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my oc, Emil, was officially accepted into the roleplay group, Lapis Liberi! i’m really honored to be a part of this group and explore emil’s story further. they’re my first-ever vampire oc too!!
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Day 12
Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli
III
1. I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.
2. But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!
3. God! how I ran out in my rage and scattered the chorus!
4. But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.
5. Therefore I went wildly with the girls into Abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced.
6. Exceedingly; yea, in good sooth!
7. I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.
8. Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.
9. Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster — O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the Great Goddess!
10. Therein is a pearl.
11. O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.
12. Then I the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl.
13. So bright we could not look! But behold! a blood-red rose upon a rood of glowing gold!
14. So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!
15. I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.
16. I will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you.
17. Thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land.
18. This shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man’s life spilt for thy love upon My Altars.
19. Amen.
20. Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation.
21. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone!
22. It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it.
23. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
24. Come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine.
25. It grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven.
26. Thou art behind me: I scream with a mad joy.
27. Then said Ithuriel the strong; let Us also worship this invisible marvel!
28. So did they, and the archangels swept over the heaven.
29. Strange and mystic, like a yellow priest invoking mighty flights of great grey birds from the North, so do I stand and invoke Thee!
30. Let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour!
31. Take away form and its following!
32. I am still.
33. Thou art like an osprey among the rice, I am the great red pelican in the sunset waters.
34. I am like a black eunuch; and Thou art the scimitar. I smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt.
35. Yea! I smite — and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the King’s Bedchamber.
36. I smite! The whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak.
37. I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!
38. Again the inhuman voice!
39. I rear my Titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and I smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea.
40. There is a strange pale God, a god of pain and deadly wickedness.
41. My own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire.
42. That pallid God with face averted, that God of subtlety and laughter, that young Doric God, him will I serve.
43. For the end thereof is torment unspeakable.
44. Better the loneliness of the great grey sea!
45. But ill befall the folk of the grey land, my God!
46. Let me smother them with my roses!
47. Oh Thou delicious God, smile sinister!
48. I pluck Thee, O my God, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. How Thou dost melt in my mouth, Thou consecrated sugar of the Stars!
49. The world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin.
50. All the wine of it is on these lips.
51. Thou hast begotten me upon a marble Statue, O my God!
52. The body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. How shall I come forth into the light?
53. Thou art He, O God! O my darling! my child! my plaything! Thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake.
54. I feel the essence of softness.
55. I am hard and strong and male; but come Thou! I shall be soft and weak and feminine.
56. Thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of Thy love. My blood shall stain Thy fiery feet with litanies of Love in Anguish.
57. There shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vineyards.
58. The bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song.
59. I shall gain the Pain of the Goat for my prize; and the God that sitteth upon the shoulders of Time shall drowse.
60. Then shall all this which is written be accomplished: yea, it shall be accomplished
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
March 19th marks the first day of the Thelemic High Holy Season Pathworking. We start with the reading of Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum sub figurâ VII - PROLOGUE OF THE UNBORN.
Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum sub figurâ VII
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple.
Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum sub figurâ VII
Sigillum Sanctum Fraternitatis A∴A∴
A∴A∴
Publication in Class A.
PROLOGUE OF THE UNBORN
1. Into my loneliness comes —
2. The sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills.
3. Even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness.
4. And I behold Pan.
5. The snows are eternal above, above —
6. And their perfume smokes upward into the nostrils of the stars.
7. But what have I to do with these?
8. To me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of Pan.
9. On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;
10. The perfume of Pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech.
11. The embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure.
12. The sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of Him,
13. Myself flung down the precipice of being
14. Even to the abyss, annihilation.
15. An end to loneliness, as to all.
16. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
May this high holy season bring love, light and liberty to all.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Holy Day Celebration 3/31/22 e.v.
March 31, 2022 e.v., Dies Jovis, Anno Vviii e.l.
The Day of Kaph, the Day of Fortune
Hebrew Letter: Kaph
Numerical Value as Letter: 20
Numerical Value as Word: 100/820 (Kaph+Peh)
Meaning: Bent or Hollow Hand, Palm, Fist.
Thoth Card: Fortune (Atu X)
Alternate Title: The Wheel of Fortune, The Lord of the Forces of Life.
Image:
Correspondences:
Tree of Life Path Association: Key 21 - Netzach to Chesed (from Sephira 7-4)
Astrological Sign: Jupiter
Element: -
Egyptian Godforms: Amoun-Ra
Geomantic Figure: Square and Rhombus
Gemstones: Sapphire, Amethyst, Lapis Lazuli
Perfumes: Ammoniacum, Golden Copal, Mace, Balm of Gilead, Saffron, Ash, all generous and expansive odors
Plants: Hyssop, Oak, Poplar, Fig, Arnica, Cedar
Animals: Hart, Eagle, Dolphin, Praying Mantis.
Colors:
King Scale – Violet
Queen Scale – Blue
Prince Scale – Rich Purple
Princess Scale – Bright blue rayed yellow
The Secret Instruction of the Master:
Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee! The axle moveth not: attain thou that!
Mnemonic:
Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle's immobile.
Recommended Text for Meditation: Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, Cap. 3
Liber Liberi vel Lapdis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum Sub Figura VII
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple. A.˙.A.˙. Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A.˙. A.˙.
III
1. I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.
2. But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!
3. God! how I ran out in my rage and scattered the chorus!
4. But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.
5. Therefore I went wildly with the girls into Abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced.
6. Exceedingly; yea, in good sooth!
7. I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.
8. Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.
9. Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster - O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the Great Goddess!
10. Therein is a pearl.
11. O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.
12. Then I the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl.
13. So bright we could not look! But behold! a blood-red rose upon a rood of glowing gold!
14. So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!
15. I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.
16. I will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you.
17. Thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land.
18. This shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man's life spilt for thy love upon My Altars.
19. Amen.
20. Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation.
21. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone!
22. It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it.
23. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
24. Come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine.
25. It grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven.
26. Thou art behind me: I scream with a mad joy.
27. Then said Ithuriel the strong; let Us also worship this invisible marvel!
28. So did they, and the archangels swept over the heaven. 29. Strange and mystic, like a yellow priest invoking mighty flights of great grey birds from the North, so do I stand and invoke Thee!
30. Let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour!
31. Take away form and its following!
32. I am still.
33. Thou art like an osprey among the rice, I am the great red pelican in the sunset waters.
34. I am like a black eunuch; and Thou art the scimitar. I smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt.
35. Yea! I smite - and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the King's Bedchamber.
36. I smite! The whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak.
37. I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!
38. Again the inhuman voice!
39. I rear my Titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and I smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea.
40. There is a strange pale God, a god of pain and deadly wickedness.
41. My own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire.
42. That pallid God with face averted, that God of subtlety and laughter, that young Doric God, him will I serve.
43. For the end thereof is torment unspeakable.
44. Better the loneliness of the great grey sea!
45. But ill befall the folk of the grey land, my God!
46. Let me smother them with my roses!
47. Oh Thou delicious God, smile sinister!
48. I pluck Thee, O my God, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. How Thou dost melt in my mouth, Thou consecrated sugar of the Stars!
49. The world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin.
50. All the wine of it is on these lips.
51. Thou hast begotten me upon a marble Statue, O my God!
52. The body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. How shall I come forth into the light?
53. Thou art He, O God! O my darling! my child! my plaything! Thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake.
54. I feel the essence of softness.
55. I am hard and strong and male; but come Thou! I shall be soft and weak and feminine.
56. Thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of Thy love. My blood shall stain Thy fiery feet with litanies of Love in Anguish.
57. There shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vineyards.
58. The bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song.
59. I shall gain the Pain of the Goat for my prize; and the God that sitteth upon the shoulders of Time shall drowse.
60. Then shall all this which is written be accomplished: yea, it shall be accomplished.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Inno a Bast, Signora dell’Unguentario
"Profumo che danza, unguento della gioia, respiro della Vita! tu che nel profumo nutri, tu che nel profumo desti l'anima, tu che nel profumo fai cantare la mia lingua nelle armonie delle splendenti stelle! E nelle poesie degli imperituri, li altissimi nei loro capelli intessuti d'argento vivo, lapis e turchese, tu desti vivo il divino! Cantate stelle il profumo di Bast! Tu profumo della vita e dei suoi colori! Tu profumo della deità! tu Bast! Bast della dolce essenza, adornata da tutte le bellezze, madre dell'unguentario, signora delle cure, i tuoi passi profumano poiché tu sei la bellezza che fa nascere gioia! I fiori tutti e le erbe si intingono del tuo unguento! Danzano in tutte le tue divine sfumature, poiché tu sei l'armonia che unisce e che fa unire! Ecco Bast nel verde papiro! Ecco Bast nei fiori del sacro Nilo! Ecco Bast la madre profumo! Profumo che danza, unguento della gioia, respiro della Vita! Danza con me Madre profumo! Guida i miei passi signora della gioia al ritmo delle tue essenze, rendi puro il mio cuore con il tuo incenso segreto, limpido come le tue acque fiorite, splendente come la gioia del tuo sorriso che tutto cambia, che tutto salva! Danzano le stelle imperiture Bast! Il tuo profumo vibra e salva! Danzano le tue sacerdotesse Bast! Il tuo profumo circonda il tuo tempio Bast! Danzano i tuoi figli Bast! Liberi in te i loro cuori profumano! Affinché siano pieni di Maat, nel tuo desiderio, nel tuo mistero sacro, nella tua Vita che crea vita, nel tuo eterno profumo Bast!!"
Inno del profeta di Bast-Sactury of Bast
Immagine del Vaso cosmetico del tesoro di Tutankamon
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“Studiare rende Liberi!”, Massimo Sirelli, 2021, Cinquefrondi. • A cura di Filippo Andreacchio per Associazione Mammalucco Amministrazione Comunale di Cinquefrondi ed il Sindaco Michele Conia. #massimosirelli #cinquefrondi #studiarerendeliberi #freedom mural #robot #love #jump #sirelli #streetartcalabria #popart #contemporaryart #futurismo #culture #colors #matite #lapis (presso Cinquefrondi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSD8fLUDPf3/?utm_medium=tumblr
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[FoW] Lore di Lora - Eredità Perduta 3: Il Laboratorio di Grusbalesta
Erano passate solo poche ore da quando Fiethsing e Kaguya avevano incontrato il vampiro che si faceva chiamare Mikage Seijuro nei boschi occidentali. L’uomo e la sua strana progenie vampiresca erano di certo un motivo di preoccupazione per Kaguya, ma non quanto le città fluttuanti che avevano causato uno squarcio nel cielo.
Mikage sembrava proprio uno dei cattivi a cui era abituata. Vestiva di nero, amava parlare e lei era abbastanza sicura di poterlo sconfiggere. Tuttavia, questo continente fluttuante era tutta un’altra storia. Aveva fatto a pezzi il cielo, era arrivato da un altro mondo in un modo simile alla sua Apollo. Ma era più di questo. Già solo dalla mera presenza di quei corpi di terra galleggianti, Kaguya poteva percepire un peso. Era come una massa nel petto che non se ne andava mai. Era pesante, a volte quasi la soffocava. Nemmeno Lapis aveva causato una tale sensazione, e ora quelle enormi navi ultraterrene gliela stavano provocando da chilometri di distanza.
Era chiaro che ciò preoccupava anche Fiethsing, anche se non ne aveva parlato molto durante il resto del loro cammino attraverso la foresta. Le aveva invece detto che dovevano trovare gli altri membri dei Sei Saggi. Kaguya aveva già sentito parlare Zero e Fiethsing dei loro vecchi compagni, ma non li aveva mai incontrati. Almeno, era abbastanza sicura che non li avrebbe mai incontrati. Fiethsing le aveva parlato di come gli altri erano stati intrappolati all’interno di pietre magiche e che loro avrebbero dovuto risvegliarli. I quattro saggi rimanenti, Grusbalesta, Milest, Moojdart, e Almerius, erano dispersi negli angoli più remoti del mondo. Porgendo a Kaguya una mappa, Fiethsing le mostrò il punto in cui si trovava Grusbalesta. Un laboratorio nascosto non lontano da dove si trovavano ora.
“Kaguya, voglio che tu vada là e liberi Grusbalesta”
“Tu non vieni?” disse Kaguya con espressione accigliata.
“Mi spiace, non posso. Dobbiamo accertarci che nessuno degli altri saggi manchi all’appello, quindi dobbiamo dividerci per coprire più territorio. Però prometto che ti preparerò una bella cena quando faremo ritorno a casa.” Rispose Fiethsing sorridendo.
“Davvero? Okay! È una promessa!” Kaguya acchiappò la mappa da Fiethsing e corse via nella direzione in cui si trovava Grusbalesta.
Fiethsing sogghignò un po’ incupita. “Zero aveva ragione. Non mantengo mai le mie promesse.” La donna elfo partì così nella direzione opposta.
“Bene, suppongo che quella più vicina a me sia Moojdart. Vediamo un po’ come se l’è cavata in questi ultimi anni”.
All’alba del giorno seguente, Kaguya era giunta al laboratorio di Grusbalesta. Beh, “baracca” era forse una definizione più appropriata. Da fuori era esattamente quello che sembrava essere. Un semplice agglomerato di paglia e fango. L’interno, tuttavia, celava un grande centro di ricerca con strumenti sparpagliati e abbandonati lungo tutta la superficie, lenti di ingrandimento, piccole pietre magiche, e tanti, tanti appunti scientifici. Al centro di tutto volteggiava una pietra magica di un profondo color viola, che Kaguya immaginò essere lo stesso Grusbalesta.
Si avvicinò alla pietra lentamente, realizzando all’improvviso che non aveva la minima idea di come fare a liberarlo da quella forma. Ma non appena si fece più vicino, la sua mano si protese da sola, come per un riflesso automatico. Istintivamente la poggiò delicatamente sulla cima dell’oggetto fluttuante. Per un momento non accadde nulla, ma all’improvviso una luce abbagliante illuminò l’ambiente circostante. Quando Kaguya aprì gli occhi, un uomo alto con dei sottili baffi e lunghi, arruffati capelli brizzolati era apparso. Egli sorrise calorosamente, ma i suoi occhi portavano gli inconfondibili segni di qualcuno che aveva trascorso troppe notti insonni a scrivere appunti al lume di candela.
“Pare che tu debba dirmi un mucchio di cose signorina” disse Grusbalesta. “Ma prima forse faresti meglio a prenderti una pausa”. L’uomo aveva subito notato le palpebre di Kaguya che si stavano abbassando.
Dopo un lungo pisolino, Kaguya narrò la sequenza dei recenti eventi che avevano preceduto il suo arrivo al rifugio. Per la maggior parte del tempo Grusbalesta rimase in silenzio, ascoltando attentamente e mostrando solo di rado grandi reazioni. Anche quando Kaguya gli racconto del viaggio ad Attoractia, un intero altro mondo, l’espressione dell’uomo rimase impassibile come se si stesse discutendo del tempo atmosferico.
“Penso di essermi fatto un’idea generale”
“Wow! Sei davvero intelligente per uno che è fuori dal giro da un po’ di tempo”, ridacchiò Kaguya scherzando sulla recente rinascita di Grusbalesta dalla pietra magica.
“E’ la mia materia signorina” Sorrise ancora calorosamente, i suoi stanchi occhi scintillarono da dietro gli occhiali.
“Potresti smetterla di chiamarmi ‘signorina’?” chiese Kaguya. “Suona serioso e formale, io odio quel genere di cose”
“Perdonami, è una vecchia abitudine di un’altra epoca. È circa un secolo che non mi sgranchisco le gambe e immagino che certe cose siano un po’ cambiate nel frattempo. In particolare…” Grusbalesta guardò l’abbigliamento piuttosto appariscente di Kaguya “Quello che la moda considera accettabile”.
“Uh? Che cosa c’è che non va nei miei vestiti? Si sono sporcati?” Al commento di Grusbalesta, Kaguya girò in tondo verificando il suo completo in cerca di macchie o tracce di sporco.
“No, non è certamente quello che intendevo” disse Grusbalesta sogghignando. Un secolo prima, durante la grande guerra delle pietre magiche, Grusbalesta e gli altri Saggi si erano volontariamente richiusi nelle pietre magiche come parte di un piano per portare la pace tra le nazioni dell’epoca. Dal racconto di Kaguya, pareva che nessuna di esse fosse sopravvissuta a quei cento anni. Tutti i suoi amici e compagni erano morti da tempo. Un piccolo conforto era sapere che gli altri saggi erano ancora vivi, sia che fossero nelle loro sembianze originali o in quelle di pietra magica. Zero, a quanto sembrava, era cresciuta da sola mentre Fiethsing non era cambiata molto dopo tutto quel tempo. O quantomeno era abbastanza sicuro che fosse così, le descrizioni di Kaguya erano piuttosto complicate da seguire.
“Questa non è per nulla simile alla precedente. Sembra non ricordare nulla della sua precedente vita” Pensò tra sé e sé.
“Ci sono un sacco di cose che devo chiederti, vecchio Grus. Ti ho già parlato di quel cattivo, Lapis, giusto? Ma io e la zia Fiethsing abbiamo incontrato quest’altro strano tipo prima di venire qui. Si stava nascondendo nelle antiche foreste occidentali. Una specie di nonno vampiro. Come si chiamava?” Kaguya si picchiettò le tempie per un momento “Mi…Mika…Miku…”
“Mikage” disse Grusbalesta, scattando subito sull’attenti.
“Ah sì! Giusto! Come fai a conoscerlo, vecchio Grus?”
Grusbalesta si morse il labbro. Pareva che non tutto fosse cambiato nei millenni trascorsi.
“È una mia vecchia conoscenza… Di qualche migliaio di anni orsono. Che io sappia, prima del vostro incontro con lui, gli unici ad averlo conosciuto eravamo io e un’altra persona”. Non appena ebbe parlato, Grubalesta si mise a rovistare tra le cianfrusaglie sul pavimento, raddrizzandosi al contempo mentre cercava qualcosa.
“Lo conoscevi? Qual è il suo piano? C’è qualcosa di speciale in lui?”
“È un eterno. Un signore dei vampiri”
“Eh? Cosa significa?” Chiese Kaguya senza esitazione. Grusbalesta sogghignò ancora.
“Sì. Suppongo che l’attuale te non sappia nulla di queste cose. Scusami. Lascia che ti spieghi”. Grusbalesta si prese un momento per raccogliere alcune carte sparse, dopodiché prese una vecchia sedia di metallo e si sedette.
“Prima che cominci, voglio che tu capisca che questa non è una cosa di cui ho mai fatto esperienza personalmente. Il mio maestro ha tramandato questa storia a me. Questo racconto precede di molto persino la grande guerra delle pietre magiche accaduta nella mia era.” Kaguya non disse nulla, ma la sua espressione fece chiaramente intendere che stesse ascoltando attentamente.
“Molto tempo fa, un grande drago divino di nome Ragnarok giunse in questo mondo da chissà dove. Sono sicuro di non doverlo spiegare a te, ma questo drago aveva il potere di viaggiare attraverso grandi lacerazioni dello spazio per muoversi da un mondo all’altro in un batter d’occhio. Perché questa creatura venne sul nostro mondo nessuno lo sa con certezza. Il mio maestro era solito pensare che fosse inseguito da qualcosa, ma non ebbe mai nulla più che l’intuito per avvalorare questa tesi.” Grusbalesta fece una pausa come se stesse considerando qualcosa, poi proseguì.
“Il possente dragone, anche se ferito, gettò scompiglio su tutto il pianeta, dimostrando un immenso potere tale da minacciare ogni forma di vita. I cinque più grandi maghi del mondo si riunirono per fermare la bestia. Tra di essi c’erano Mikage Seijuro e il mio maestro. Anche nell’eventualità che fossero riusciti a uccidere il terribile drago, il suo eterno potere sarebbe rimasto all’interno del suo corpo. I cinque temevano che qualcuno tra i vari regni, alla ricerca di quel potere, avrebbe reclamato per sé quel cadavere e lo avrebbe conteso agli altri. Decisero così di farsi carico ciascuno di una parte del potere di Ragnarok. Mikage bevve il sangue della creatura e ne assunse il potere dell’immortalità. Il mio maestro prese gli artigli del drago e da essi nacquero i cinque colori dell’incomparabile potere magico.”
“Aspetta un attimo, sono confusa” lo interruppe Kaguya “Questo accadde quanto tu eri un bambino?”
“No Kaguya, fu molto tempo prima”
“Ahh, non sono brava con tutte queste cose storiche. Ci sono troppe cose da tenere a mente”.
“Ah ma c’è molto di più di quella storia, ma penso che probabilmente lo serberò per la prossima volta”. Si alzò dalla sua sedia e ricominciò a rimettere in funzione le sue vecchie postazioni di lavoro. Il compito della famiglia di Grusbalesta di ricercare la natura e l’origine delle pietre magiche era cominciato molto tempo fa. Mille anni fa era stato appunto lui a scoprire che alcune di loro potevano essere potenzialmente pericolose, giusto appena prima che la guerra cominciasse. Aveva infatti teorizzato che alcune pietre magiche lasciassero come delle particolari tracce magiche che agivano come fari guida per esseri di altri mondi attirandoli vicino al nostro. In disaccordo col suo maestro, lui pensava ci fosse un motivo per il quale Ragnarok era arrivato sul loro mondo. Dai racconti di Kaguya sembrava che lei e i suoi amici fossero di recente venuti in possesso di una pietra magica assai potente quanto inusuale. Grusbalesta era stato in primis e per la maggior parte del suo tempo, un uomo di scienza. Avrebbe preferito prendersi del tempo, osservare e ricercare il fenomeno come prima che scoppiasse la guerra mille anni prima. Purtroppo stavolta le cose erano un po’ diverse. Mikage era tornato. Non aveva scelta, avrebbe dovuto chiedere il suo aiuto ancora una volta.
“Signorina” cominciò Grusbalesta “Lascia a me il compito di occuparmi del Mikage, è un compito che è passato a me dal mio maestro.”
“Non cambierai mai vero?!” una voce familiare li sorprese entrambi. In piedi sulla soglia appena fuori dal laboratorio, dove prima non c’era nulla, era apparsa Fiethsing, silenziosa come una foglia cadente.
“Zietta Fiethsing!” esclamò Kaguya, girandosi per guardare la guardiana.
“Fiethsing?! Questa si che è una sorpresa, quando sei stata risvegliata? Sembra che tu sia un pochino invecchiata”.
“All’incirca trent’anni fa penso. Significa che ora sono io il tuo collega anziano” disse sogghignando.
“Mmm vedo che trent’anni però non hanno fatto molto per il tuo livello di maturità” rimarcò Grusbalesta.
“Ah ah ah credo di si” rise Fiethsing
“Ottimo è un bene che tu sia qui. Ci sono un po’ di cose di cui dobbiamo occuparci. Nell’ordine: primo, non ti posso aiutare ma posso notare che sin dal mio risveglio ho una strana e permanente sensazione di peso nel petto. Da quello che mi ha detto questa signorina sembra che siamo testimoni del ritorno della grande nazione dei maghi: Altea”
“Quelli delle vecchie leggende? Lo sospettavo ma non ne ero sicura” ammise Fiethsing.
“Non ricordi nulla di quanto ci aveva detto il nostro maestro?”
“Welser ne aveva parlato?” Fiethsing piegò la testa di lato.
“Infinite volte. Era una nazione di grandi maghi, che lanciavano gli incantesimi in maniera differente dalla nostra. In un modo derivato da un’antica forma di magia da tempo dimenticata. Un tipo di ‘Antica Magia’ per così dire. Kaguya mi ha parlato della strana pietra magica in cui il vostro gruppo si è imbattuto. Se le pietre magiche possono agire da ‘fari’ per alcuni esseri, deve essere vero anche il contrario, queste strane pietre stanno comparendo in giro per il mondo come reazione al crescente uso dell’antica magia.”
“Ha… Non mi aspettavo nulla di meno dal grande ricercatore delle pietre magiche in persona” disse Fiethsing.
“Avresti potuto arrivarci anche da sola se solo avessi prestato più attenzione alle lezioni del nostro maestro” la rimproverò Grusbalesta. “Non divaghiamo troppo però dalle questioni che ci ritroviamo tra le mani comunque. Anche in questo momento sono sicuro che tutti percepiamo l’incombente presenza di Altea. Se le vecchie leggende dicono il vero dubito che rimarranno neutrali molto a lungo. Dobbiamo usare il tempo a nostra disposizione nel migliore dei modi. Abbiamo già abbastanza problemi e fin troppe cose da fare se contiamo anche solo Lapis e Mikage”.
Non è dato sapere se per un capriccio della natura o per una coincidenza, in quel momento esatto sia Fiethsing che Grusbalesta avvertirono una risonanza magica famigliare attraversare la terra. La vibrazione magica era difficile da rintracciare esattamente, ma non c’era dubbio che si stava propagando attraverso il regno in direzione ovest, il che voleva dire che la sua sorgente era ad est, oltre il Palazzo di Luce.
“Qualcuno ha risvegliato Moojdart” sottolineò Grusbalesta, la preoccupazione era visibile sul suo volto. “Ma c’è qualcosa di sbagliato in lei”
“Sono andata a controllare Moojdart prima di venire qui ed era scomparsa, oddio chissà cosa mi dirà Zero per questo” si lamentò Fiethsing.
“E’ di questo che ti preoccupi? Ho bisogno che tu vada a vedere cosa sta succedendo a Moojdart”
“Io?! Ma noi due non ci siamo mai prese molto eh”
“Questo non sarebbe successo se avessi ritrovato la sua pietra prima. E’ una tua responsabilità”
“ Uff… Penso di si”
“Inoltre penso che prenderò in prestito questa signorina per un po’”
“Huh?” Io? Perché?!” Kaguya saltò in piedi quando si accorse che stavano parlando di lei.
“A causa del tuo potere signorina, è certo che sia fondamentale nella nostra battaglia”
“Davvero lo pensi? Nell’altro mondo Alice era molto più forte di me” confessò Kaguya.
“Deduco sia un risultato della tua reincarnazione” disse Grusbalesta togliendosi i capelli dal viso. “Abbiamo davvero bisogno della tua vera forza, dobbiamo accedere alla conoscenza delle tue vite precedenti e per farlo dobbiamo ricostruire la luna perduta. Per ciò intuisco mi servirà il tuo aiuto per cercare la pietra magica della luna perduta”.
“Ok tutto è deciso!” Disse Fiethsing battendo le mani. “Tornerò al Palazzo di Luce e me la vedrò io con Moojdart. Kaguya fai la brava e fai tutto quello che lo zio Grus ti dirà di fare ok? Fa del tuo meglio per trovare quella pietra!”
“Okay…” rispose Kaguya “ Sembra proprio che tutto quello che ho fatto negli ultimi tempi sia stato cercare quelle vecchie pietre magiche ammuffite”
Improvvisamente, Fiethsing che era rimasta sulla soglia del laboratorio / baracca si girò con un’espressione molto seria alquanto inusuale.
“Questi tempi pacifici non dureranno per sempre. Quando verrà il tempo di combattere penserai di essere molto fortunata a dover solo cercare le pietre magiche.
“Oh… Okay zietta scusami” disse Kaguya chinando un po’ il capo come per scusarsi e quindi ancora una volta Fiethsing lasciò Kaguya.
“Bene signorina, prepariamoci per i nostri rispettivi viaggi. Procederemo insieme almeno per la prima parte del cammino.”
“Okay” rispose Kaguya, mentre ancora guardava Fiethsing camminare in lontananza. “Ma davvero piantala di chiamarmi ‘signorina’”.
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April 7, 2022 e.v., Dies Jovis, An Vviii e.l.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Day of Daleth, the Day of the Empress
Hebrew Letter: Daleth
Numerical Value as Letter: 4
Numerical Value as Word: 434 (Daleth+Lamed+Tav)
Meaning: A Door.
Thoth Card: The Empress (Atu III)
Alternate Title: The Daughter of the Mighty Ones.
Image:
Correspondences:
Tree of Life Path Association: Key 14 - Binah to Chokmah (from Sephira 3-2)
Astrological Sign: Venus
Element: -
Egyptian Godforms: Hathoor
Geomantic Figure: Heptagram
Gemstones: Emerald, Turquoise
Perfumes: Sandalwood, Myrtle, all Soft Voluptuous Odors
Plants: Myrtle, Rose, Clover, Fig, Peach, Apple
Animals: Sparrow, Dove, Sow
Colors:
King Scale – Emerald green
Queen Scale – Sky blue
Prince Scale – Early spring green
Princess Scale – Bright rose of cerise rayed pale yellow
The Secret Instruction of the Master:
This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will!
Love and let love! Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof!
Mnemonic:
Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought's reach: the wholeness of the world is Love.
Recommended Text for Meditation: Liber VII Liberi vel Lapis Lazuli, Cap. 7
Liber VII Liberi vel Lapis Lazuli
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple.
A.˙. A.˙.
Publication in Class A.
Imprimatur:
N. Fra A.˙. A.˙.
VII
1. By the burning of the incense was the Word revealed, and by the distant drug.
2. O meal and honey and oil! O beautiful flag of the moon, that she hangs out in the centre of bliss!
3. These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of Osiris, so that the flaming God may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear.
4. But of pure black marble is the sorry statue, and the changeless pain of the eyes is bitter to the blind.
5. We understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the golden rod of the golden God.
6. We know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer Olalam! Imal! Tutulu! as it is written in the ancient book.
7. Three words of that book are as life to a new aeon; no god has read the whole.
8. But thou and I, O God, have written it page by page.
9. Ours is the elevenfold reading of the Elevenfold word.
10. These seven letters together make seven diverse words; each word is divine, and seven sentences are hidden therein.
11. Thou art the Word, O my darling, my lord, my master!
12. O come to me, mix the fire and the water, all shall dissolve.
13. I await Thee in sleeping, in waking. I invoke Thee no more; for Thou art in me, O Thou who hast made me a beautiful
instrument tuned to Thy rapture.
14. Yet art Thou ever apart, even as I.
15. I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld Thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife.
16. I remember Thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: Thy kisses abide.
17. There is none other beside Thee in the whole Universe of Love.
18. My God, I love Thee, O Thou goat with gilded horns!
19. Thou beautiful bull of Apis! Thou beautiful serpent of Apep! Thou beautiful child of the Pregnant Goddess!
20. Thou hast stirred in Thy sleep, O ancient sorrow of years! Thou hast raised Thine head to strike, and all is dissolved into the Abyss of Glory.
21. An end to the letters of the words! An end to the sevenfold speech.
22. Resolve me the wonder of it all into the figure of a gaunt swift camel striding over the sand.
23. Lonely is he, and abominable; yet hath he gained the crown.
24. Oh rejoice! rejoice!
25. My God! O my God! I am but a speck in the star-dust of ages; I am the Master of the Secret of Things.
26. I am the Revealer and the Preparer. Mine is the Sword - and the Mitre and the Winged Wand!
27. I am the Initiator and the Destroyer. Mine is the Globe - and the Bennu bird and the Lotus of Isis my daughter!
28. I am the One beyond these all; and I bear the symbols of the mighty darkness.
29. There shall be a sigil as of a vast black brooding ocean of death and the central blaze of darkness, radiating its night upon all.
30. It shall swallow up that lesser darkness.
31. But in that profound who shall answer: What is?
32. Not I.
33. Not Thou, O God!
34. Come, let us no more reason together; let us enjoy! Let us be ourselves, silent, unique, apart.
35. O lonely woods of the world! In what recesses will ye hide our love?
36. The forest of the spears of the Most High is called Night, and Hades, and the Day of Wrath; but I am His captain, and I bear His cup.
37. Fear me not with my spearmen! They shall slay the demons with their petty prongs. Ye shall be free.
38. Ah, slaves! ye will not - ye know not how to will.
39. Yet the music of my spears shall be a song of freedom.
40. A great bird shall sweep from the abyss of Joy, and bear ye away to be my cup-bearers.
41. Come, O my God, in one last rapture let us attain to the Union with the Many!
42. In the silence of Things, in the Night of Forces, beyond the accursed domain of the Three, let us enjoy our love!
43. My darling! My darling! away, away beyond the Assembly and the Law and the Enlightenment unto an Anarchy of solitude and Darkness!
44. For even thus must we veil the brilliance of our Self.
45. My darling! My darling!
46. O my God, but the love in Me bursts over the bonds of Space and Time; my love is spilt among them that love not love.
47. My wine is poured out for them that never tasted wine.
48. The fumes thereof shall intoxicate them and the vigour of my love shall breed mighty children from their maidens.
49. Yea! without draught, without embrace: - and the Voice answered Yea! these things shall be.
50. Then I sought a Word for Myself; nay, for myself.
51. And the Word came: O Thou! it is well. Heed naught! I love Thee! I love Thee!
52. Therefore had I faith unto the end of all; yea, unto the end of all.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Holy Day Celebration 3/31/21 e.v.
March 31, 2021 æ.v.
Dies Mercurii,
Sol 11° ♈︎ : Luna 26° ♏︎ : ☿︎ : Ⅴⅴⅰⅰi
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Day of Kaph, the Day of Fortune
Hebrew Letter: Kaph
Numerical Value as Letter: 20
Numerical Value as Word: 100/820 (Kaph+Peh)
Meaning: Bent or Hollow Hand, Palm, Fist.
Thoth Card: Fortune (Atu X)
Alternate Title: The Wheel of Fortune, The Lord of the Forces of Life.
Image:
Correspondences:
Tree of Life Path Association: Key 21 - Netzach to Chesed (from Sephira 7-4)
Astrological Sign: Jupiter
Element: -
Egyptian Godforms: Amoun-Ra
Geomantic Figure: Square and Rhombus
Gemstones: Sapphire, Amethyst, Lapis Lazuli
Perfumes: Ammoniacum, Golden Copal, Mace, Balm of Gilead, Saffron, Ash, all generous and expansive odors
Plants: Hyssop, Oak, Poplar, Fig, Arnica, Cedar
Animals: Hart, Eagle, Dolphin, Praying Mantis.
Colors:
King Scale – Violet
Queen Scale – Blue
Prince Scale – Rich Purple
Princess Scale – Bright blue rayed yellow
The Secret Instruction of the Master:
Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee! The axle moveth not: attain thou that!
Mnemonic:
Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle's immobile.
Recommended Text for Meditation:
L Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, Cap. 3
Liber Liberi vel Lapdis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum Sub Figura VII
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple. A.˙.A.˙. Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A.˙. A.˙.
III
1. I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.
2. But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!
3. God! how I ran out in my rage and scattered the chorus!
4. But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.
5. Therefore I went wildly with the girls into Abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced.
6. Exceedingly; yea, in good sooth!
7. I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.
8. Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.
9. Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster - O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the Great Goddess!
10. Therein is a pearl.
11. O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.
12. Then I the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl.
13. So bright we could not look! But behold! a blood-red rose upon a rood of glowing gold!
14. So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!
15. I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.
16. I will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you.
17. Thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land.
18. This shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man's life spilt for thy love upon My Altars.
19. Amen.
20. Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation.
21. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone!
22. It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it.
23. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
24. Come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine.
25. It grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven.
26. Thou art behind me: I scream with a mad joy.
27. Then said Ithuriel the strong; let Us also worship this invisible marvel!
28. So did they, and the archangels swept over the heaven. 29. Strange and mystic, like a yellow priest invoking mighty flights of great grey birds from the North, so do I stand and invoke Thee!
30. Let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour!
31. Take away form and its following!
32. I am still.
33. Thou art like an osprey among the rice, I am the great red pelican in the sunset waters.
34. I am like a black eunuch; and Thou art the scimitar. I smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt.
35. Yea! I smite - and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the King's Bedchamber.
36. I smite! The whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak.
37. I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!
38. Again the inhuman voice!
39. I rear my Titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and I smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea.
40. There is a strange pale God, a god of pain and deadly wickedness.
41. My own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire.
42. That pallid God with face averted, that God of subtlety and laughter, that young Doric God, him will I serve.
43. For the end thereof is torment unspeakable.
44. Better the loneliness of the great grey sea!
45. But ill befall the folk of the grey land, my God!
46. Let me smother them with my roses!
47. Oh Thou delicious God, smile sinister!
48. I pluck Thee, O my God, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. How Thou dost melt in my mouth, Thou consecrated sugar of the Stars!
49. The world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin.
50. All the wine of it is on these lips.
51. Thou hast begotten me upon a marble Statue, O my God!
52. The body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. How shall I come forth into the light?
53. Thou art He, O God! O my darling! my child! my plaything! Thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake.
54. I feel the essence of softness.
55. I am hard and strong and male; but come Thou! I shall be soft and weak and feminine.
56. Thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of Thy love. My blood shall stain Thy fiery feet with litanies of Love in Anguish.
57. There shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vineyards.
58. The bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song.
59. I shall gain the Pain of the Goat for my prize; and the God that sitteth upon the shoulders of Time shall drowse.
60. Then shall all this which is written be accomplished: yea, it shall be accomplished.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Thelemic Holy Day Meditation - March 31, 2020 æ.v.
March 31, 2020 æ.v.
Dies Jovis, Sol 11° Aries, Luna 7° Cancer
An Vvi æ.n.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Day of Kaph, the Day of Fortune
Hebrew Letter:
Kaph
Numerical Value as Letter:
20
Numerical Value as Word:
100/820 (Kaph+Peh)
Meaning:
Bent or Hollow Hand, Palm, Fist.
Thoth Card:
Fortune (Atu X)
Alternate Title:
The Wheel of Fortune, The Lord of the Forces of Life.
Image:
Correspondences:
Tree of Life Path Association:
Key 21 - Netzach to Chesed (from Sephira 7-4)
Astrological Sign:
Jupiter
Element:
-
Egyptian Godforms:
Amoun-Ra
Geomantic Figure:
Square and Rhombus
Gemstones:
Sapphire, Amethyst, Lapis Lazuli
Perfumes:
Ammoniacum, Golden Copal, Mace, Balm of Gilead, Saffron, Ash, all generous and expansive odors
Plants:
Hyssop, Oak, Poplar, Fig, Arnica, Cedar
Animals:
Hart, Eagle, Dolphin, Praying Mantis.
Colors:
King Scale – Violet Queen Scale – Blue Prince Scale – Rich Purple Princess Scale – Bright blue rayed yellow
The Secret Instruction of the Master:
Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee! The axle moveth not: attain thou that!
Mnemonic:
Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle's immobile.
Verse from Liber Arcanorum:
10. Now then the Father of all issued as a mighty wheel; the Sphinx, and the dog-headed god, and Typhon, were bound on his circumference.
Genius of the Home of Mercury:
Kerugnaviel
Genius of the Prison of the Qliphoth:
Kurgnasiax
Recommended Text for Meditation:
L Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, Cap. 3
Liber Liberi vel Lapdis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum Sub Figura VII
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple. A.˙.A.˙. Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A.˙. A.˙.
III
1. I was the priest of Ammon-Ra in the temple of Ammon-Ra at Thebai.
2. But Bacchus came singing with his troops of vine-clad girls, of girls in dark mantles; and Bacchus in the midst like a fawn!
3. God! how I ran out in my rage and scattered the chorus!
4. But in my temple stood Bacchus as the priest of Ammon-Ra.
5. Therefore I went wildly with the girls into Abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced.
6. Exceedingly; yea, in good sooth!
7. I will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of Bacchus.
8. Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.
9. Within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster - O glory of Priapus! O beatitude of the Great Goddess!
10. Therein is a pearl.
11. O Pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread Ammon-Ra.
12. Then I the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl.
13. So bright we could not look! But behold! a blood-red rose upon a rood of glowing gold!
14. So I adored the God. Bacchus! thou art the lover of my God!
15. I who was priest of Ammon-Ra, who saw the Nile flow by for many moons, for many, many moons, am the young fawn of the grey land.
16. I will set up my dance in your conventicles, and my secret loves shall be sweet among you.
17. Thou shalt have a lover among the lords of the grey land.
18. This shall he bring unto thee, without which all is in vain; a man's life spilt for thy love upon My Altars.
19. Amen.
20. Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation.
21. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone!
22. It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it.
23. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
24. Come! let us irritate the vessels of the earth: they shall distil strange wine.
25. It grows under my hand: it shall cover the whole heaven.
26. Thou art behind me: I scream with a mad joy.
27. Then said Ithuriel the strong; let Us also worship this invisible marvel!
28. So did they, and the archangels swept over the heaven.
29. Strange and mystic, like a yellow priest invoking mighty flights of great grey birds from the North, so do I stand and invoke Thee!
30. Let them obscure not the sun with their wings and their clamour!
31. Take away form and its following!
32. I am still.
33. Thou art like an osprey among the rice, I am the great red pelican in the sunset waters.
34. I am like a black eunuch; and Thou art the scimitar. I smite off the head of the light one, the breaker of bread and salt.
35. Yea! I smite - and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the King's Bedchamber.
36. I smite! The whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak.
37. I know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of Hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar!
38. Again the inhuman voice!
39. I rear my Titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and I smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea.
40. There is a strange pale God, a god of pain and deadly wickedness.
41. My own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire.
42. That pallid God with face averted, that God of subtlety and laughter, that young Doric God, him will I serve.
43. For the end thereof is torment unspeakable.
44. Better the loneliness of the great grey sea!
45. But ill befall the folk of the grey land, my God!
46. Let me smother them with my roses!
47. Oh Thou delicious God, smile sinister!
48. I pluck Thee, O my God, like a purple plum upon a sunny tree. How Thou dost melt in my mouth, Thou consecrated sugar of the Stars!
49. The world is all grey before mine eyes; it is like an old worn wine-skin.
50. All the wine of it is on these lips.
51. Thou hast begotten me upon a marble Statue, O my God!
52. The body is icy cold with the coldness of a million moons; it is harder than the adamant of eternity. How shall I come forth into the light?
53. Thou art He, O God! O my darling! my child! my plaything! Thou art like a cluster of maidens, like a multitude of swans upon the lake.
54. I feel the essence of softness.
55. I am hard and strong and male; but come Thou! I shall be soft and weak and feminine.
56. Thou shalt crush me in the wine-press of Thy love. My blood shall stain Thy fiery feet with litanies of Love in Anguish.
57. There shall be a new flower in the fields, a new vintage in the vineyards.
58. The bees shall gather a new honey; the poets shall sing a new song.
59. I shall gain the Pain of the Goat for my prize; and the God that sitteth upon the shoulders of Time shall drowse.
60. Then shall all this which is written be accomplished: yea, it shall be accomplished.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Holy Day Meditation for April 7, 2020 æ.v.
April 7, 2020 æ.v. Dies Martis, Sol 18° Aries, Luna 9° Libra An Vvi æ.n.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Day of Daleth, the Day of the Empress
Hebrew Letter: Daleth
Numerical Value as Letter: 4
Numerical Value as Word: 434 (Daleth+Lamed+Tav)
Meaning: A Door.
Thoth Card: The Empress (Atu III)
Alternate Title: The Daughter of the Mighty Ones.
Image:
Correspondences:
Tree of Life Path Association: Key 14 - Binah to Chokmah (from Sephira 3-2)
Astrological Sign: Venus
Element: -
Egyptian Godforms: Hathoor
Geomantic Figure: Heptagram
Gemstones: Emerald, Turquoise
Perfumes: Sandalwood, Myrtle, all Soft Voluptuous Odors
Plants: Myrtle, Rose, Clover, Fig, Peach, Apple
Animals: Sparrow, Dove, Sow
Colors:
King Scale – Emerald green
Queen Scale – Sky blue
Prince Scale – Early spring green
Princess Scale – Bright rose of cerise rayed pale yellow
The Secret Instruction of the Master:
This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will! Love and let love! Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof!
Mnemonic:
Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above
Thought's reach: the wholeness of the world is Love.
Liber Arcanorum Verse
3. The Virgin of God is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh Seventy to her Four. In her heart is Hadit the invisible glory.
Genius of the House of Mercury
DhnaⲜartarωθ
Genius of the Prison of the Qliphoth
Dagadgiel
Recommended Text for Meditation:
Liber VII Liberi vel Lapis Lazuli, Cap. 7
Liber VII Liberi vel Lapis Lazuli
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple. A.˙. A.˙. Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A.˙. A.˙.
VII
1. By the burning of the incense was the Word revealed, and by the distant drug.
2. O meal and honey and oil! O beautiful flag of the moon, that she hangs out in the centre of bliss!
3. These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of Osiris, so that the flaming God may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear.
4. But of pure black marble is the sorry statue, and the changeless pain of the eyes is bitter to the blind.
5. We understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the golden rod of the golden God.
6. We know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer Olalam! Imal! Tutulu! as it is written in the ancient book.
7. Three words of that book are as life to a new aeon; no god has read the whole.
8. But thou and I, O God, have written it page by page.
9. Ours is the elevenfold reading of the Elevenfold word.
10. These seven letters together make seven diverse words; each word is divine, and seven sentences are hidden therein.
11. Thou art the Word, O my darling, my lord, my master!
12. O come to me, mix the fire and the water, all shall dissolve.
13. I await Thee in sleeping, in waking. I invoke Thee no more; for Thou art in me, O Thou who hast made me a beautiful instrument tuned to Thy rapture.
14. Yet art Thou ever apart, even as I.
15. I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld Thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife.
16. I remember Thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: Thy kisses abide.
17. There is none other beside Thee in the whole Universe of Love.
18. My God, I love Thee, O Thou goat with gilded horns!
19. Thou beautiful bull of Apis! Thou beautiful serpent of Apep! Thou beautiful child of the Pregnant Goddess!
20. Thou hast stirred in Thy sleep, O ancient sorrow of years! Thou hast raised Thine head to strike, and all is dissolved into the Abyss of Glory.
21. An end to the letters of the words! An end to the sevenfold speech.
22. Resolve me the wonder of it all into the figure of a gaunt swift camel striding over the sand.
23. Lonely is he, and abominable; yet hath he gained the crown.
24. Oh rejoice! rejoice!
25. My God! O my God! I am but a speck in the star-dust of ages; I am the Master of the Secret of Things.
26. I am the Revealer and the Preparer. Mine is the Sword - and the Mitre and the Winged Wand!
27. I am the Initiator and the Destroyer. Mine is the Globe - and the Bennu bird and the Lotus of Isis my daughter!
28. I am the One beyond these all; and I bear the symbols of the mighty darkness.
29. There shall be a sigil as of a vast black brooding ocean of death and the central blaze of darkness, radiating its night upon all.
30. It shall swallow up that lesser darkness.
31. But in that profound who shall answer: What is?
32. Not I.
33. Not Thou, O God!
34. Come, let us no more reason together; let us enjoy! Let us be ourselves, silent, unique, apart.
35. O lonely woods of the world! In what recesses will ye hide our love?
36. The forest of the spears of the Most High is called Night, and Hades, and the Day of Wrath; but I am His captain, and I bear His cup.
37. Fear me not with my spearmen! They shall slay the demons with their petty prongs. Ye shall be free.
38. Ah, slaves! ye will not - ye know not how to will.
39. Yet the music of my spears shall be a song of freedom.
40. A great bird shall sweep from the abyss of Joy, and bear ye away to be my cup-bearers.
41. Come, O my God, in one last rapture let us attain to the Union with the Many!
42. In the silence of Things, in the Night of Forces, beyond the accursed domain of the Three, let us enjoy our love!
43. My darling! My darling! away, away beyond the Assembly and the Law and the Enlightenment unto an Anarchy of solitude and Darkness!
44. For even thus must we veil the brilliance of our Self.
45. My darling! My darling!
46. O my God, but the love in Me bursts over the bonds of Space and Time; my love is spilt among them that love not love.
47. My wine is poured out for them that never tasted wine.
48. The fumes thereof shall intoxicate them and the vigour of my love shall breed mighty children from their maidens.
49. Yea! without draught, without embrace: - and the Voice answered Yea! these things shall be.
50. Then I sought a Word for Myself; nay, for myself.
51. And the Word came: O Thou! it is well. Heed naught! I love Thee! I love Thee!
52. Therefore had I faith unto the end of all; yea, unto the end of all.
Love is the law, love under will.
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