January 4 (Hadit) Liber L., Cap. II, v. 66-68
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**66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none.
67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!
68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep — die!
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Ecstasy and surrender – to a degree that I can hardly touch on. I gather from this the direction to live life with an intensity and urge that requires an equal amount of strength to maintain it at the peril of swooning and losing consciousness of it. Life in a ongoing climax. Very poetic and beautiful.