21 December (Hadit) Liber CCXX, 2:26
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(v. 92) 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.
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What a splendid Winter Solstice sentiment!
Blessings to all in this season of the Return of the Light!
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@Jim Eshelman said
"(v. 92) 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one."
In terms of worship, this verse has been so burned into my soul from my very first year in Thelema that I start babbling and bumbling when I start talking about it. It is a continuing reality, ever present, and I encourage everyone to understand what this is saying.
Once more, Hadit is described as the Serpent Kundalini, coiled and ready to spring. According to the Eastern teachings, when this "serpent power" is coiled, it is within the Muladhara chakra, which gives us at least one anatomical site for Hadit.
There is also a specific instruction concerning the distinctive results of this coiled serpent either ascending the spine or being discharged through the genitals in sexual relese. There is no indication in the Book that one or the other mode of release is “right” or “wrong,” merely a clear discussion of the differences. (This, too, is a commentary on the relationship of the right and averse pentagrams.)
I should say also that - if this verse is to be taken as definitive - we should regard only the sexual expression of the "serpent power" as having material consequence, i.e., as magically causing "rapture of earth." However, the question is slightly more complicated than that.