3 December (Nuit) Liber CCXX, 1:52-53
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52. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!
53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth -
@CCXX said
"52. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!"
The last verse concluded that every love and every other pleasure is permitted and encouraged if it be but unto Nuit, an act holy and devoted. The present verse discusses the consequences if this is not so. These are self-inflicting penalties, the purest karma, and are labeled as the "direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit."
I have no idea what "space-marks" are. They appear to refer to perceptions of duality. The essential thing is that "the ritual" - any act soever - be ever unto Nuit.
Therefore, as today's primary act of devotion to the Angel, I especially focus on this instruction in persistent mindfulness.
"53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!"
This attitude - this sanctification of enjoyment - is said to be the regeneration of the world; and, indeed, it may eventually do this. But the magnitude of the social changes necessary seem overwhelming. The gain is centuries away. In the meantime, the best we can do is for each person individually to make this commitment.
And, on inspection, we find that this may have been the intent all along. The words "little world" are literal for microcosm. It is not (it would seem) this planet, but each microcosm that Nuit references as her "sister." Whether the physical body is meant, or the psyche, it is the microcosm’s regeneration which is here intended and described.
Seen through this window, the foregoing verses on the sanctification of pleasure through directed mindfulness provide the technical regenerative method of the Great Work.
This microcosm (if we here interpret correctly) is then referred to as "my heart & my tongue." In verse 6, each of us was admonished to "be... Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue," so we are on the right track with the foregoing. The doctrine taught especially in these verses 51-52 is that of Nuit's kiss - a kiss blown to a young sister, a token of deep affection.
In the last phrase, the emphasis continues to be on "to Nuit!" But now the words used are "To me!" As AC recognized from the beginning - probably a detail already in his mind when this was written - "To Me" is cognate to the Greek TO MH, "the Not" = 418. Ecstasy and the “joy of earth” are ours - but ever within the ecstasy of relationship to Neshamah or superconsciousness.
I confirm and testify that this is the lliving consequence of this practice.
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As an aside, an interesting meditation is to take a walk and mentally greet everyone you see with "Ecstacy be thine, and joy of earth!" ("Yours" instead of "thine" of course if there's more than one person.)
(As another aside, this is the ecstasy-joy leitmotif again.)
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I tend to think of a Cartesian plane at the mention of "space-marks."
"they are one" : the view of the plane as only the x-y intercept at its center, all other points derived from their relationship to (0,0)
"they are many" : the infinite number of points on the plane, whether going from (0,+Inf) on the positive x-axis or pondering the distance between (0,1) , which is also infinite.
Regardless, in both instances the plane is nothing more than a projection onto an object.
A more literally interpretation: The spaces that mark the beginning and end of each word in a sentence, each word being a number, each number being infinite - meaning that "space" does not really exist despite our perception of one between two words or the many to be found in a single sentence.
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@Uni_Verse said
"I tend to think of a Cartesian plane at the mention of "space-marks.""
This is good. Space is Choronzon's favorite poison.
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@Uni_Verse said
"I tend to think of a Cartesian plane at the mention of "space-marks."
"they are one" : the view of the plane as only the x-y intercept at its center, all other points derived from their relationship to (0,0)
"they are many" : the infinite number of points on the plane, whether going from (0,+Inf) on the positive x-axis or pondering the distance between (0,1) , which is also infinite.
Regardless, in both instances the plane is nothing more than a projection onto an object.
A more literally interpretation: The spaces that mark the beginning and end of each word in a sentence, each word being a number, each number being infinite - meaning that "space" does not really exist despite our perception of one between two words or the many to be found in a single sentence."
Yes, both. And, I like and lean on the Cartesian analogy quite a bit as well.