THE EQUINOX
63. But the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even
as my Lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. There is no
wine like unto this wine.
64. They are gathered together into a glowing heart, as
Ra that gathereth his clouds about Him at eventide into a
molten sea of Joy; and the snake that is the crown of Ra
bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-
kisses.
65. So also is the end of the book, and the Lord Adonai is
about it on all sides like a Thunderbolt, and a Pylon, and a
Snake, and a Phallus, and in the midst thereof He is like the
Woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps;
yea, the milk of the stars from her paps.
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