July 23 (Fire) Liber LXV, Cap. IV, v. 26-27
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**26. My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilderness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Himself as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body.
27. I am like a love-sick courtesan of Corinth. I have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. To-day I am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love?
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A little Apocalyptic and brings to mind the Aeon card. I'll be giving in to the temptation of looking up this one in the commentary. As always, a bit cryptic, and this one is a bit tough. Mostly I get an impression of the "end of days" so to speak, which of course, is also a beginning.
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"26. My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilderness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Himself as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body.
"Kephra, imagery of "the jackals of Day and Night", the Towers of the Universe with guardians - all point to the Path of Qoph, which connects Netzach (Fire) and Malkuth.
Adept understands the core (heart) of herself/himself as a vehicle for the Divine, a channel that makes possible for God to manifest in the realm of basic psycho-biological processes of existence. What is changed and illuminated is not only Ruach, but also Nephesh. The patterns of the personal subconscious with all its related biological processes and the physical body of the Adept are "set aflame", charged and transformed through conscious love-relationship between the Adept and the Angel.
(consider hormone-working, eating and sleeping patterns, rhythms of sexual arousal, etc)"27. I am like a love-sick courtesan of Corinth. I have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. To-day I am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love?"
Personal "magnetism" connected to sexuality is made conscious. Adept is no longer a "slave" of desire (with energy enclosed in endless circles of yearning and gratification); she/he now understands how this also and primarily functions in service of the Divine. Once this experience settles in, there is no "going back" to previous unconscious (perhaps compulsory) patterns of sexual-emotional behavior.