5 July (Water) Liber LXV, 3:55-56
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55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire!
56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. -
55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire!
56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life.Sometimes persistence is the key, and this text has been persistent. There is a rule in theater: repeating something four times is funny, while five is too much and three is not quite enough. I'm not saying the passage is funny, just that it is enough for me, finally. It's a summing up of all that has come before: this is the bitter water that becometh sweet.
It's impressive actually—it has impressed itself on me.
Still, the identification of this with Adonai, while emotionally moving on one level, leaves me wondering what this simple equation implies. I'm not too worried about this confusion though, rather it feels like it is purposefully vague, allowing me some wiggle room to find out for myself in the fullness of time—within the hour?
Till then, I too follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me.
Love and Will
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Salmon
You ever see how ugly these "alright" looking fish become - what they mutate into when fighting their way upstream against the current to get back home.
Everything about these passages says Salmon... and Binah to me.
The golden one = Charioteer... which makes me wonder if the Ten Stars of Assiah on the charioteer's armour aren't Sapphires... hmmmm....
The Waters beyond Death and beyond Life -> passing through the Lovers card into Binah.
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Just on a note of interest....I've been dreaming a lot with water lately.
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Ok I had a basic thought but I had to clarify that thought.
dictionary.reference.com/browse/unto
un•to
"unto pronunciation"
–preposition- to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- until; till
World English Dictionary
unto (ˈʌntuː)
— prep
www.thefreedictionary.com/unto
un•to ( n t )
prep.- To.
- Until: a fast unto death.
- By: a place unto itself, quite unlike its surroundings.
When I looked up Waters of Maim I got the following sites
The first two here may relate to Maim but do not seem to mention Maim but I am sure that many could use this information
www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/elohim.html
www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/shamaim.htmlThis one only mentions that Maim Haim means ‘Living Waters’ in the first paragraph below the picture.
www.jta.org/news/article/2009/06/18/1005984/mass-converts-pose-dilemma-for-latin-american-jewsIn this site I found the following reference to Maim (water/s)
www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Neugroschel1/jn-shtetl-tr.html
“AND GOD SAID LET THE HEAVENS GROW STRONG. On that first day, the heavens were weak. So God shouted at them. The second day, they grew strong from God's shout.
AMID THE WATERS: The heavens (SHOMAIM) made a separation in the waters (MAIM), for above the heavens there are waters just like on the earth. And the waters are as high above the heavens as the heavens are far from the earth. And the waters above the heavens hang in the air by God's bidding.”Now the reason for clarification is because of the word “unto”
" 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. "
Hey Tinman... I liked that. I did most of my research before I started typing this post. I was trying to figure out some way to explain the crossover when I read your post. I feel it was not a fight upstream though, but instead it was a fight to not become a part of the stream.
I think the word unto boggled me as it seems to sound like a misnomer in this sentence.
The first thing I wanted to do was use each word like “to water”, “till water” and “by water”. In this instance the word “by” seems to be the best fit as if to say “I pass by the waters beyond death and the waters beyond life” BUT the word “By” does have it drawback as it does not fully show the difference that is expressed in the word “Unto”.
If he had of said onto, then that would have been like taking a ride, but the word unto seems to be different as it is like with. It is like using or traveling with the waters beyond death and the waters beyond life.
If you feel this understanding is right then his fight was a dual fight. Not only was he not trying to become part of the water of death, but he was trying not to be part of the water of life. It is as if he knew that if he joined either one, than when they reach the final water he would not be able to enjoy the final water, unless it was as death or life, but nat as himslef. In order to enjoy the final water he could not be death or life.
I think I have reached the point of infinite questions.
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The Salmon hit me like this:
A Salmon is swimming up stream, fighting the current. All the while changes are happening in that Salmon - profound biological changes that are much more deeply rooted in that Salmon's fishy-being than it's Salmon-Ego (let's call him Fred). Something in that Salmon being told that Salmon it's home hunting time, and the only home that would do was the one that Fred would have to battle for his life to get to. Fred, the ego didn't plan this, but something deep inside Fred is managing Fred along an invisible path. The invisible path can be imagined to be "the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life" since once may imagine this river sweeping back past Fred's birth and including his parents, etc., and out past Fred's death.
Note if Fred was a feisty Ego-centric Fish, he may have fought against his instinct. Bitter Waters. But once he gives into the "infinite", the bitter becomes sweet - the world of the waters of Maim (Mem?).
Course that's just what came to me yesterday... today the picture show in my head shows me something different:
A young boy is told to respect his elders and older woman he is told to call Ma'am. He must listen to the big people and he is bitter about it. But one day he grows up and those older ladies he called Ma'am are now starting to look pretty sweet. Oh love how beautiful and bitter you can be. But I would follow you, Love, against all obstacles to dwell in the sweet floating bliss of a post climax kiss.