03/22/17 - RESH, The Sun, Sun
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Incantations of the beloved bearing solar mien, "one rosy dream of gold." Yearning for intimacy and absorption like Bacchus gestating in Jupiter's thigh. Maenadian ecstasies, incantations of Iacchus (Bacchus/Dionysus), speaking in tongues, and the god aflame until "All is burning," charged and electric.
"The World of the Word awaits us." "Verbum fit Verbum" Verbum = Logos = Word. But "fit" could be active or passive--so either, "The Word becomes the Word," or "The Word makes the Word." By transitive property, I supposed it doesn't matter. "Be done with speech." Verbum and Vitriol and VVVVV, then strange glyphs of the elements.
The uninitiated aim to capture the shining God in symbolic acts and dreadful curses. The adept adores far more seductively.
N.B. - Liber VII, with commentary, is available here.
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'Then was the countenance of all time darkened, and the true light shone forth. '
Disclaimer - this may be not what the above means at all - it's just a result of a meditation.
In a Advaita talk today I heard the New Aeon idea, the Sun shining on the other side of the world - the continuity of existence - as a metaphor for the ego mind (ruach) which is unaware of the greater reality behind it yet the light is shining always through even in the darkest hour of the soul
In my experience during meditation I see that the very thoughts themselves, even if they be of absolute negativity and despair are actually wonders of the source , they show the source if we take ourselves out of the equation.
For instance -
'He who knows the Tao knows it to be the source of all things soever; the most exalted spiritual ecstasy and the most trivial internal impression are from our point of view equally illusions, worthless masks, which hide, with grotesque painted pasteboard false and lifeless, the living face of truth. Yet, from another point of view, they are equally expressions of the ecstatic genius of truth – natural images of the reaction between the essence of onesself and one's particular environment at the moment of their occurrence. 'The sun is shining at all times, stop treating thoughts as objects to be scorned or desired (yet still ye drink!) and as spontaneous rays of falsehood made of pure truth!
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The morning after,
Our ship rounded past the moon
And glimpsed the sunOur sadness is over
With vigor we embrace
The dawnWe throw ourselves into life
Eat our red meat with gusto
And drinking golden hot tea with delight
