May 17 (Air) Liber LXV, Cap II, v. 14-16
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**14. Then rose she up from the abyss of Ages of Sleep, and her body embraced me. Altogether I melted into her beauty and was glad.
15. The river also became the river of Amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me.
16. O serpent woman of the stars! I, even I, have fashioned Thee from a pale image of fine gold.
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The right relationship to subconsciousness, i.e., the full range of the Nefesh in substance and function.
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The Ideal starts as a projection which appears as gold, but then reveals itself as blackened by the kisses and adoration given unto it. The change was visible and he continued with his kisses and adoration. The Ideal then further transformed into a pure form of white heat, beyond black or gold. It then awoke and embraced him where they unified into a climax of the operation.
Encoded here are ideas that when reading through the verses slowly I didn't expect. I would expect the process to stop when the gold is blackened. The ordeal of finding that what you thought was the beauty of perfection was seemingly a sham certainly can throw a person off balance. Persistence and dedication reveal the truth and it does so in a dramatic fashion.
After the true nature of the ideal develops and is unveiled a union, of which I cannot speak, occurs and an identification with it leads to understanding that this is the essence of life. This union and dedication realized enlightens us as to the purpose of our life and powers the engines that thrust us across eternity.