14 September (Mars) Liber VII, 1:25-32
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25. I based all on one, one on naught.
26. Afloat in the æther, O my God, my God!
27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!
28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.
29. O ever-weeping One!
30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so may I be!
31. There thought; and thought is evil.
32. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough. -
Or a good sneeze
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**27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!
28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.
29. O ever-weeping One!
30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so may I be!
31. There thought; and thought is evil.
**Just a very odd association that probably means nothing. But it is hard for me to consider these lines without thinking about Oedipus Rex.
All this talk of eyes and incest, and being given over to Typhon (blindness or curse; the condition of being an outcast or pariah?). If Horus were to have incest it would have to be with his mother, no?
And the relationship of thought to knowledge.
Bah, maybe the reference is just cleverness on the part of my brain. Still, when Oedipus finally saw the truth it destroyed him; and we get the sexual innuendo as well...
Love and Will
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@Alrah said
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@RobertAllen said
"And the relationship of thought to knowledge."Is that the same relationship as understanding has to knowledge?"
As is often cited on this forum, knowledge can mean sexual relation—having sex, but in my post it dose more work because when Oedipus sees (appreciates, understands?) that he has been screwing his mother, this thought is in fact the true nature of his sexual relations...
It's an undoing moment—and such an interesting gesture on the part of the myth, and of Sophocles: the moment he really sees things as they are he blinds himself, as if these two things were necessary parts of a single experience!
oooh, it's all twisty...
EDIT: more thoughts and more evil!
Nature hides the truth in the text, and in the play, when Jocasta realizes the truth, before Oedipus, she attempts to shield Oedipus from the facts—the motherly, protective instincts coming to the fore! As if to say, at some point nature will shield us from the facts, from that unwavering, brilliant sun of glory. And so: cut off these eyelids!
Love and Will
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"27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!
- Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye."
We don't know when we're going to check out but it's gonna happen. In this context, I feel like whoever is speaking is saying "I wanna know when. I wanna know when it's time and when I'm going to be fully united with you."
"31. There thought; and thought is evil."
Where there is thought there is a thinker. a Thing. As opposed to no-thing. Thought's more than evil. Its's blasphemous even. In this case at least.
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Q: Is the idea that "thought is evil" very Master of Temple?
Seems a bit low brow to me.
Why, in this context, is that valid? -
I think what we're seeing here is the 7=4 in the process of becoming Magister. He's fighting his way out of Ruach confinement by demonizing it (among other things).
In the course of that process, the intellect is certainly the enemy - the nemesis, in the pure sense of the word.
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Trying to break the horse before he can ride it where he Will... so to speak ?!
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@Tinman said
"Trying to break the horse before he can ride it where he Will... so to speak ?!"
Well... there remains the question of whether the Adept is the rider or the horse.
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Both! Neither? If the Will(s) Are 1 - the question dwindles to meaningless