June 28 (Water) Liber LXV, Cap. III, v. 40-41
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**40. I am become like a luscious devil of Italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. She hath played the harlot in divers palaces; she hath given her body to the beasts.
41. She hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods.
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These verses put me onto a line of thought that resulted in the idea of living life full of an unending desire. However, reading it more closely, and something I easily could've skipped over, is that the verses speak about living life as the object of desire with a voraciousness and vulnerability that lights a fire through all parts of our being. Our Ruach is the object of desire of the Neshamah - or some other combination of the higher and lower - I think the general idea is that the "lower" aspects aspire which triggers the desire of the "higher" aspects of ourselves.
There is a sting to this willingness to give all of one' self - mind, body, soul - even our kinsfolk are poisoned with venom. I could read this in a couple of ways. One is that we poison the ideas of those we feel are close to us (resulting in them withering away in one way or another) after realizing the intimacy of the angel and our one pointedness in aspiration towards union with him/her. Also, by our presence, those that are close to us, like us culturally from our upbringing, etc. are poisoned since we are transformed and thus everyone we come into contact with is affected differently by us. In this some friction could occur in moving through life, but the idea, I think, is that this is endured while keeping focus on the beloved with whom we are the object of desire.
Just some thoughts...