9 June - (Air) Liber LXV, 2:63-65

Jim Eshelman

63. Let darkness cover up the writing! Let the scribe depart among his ways.
64. But thou and I are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he?
65. O Thou beloved One! is there not an end? Nay, but there is an end. Awake! arise! gird up thy limbs, O thou runner; bear thou the Word unto the mighty cities, yea, unto the mighty cities.

Mike

@Jim Eshelman said

"**63. Let darkness cover up the writing! Let the scribe depart among his ways.

But thou and I are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he?
O Thou beloved One! is there not an end? Nay, but there is an end. Awake! arise! gird up thy limbs, O thou runner; bear thou the Word unto the mighty cities, yea, unto the mighty cities.**"

Verse 63 is something that rings true with me; after making contact with something higher and receiving some small bit of illumination, the Ruach tends to "lose" that illumination, as though the words are still there but the Spirit has left them. I note too that the verse says "among his ways" - definitely plural, "the many."

What are the "mighty cities?" Clearly the Ruach is the runner, and is told, more or less, to fortify itself to prepare to bear the Word "unto the mighty cities," whatever that means.

Cities suggests Chesed imagery to me, but I don't think that that means too much.

(Water comes next, right? I can't wait!)

93, 93/93.

Tinman

63-64 are the last thoughts of someone falling asleep after a good acid trip.
65 is that person's first thoughts upon waking up the next day, ready to bring "the message" to "the people".

RobertAllen

63. Let darkness cover up the writing! Let the scribe depart among his ways.
64. But thou and I are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he?
65. O Thou beloved One! is there not an end? Nay, but there is an end. Awake! arise! gird up thy limbs, O thou runner; bear thou the Word unto the mighty cities, yea, unto the mighty cities.

This draught that you distill in the east is mostly left behind, barely contained is a tenuous notion or concept. Like a balloon this concept is stretched to the bursting point. Carefully it is laid aside because, should it break, which is a real possibility, most of this 'lemon infused water' would be lost. What you bring back are just so much as you can carry and fit into a few odd containers that you make use of because they are handy—more durable, but less appropriate. The spent grain is sprinkled on the floor, so that some virtue, residual and scarce, might find its way even to the earth. Each step of the way a price is paid, a translation downwards, where the initial intensity of the fruit is lost—lost, until the tart fresh character is only rumored at. Still, you manage to bring something back! Your intent is to mix this with chilled vodka, get a little drunk, and allow the clean character of the citrus to dominate your senses for a short time, and ease your spirit.

In this way the One is a rumor even in the mighty cities of the Kingdom—the beginning and the end, the one and the ten—Kether in Malkuth as well as its reverse...

Love and Will

Al-Shariyf

"Your intent is to mix this with chilled vodka, get a little drunk, and allow the clean character of the citrus to dominate your senses for a short time, and ease your spirit. "

Very well said as per usual

Zoasa

" 63. Let darkness cover up the writing! "

This seems to speak to me two ways

When a person reads something, he is soon to forget it.
When a person accepts the writing and it agrees with him then the blackness may be considered him (or “not”) which covers the writings.

" Let the scribe depart among his ways. "

Which way? The way of writing or the way of reason? Seems to be the ruach to me.

" 64. But thou and I are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he? "

This appears to be acceptance which seems to be beyond the ruach.

" 65. O Thou beloved One! is there not an end? Nay, but there is an end. "

Do you not see that you have been waiting at the end of your dream?

" Awake! arise! gird up thy limbs, O thou runner; bear thou the Word unto the mighty cities, yea, unto the mighty cities. "
“Awake” (shakes self), “Arise” (get up sleeping beauty), “gird up your limbs” (prepare yourself)

“O though runner” eludes my interpretation
The word “Bear” eludes me also, as it has several understandings.
www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/bear.htm