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Konx Om Pax
Konx Om Pax (1907), PDF p. 23
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THE WAKE WORLD
Y name is Lola, because I am the Key of Delights,
and the
other children
in my dream call me Lola Daydream.
When I
am awake, you see, I know that I am dreaming, so that they must be
very silly children, don’t you think?
There
are
people in the dream,
too,
who are quite grown
up and horrid;
but the
really important
thing is the wake-up person.
There is only one, for there never could
be any one
like him.
I call him my Fairy Prince.
He rides a horse
with beautiful wings
like
a swan, or sometimes a strange
creature
like
a lion or a bull, with
a woman’s face and breasts, and she has
unfathomable eyes.
My Fairy Prince
is a dark boy, very comely; I think every one must
love him, and yet every one is afraid.
He looks through one just as if
one had no clothes on in the Garden of God, and he had made one,
and one could do nothing except
in the mirror of his mind.
He never
laughs or frowns or smiles;
because,
whatever he sees, he sees what is
beyond
as well, and
so nothing
ever happens.
His mouth is redder
than any roses you ever saw.
I wake up quite when we kiss each other,
and there is no dream any more.
But when it is not trembling on mine,
I see kisses on his lips, as if he were kissing
some one that one could
not see.
Now you must know that my Fairy Prince
is my lover, and one day
he will come for good and ride away with me and marry me.
I shan’t
tell you his name because
it is too beautiful.
It is a great secret
be~
tween
us.
When we were
engaged he gave me such a beautiful ring.
Virgo Mundi
Adonai
Pegasus
Sphinx
V.V.V.V.V.
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