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[1:00]
Behold did I - oh I, great master, dominion held thrice -
On a night untempted by vice, ever so faster a striking sight:
Restraining my fright as mine eyes did now see things -
A being o'er and from firmament domineering.
[1:17]
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I am Poimandres", he said as I looked on, aghast.
"Mind of Sovereignty, with you at all times,
Here to now teach thee that for which thy heart pines."
(For which thy heart pines)
[1:34]
And then this being did its form change,
My thoughts, though fleeting, thought of fleeing at this cosmic image,
'Til I was shown the way:
[1:49]
"The elements from darkness come and interchange,
[1:55]
And from 'I', God, they are not separate."
[2:35]
"Know that God's song evermore sings,
From it all might doth then spring,
A divine mirroring,
Of all potentials and all formed things.
So Air, Fire, Earth, and Water,
Are but imitators, impostors,
Of the Divine's most-Heavenly Daughters;
These truths have I here formed - so be not forlorn - truths formed and taught us."
[2:55]
"Mind, the father of all, who is life and light, gave birth to a man
like himself whom he loved as his own child. The man was most fair:
he had the father's image; and God, who was really in love with his own
form, bestowed on him all his craftworks."
[3:30]
"Mortal!
Thus the body is, succumbing to sickness and pain.
Immortal!
So is awareness: one body dies, another it gains.
Water!
Fertilizer supreme, the receiver of all.
Fire!
Active force, maturer, phallus tall."
[3:52] SPOKEN
"Nature took spirit from the ether and brought forth bodies in the shape
of the man. From life and light the man became soul and mind; from
life came soul, from light came mind, and all things in the cosmos of
the senses remained thus until a cycle ended."
[6:40]
"Holy is God, the father of all;
Holy is God, self-counsellor;
Holy is God, known by all;
Holy are you, creator-by-word-expounder;
Holy are you, whom nature reflects;
Holy are you, whom nothing doth transcend;
Holy are you, strength in all its aspects;
Holy are you, most reverend;
Holy are you, totally perfect."
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[0:57]
Form - what is its nature?
How be the continuum of those things which here be?
How be here formed that found through contemplation,
And too those things here which we smell, hear and see?
In any one 'thing' which we apprehend,
How is it that such a thing may even exist?
How, from that object to us, is thought sent?
And of bounds: why is that object betwixt?
[1:35]
COAGULA!
Bringing together all flocks in thy name,
For any single object is itself a composite,
Of other such objects, subject to change.
To any 'one' which the mind's eye is thrown,
One too may the 'many' in that place perceive;
Just as attire may be as one thing known,
Its life rests in colour, shape and weave.
[2:23]
SOLVE!
Dissolution of all congresses,
No being has permanence beyond a moment,
And into potential soon regresses.
Impermanence does pervade all reality,
Thus know in a moment nothing now here will still be,
Division is naught and joy is all that's perceived,
In this ever-changing waking cosmic seed-dream.
[3:38]
See the stars alive tonight,
Set against eternal twilight:
Each one made of many parts,
The lesser swarm a central heart.
[4:18]
Here unto you this power is bestowed:
You may dissolve any 'one' which your mind knows.
For any one pool comes from many streams' flows,
And does not exist from its own side, alone.
Therefore you may reduce anything here,
To a sum of not-that-things, overlaid with idea,
And by its reverse, manifest aught to appear,
I beseech thee, hold this knowledge dear.
[4:40]
Hear me, and make all spirits subject to me:
So that every Spirit of firmament and those which on Earth be,
On dry land and in waters, flowing free:
Of whirling Air, and of rushing fire: O' God may be obedient unto me.
Hear me, and make all spirits subject to be:
Commanded, whether above or below, from the simplest of my decrees,
Then I shall know that God is obedient unto me.
[6:05]
Drawing together, as fireflies by lantern-light,
Do monads and monads form monad alone,
Aggregated points, yet one star in the night,
Shines brightly o'erhead from its firmament's throne,
Comes this apart now; still one one be there,
Yet emptiness visits, as it has failed to ne'er,
Thus whorls of the many dance rings around its heart,
And reveal it as a sum of parts.
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Zosimos the Alchemist
04:32
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[0:50]
O' must you know it is so: a single one of composite parts,
Unentangled, reassembled firmly round a fiery heart,
Is then elevated in its nature; celebrated statehood.
The Spagyric method may plant matter raise this way: through steam beget essential oils,
Fermentation brings forth then the alcohol as cauldron boils,
Burn and filter residue for salt - the work is through.
[1:13]
Oils art sulphur, bridging the chasm,
Between the mercury-spirit and the salt-matter-microcosm,
The fire, the air, and the earthly waters,
Reconstructed form reformed,
Harmony in the Sun's domain,
With no night nor day;
No death nor decay;
No sacred, no profane,
In The Name.
[2:12]
Mineral work begins by menstruum to bring forth the Chemical Spawn,
Made by wine-stone, Alkahest of Tartar's foulness overpowers,
Extractions then of oils of gold and antimony should then be performed,
Philosophical mercury plentiful too; and Radical Vinegar, potently sour.
[2:40]
"In Antimony are Mercury (in the regulus), Sulfur (in the redness) and Salt (in the black
earth which sinks to the bottom), which three, corrected, separated, and finally united
together in the proper manner of Art so that fixation be obtained without poison, give an
opportunity to the artificer to approach the Stone of Fire."
— Isaac Newton
[3:06]
Now shall we witness this wedding,
Between bride and groom; the bride's night-time bedding,
And child which from her womb she doth now be shedding,
Golden Masculine and mercurial Feminine.
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[1:02]
Oh, Mother of mine, source divine, nurturing cradle of all,
I am no longer thine; here in time is where thy worship falls,
As the law is for all, Father this way cometh now,
Adhere to and know cosmic rules, and fortune be endowed.
[1:18]
And so He begets from his breast, in golden armaments dressed,
One who will bear the Message.
Thoth, or Hermes, to our age he begets,
To plant the seed for our success.
[1:30]
"Know that there will come a time,
That though all men have honoured the Deity with whole hearts and minds,
It shall be all in vain,
And none shall know the Holy Name.
All our Holy worship shall have been bootless and ineffectual,
And study of our texts? Exercises by intellectuals.
To thee, holy Nile, I foretell,
With blood shall your banks forever swell."
[2:51]
So be we planters for seeds of enquiry,
Alchemy schews the way to matter's foundry,
Medicine be how be cured all maladies,
Astrology of the spheres hears harmony,
Seek now the truth in these matters, and all things,
Will come to you, carried on Hermes' wings,
Greatest of priests, philosophers and kings,
Enlightening with the knowledge it brings.
[3:14]
“He can be surprised by an anomaly -like a white raven- which confounds all the books;
and all his experience, everything he has learned at the sickbed, is suddenly gone.
Therefore study each day without respite, investigate and observe diligently; despise nothing, and do not lightly put too much trust in yourself. Do not be arrogant.”
– Paracelsus
[7:00]
"Nay, it should rather be said that the whole Kosmos dwells in this our land as in its sanctuary.
And yet, since it is fitting that wise men should have knowledge of all events before they come to pass, you must not be left in ignorance of this: there will come a time when it will be seen that in vain have the Egyptians honored the deity with heartfelt piety and assiduous service; and all our holy worship will be found bootless and ineffectual.
For the gods will return from earth to heaven; Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities. Do you weep at this, Asclepius? There is worse to come; Egypt herself will have yet more to suffer."
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Air Fire Water Earth
06:54
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[0:42]
O', come now - hear incantations performed,
About a symbolized system of systems on how reality's formed,
Indulge this thought, be not forlorn and do not scorn:
We detail how and why it is all things are born.
A metaphorical quadrapartite division arises in all things,
That above; that below; that imprinted; that which imprints;
Hear first of that group which is Air, the flowing winds,
Domain of monadic concept; of its bestowals, I shall sing.
All things which be possess a finite boundary,
Within which, they are, and without they do not be,
But even if they are not formed yet manifestly,
A depository must be, wherein that information be.
Fire is the next domain, the burning stars above,
Where concepts of the Air do unite in an act of love,
Forming there all potential systems that they could,
Which cascade down - become formed things - just as they always would.
[1:42]
Air be the design,
Fire be the seal,
Now of the pressing and the wax,
I shall reveal.
[3:04]
Water, the whirling pools, the systems interact,
Their relation is potential knowledge - from this arises fact,
These systems are but forming yet within related acts,
Which shape each other endlessly, but themselves remain intact.
[4:22]
Earth is a formed form, related relation,
Fragmented below abyss, these shards are our creation.
[4:31]
But all here is from the realm of idea,
Though we dwell on dry Earth, the lighter Air sustains us here.
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The Hero of Megiddo
02:46
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Metempsychosis
08:27
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If man inhabits the supreme plane -
That is, being abstract and physical -
Then the 'self' itself cannot dwell
In the world of matter.
If the self is defined by the abstract,
Then death leaves the soul intact.
Hypothetically,
The same abstract form in another could be.
When a man's eyes close for the last time,
His self crosses over the demarcating line,
Between the higher and lower planes;
A self non-comprehending, without a brain.
The "soul" is the character -
All parts of the self nondependent on matter.
Independently,
It exists - unconstrained, free.
It can occupy
A space in the world - the human mind.
But wholly indistinguishable
From another, identical.
Thus, when we die
Our souls can go on to create new life;
The qualities that made the "you"
Can exist in others too.
So take solace in truth:
Your death is not the end of you.
The body is of lesser form,
It shall decay as you live on.
Know that you connect not just,
In time and space but up above,
Too, with all who have displayed,
The neural patterns of your brain.
Know, too, death is not the end,
Just as the soul never began,
Take solace in these words, here sung,
And know that, O, ye shall live on.
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