[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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.
33
LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE
56. And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an
Uræus 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.
59. And I answered and said: It is done even according to
Thy word. And it was done. And they that read the book
and debated thereon passed into the desolate Land of Barren
Words. And they that sealed up the book into their blood
were the chosen of Adonai, and the Thought of Adonai was
a Word and a Deed; and they abode in the Land that the far-
off travellers call Naught.
60. O land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! I
will dwell therein with my Lord for ever.
61. And the Lord Adonai delighteth in me, and I bear the
Cup of his gladness unto the weary ones of the old grey land.
62. They that drink thereof are smitten of disease; the
abomination hath hold upon them, and their torment is like
the thick black smoke of the evil abode.
34
LIBER LXV
63. But the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even
as my Lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. There is no
wine like unto this wine.
64. They are gathered together into a glowing heart, as Ra
that gathered his clouds about Him at eventide into a molten
sea of joy; and the snake that is the crown of Ra bindeth
them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses.
65. So also is the end of the book, and the Lord Adonai is
about it on all sides lie a Thunderbolt, and a Pylon, and a
Snake, and a Phallus, and in the midst thereof He is like the
Woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps;
yea, the milk of the stars from her paps. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]