| APART, immutable, unseen, | |
| Being, before itself had been, | |
| Became. Like dew a triple queen | |
| Shone as the void uncovered: | |
| The silence of deep height was drawn | 5 |
| A veil across the silver dawn | |
| On holy wings that hovered. 1 | |
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| The music of three thoughts became | |
| The beauty, that is one white flame, | |
| The justice that surpasses shame, | 10 |
| The victory, the splendour, | |
| The sacred fountain that is whirled | |
| From depths beyond that older world | |
| A new world to engender. 2 | |
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| The kingdom is extended. 3 Night | 15 |
| Dwells, and I contemplate the sight | |
| That is not seeing, but the light | |
| That secretly is kindled, | |
| Though oft-time its most holy fire | |
| Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire | 20 |
| Before desire has dwindled. | |
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| I see the thin web binding me | |
| With thirteen cords of unity 4 | |
| Toward the calm centre of the sea. | |
| (O thou supernal mother! 5) | 25 |
| The triple light my path divides | |
| To twain and fifty sudden sides 6 | |
| Each perfect as each other. | |
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| Now backwards, inwards still my mind | |
| Must track the intangible and blind, | 30 |
| And seeking, shall securely find | |
| Hidden in secret places | |
| Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, | |
| New life for many mystic lives, | |
| And strange new forms and faces. | 35 |
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| My mind still searches, and attains | |
| By many days and many pains | |
| To That which Is and Was and reigns | |
| Shadowed in four and ten; 7 | |
| And loses self in sacred lands, | 40 |
| And cries and quickens, and understands | |
| Beyond the first Amen. 8 | |
| Note 1. A qabalistic description of Macroprosopus. ‘Dew,’ ‘Deep Height,’ &c., are his titles. [back] |
| Note 2. Microprosopus. [back] |
| Note 3. Malkuth, the Bride. In its darkness the Light may yet be found. [back] |
| Note 4. The Hebrew characters composing the name Achd, Unity, add up to 13. [back] |
| Note 5. Binah, the Great Deep: the offended Mother who shall be reconciled to her daughter by Bn, the Son. [back] |
| Note 6. Bn adds to 52. [back] |
| Note 7. Jehovah, the name of 4 letters, 1+2+3+4=10. [back] |
| Note 8. The first Amen is = 91 or 7 x 13. The second is the Inscrutable Amoun. [back] |
