the Splendour Ineffable.  A sharp sword smote out
before them, and the worm Hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet.

36.  Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear
Invisible fled away and was no more.

37.  O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blessèd are ye unto the
ages.

38.  They shaped Doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of Faith for their
garlands.

39.  They shaped Ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat
upon the stagnant water.

40.  Then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at
ease.

41.  And again I was caught up into the presence of my Lord Adonai, and the
knowledge and Conversation of the Holy One, and Angel that Guardeth me.

42.  O Holy Exalted One, O Self beyond self.  O Self-Luminous Image of the
Unimaginable Naught, O my darling, my beautiful, come Thou forth and follow
me.

43.  Adonai, divine Adonai, let Adonai initiate refulgent dalliance!  Thus I
concealed the name of Her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose
body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the
beasts.

44.  I have sucked out the blood with my lips; I have drained Her beauty of
its sustenance; I have abased Her before me, I have mastered Her, I have
possessed Her, and Her life is within me.  In Her blood I inscribe the secret
riddles of the Sphinx of the Gods, that none shall understand,  save only the
pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and the gynander
that have passed beyond the bars of the prison that the old Slime of Khem set
up in the Gates of Amennti.

45.  O my adorable, my delicious one, all night will I pour out the libation
on Thine altars; all night will I burn the sacrifice of blood; all night will
I swing the thurible of my delight before Thee, and the fervour of the orisons
shall intoxicate Thy nostrils.

46.  O Thou who camest from the land of the Elephant, girt about with the
tiger's pell, and garlanded with the lotus of the spirit, do Thou inebriate my
life with Thy madness, that She leap at my passing.
47.  Bid Thy maidens who follow Thee bestrew us a bed of flowers immortal,
that we may take our pleasure thereupon.  Bid Thy satyrs heap thorns among the
flowers, that we may take our pain thereupon.  Let the pleasure and pain be
mingled in one supreme offering unto the Lord Adonai!

48.  Also I heard the voice of Adonai the Lord the desirable one concerning
that which is beyond.

49.  Let not the dwellers in Thebai and the temples thereof prate ever of the
Pillars of Hercules and the Ocean of the West.  Is not the Nile a beautiful
water?

50.  Let not the priest of Isis uncover the nakedness of Nuit, for every step
is a death and a birth.  The priest of Isis lifted the veil of Isis, and was
slain by the kisses of her mouth.  Then was he the priest of Nuit, and drank
of the milk of the stars.

51.  Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers.  The
foundations of the pyramid were hewn in the living rock ere sunset; did the
king weep at dawn that the crown of the pyramid was yet unquarried in the
distant land?

52.  There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and
prayed him for poison.  And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal
Uraeus serpent, answered him and said:

53.  I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I
saw not any creature upon Seb that was equal to me.  The venom of my fang is
the inheritance of my father, and of my father's father; and how shall I give
it unto thee?  Live thou and thy children as I and my fathers have lived, even
unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the
Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld.

54.  Then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the
flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them.  Yet in a
little while a serpent struck him that he died.

55.  But an Ibis that meditated upon the bank of Nile the beautiful god
listened and heard.  And he laid aside his Ibis ways, and became as a serpent,
saying Peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my
children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the Exalted
One.

56.  And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an Uraeus serpent, and
the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and
for ever.

57.  O thou Serpent Apep, my Lord Adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this
travelling through eternity, and in Thy sight the landmarks are of fair white
marble untouched by the tool of the graver.  Therefore thou art mine, even now
and for ever and for everlasting. Amen.

58.  Moreover, I heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and
the Serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book.

         As fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of
Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of theceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and the
deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai.