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1. Ah! my Lord Adonai, that dalliest with the Magister
in the Treasure-House of Pearls, let me listen to the echo of
your kisses.
2. Is not the starry heaven shaken as a leaf at the tremu-
lous rapture of your love? Am not I the flying spark of light
whirled away by the great wind of your perfection?
3. Yea, cried the Holy One, and from Thy spark will I the
Lord kindle a great light; I will burn through the great city
in the old and desolate land; I will cleanse it from its great
impurity.
4. And thou, O prophet, shalt see these things, and thou
shalt heed them not.
5. Now is the Pillar established in the Void; now is Asi
fulfilled of Asar; now is Hoor let down into the Animal Soul
of Things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of
the earth.
6. Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my
conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall
find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall
worship thee.
7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around
thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto
them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride,
and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this
shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with some-
what that hath noname. For it is as the abyss of the Arca-
num that is opened in the secret Place of Silence.
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