Part 5. Initiation to the Self. The beginning of the New Dawning. The Last Memories of Arcadia. The Beginning of Humanity.
99 Humanity; Pralaya; Milied; Quetzalcoatl; Hanut tal-gilda (Leather Shop); It-talba ta' Gaia (Gaia's prayer); one word; Sephiroth - Tales of a Long Lost Land; Bacchus laughs too loud; Ode to Sekhmet
One
thing we
all know for
sure: every man
and every woman is a star. Deep inside your
deepest soul of souls, inside the Abyss
of fire, lies your Temple of the
Gods, your Ancient Crystal
City, the place where the Sun is
born. And where darkness is another
form of light. See your own light shine. Be
blessed! Thou art
Goddess.
I God.
!
Krita Yuga
Arcadia, Eden, Atlantis -
Call it what you want,
The world is shining in its
inner brilliance.Treta Yuga
We began knowing
the Truth, but we know
it isn't true.Dwapara Yuga
The first fights
the first breaks.Kali Yuga
The Truth is finally known
shedding light on darkness...
the clouds gather above.PRALAYA
Vishnu sleeps in the darkness
of the Abyss. We know.
A shining lotus springs from
the sleeping God's navel.***Om Nama Narayana***
|
Gaia's
prayer Read my fortune! |
One word,
one single word or
a touch, might at
times bring me
back home, in
that place where
I lived happily
so many years
ago.one foot in Tipharet
one foot in the air
one foot in the air
two feet in the darkness
thus begins my journey
as the fool who has
no number and whose
number is the most
arcane, one glimpse
of wisdom one
glimpse of understanding
has pushed me off
the precipice and
now i wade in i
in knowledge in darkness
in the Abyss. in i.the road to Kether is long.
the road to myself
i hear ancient
hymns from the
land of the sun,
from Vrindavan
and Arcady, sacred
names come unto me -
"io pan io pan
io pan pan o pan
do as thou wilt
as a great god can"and I am left
with memories of
a promised land
left wading in i.
Bacchus laughs in cemetries they say -
it doesn't sound too bad
till you realize that
death is all around you,
and you are shaken to the roots,
the fragile roots which keep us
earthed to solidity
where one slight push
may send you whirling
in the darkness
whirling
in idontknowwhere...Bacchus - you laugh too loud
for one shaken at the roots -
one star less shines in heaven.
In the murky waters
a hippo wades,
a caricature of nature.
The rhino gets angry at himself
while the hyenas laugh like idiots,
in a coward manner surrounding
a buffallo, ten to one, and one is dead.But in the savannah there shines
a wild light
like a secondary sun sleeps the lion,
sleeps the daughter of Ra, Sekhmet.
The lion sleeps - a massive fire potential
in her
a strength that kills
higher strengths
and image of the sun.99 - Humanity is a very strange poem. The phrase "every man and every woman is a star" is taken from Aliester Crowley's The Book of the Law. It was for a lot of time the only thing I ever knew by Crowley, and thinking too much about it made me write this poem. I don't think I understood my own writing completely though, since each time I read this poem, new meanings come into my mind.
Pralaya is a poem which links the cycles in my life with the universal cycles according to Indian philosophers. They believe in four ages or yugas, whose Sanskrit names head each new stanza, each one progressively with an increasing amount of corruption. We're in the fourth right now... makes you wonder if they may be really right. At the end of the four yugas, there is a period of rest called pralaya where Vishnu sleeps on the Universal Ocean and from his navel Brahma (Narayan) springs up in a shining lotus. Brahma is the Creator, and thus it is befitting to end the poem with the expectation of a new creation.
Milied is a reflection on the way religion is given more importance than it's meaning. We're all missing the point of faith, and we have been doing this since the beginning of time. The corn (not the edible variety) and vetch are two plants traditionally grown in Christmas in Malta to decorate small statues of the Baby Jesus.
Quetzalcoatl was a legendary king who once ruled the Aztecs. He banned human sacrifice amongst other things, and his age was an idyllic one. But his evil twin brother Tezcatlipoca lured the people into reverting to their old bloody religion, and thus Quetzalcoatl abdicated, till he reached the sea, where a serpentine raft carried him outwards into the ocean, where he burnt till he joined the Sun, his divine father.
Hanut tal-Gilda is a personal protest against leather goods, which are, essentially, a carcass. Gaia's prayer is also an environmental poem. I don't remember what one word... was about. **giggle**
Sephiroth are the ten spheres of existence in Kaballah. Tiphereth is the sphere of balance, which I personally equate with the idyllic life... to step ahead of Tiphereth though, is to step into the Abyss. Bacchus laughs to loud is for an acquaintance of mine whose death at 19 really shocked me and all my schoolmates. Ode to Sekhmet is the only time I found my father's nature programs inspiring. Sekhmet is the lion goddess of Egypt.
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