**35. The cone is cut with an infinite ray; the curve of hyperbolic life springs into being.
36. Farther and farther we float; yet we are still. It is the chain of systems that is falling away from us.
37. First falls the silly world; the world of the old grey land.
38. Falls it unthinkably far, with its sorrowful bearded face presiding over it; it fades to silence and woe.
39. We to silence and bliss, and the face is the laughing face of Eros.
40. Smiling we greet him with the secret signs.
41. He leads us into the Inverted Palace.
42. There is the Heart of Blood, a pyramid reaching its apex down beyond the Wrong of the Beginning.
43. Bury me unto Thy Glory, O beloved, O princely lover of this harlot maiden, within the Secretest Chamber of the Palace!
44. It is done quickly; yea, the seal is set upon the vault.
45. There is one that shall avail to open it.
**

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/topic/18467/october-14-mercury-liber-vii-cap-v-v-35-45RSS for NodeTue, 14 Jul 2026 00:28:46 GMTWed, 14 Oct 2015 15:30:24 GMT60There is a visualization here and possibly a practical method of “falling” into incarnation. Then, we encounter the next guardian whom we see leads us into an Inverted Palace. Opposite as to what our expectations and regular thoughts are. Higher consciousness is characterized as being opposite lower consciousness (not in those terms I guess), but each thing contains in and of itself polar ideas. The averse details may simply point out a different perspective with which we come into a better position to truly understand existence with the reconciliation of opposites. The silent-self equilibrating the opposites may be the “one” to open this vault.

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