THE VISION AND THE VOICE
its path? Iam Destiny. Dost thou think to control me? for
who can move my course?”
And there falleth a thunderbolt therein: a catastrophe of
explosion: and all is shattered. And I saw above me a Vast
Arm reach down, dark and terrible, and a voice cried: I AM
ETERNITY.
And a great mingled cry arose: “No! no! no! All is
changed; all is confounded; naught is ordered: the white is
stained with blood: the black is kissed of the Christ! Return!
Return! It is a new chaos that thou findest here: chaos for
thee: for us it is the skeleton of a New Truth!”
I said: Tell me this truth: for I have conjured ye by the
Mighty Names of God, the which ye cannot but obey.
The voice said:
Light is consumed as a child in the Womb of its Mother
to develop itself anew. But pain and sorrow infinite, and
darkness are invoked. For this child riseth up within his
Mother and doth crucify himself within her bosom. He
extendeth his arms in the arms of his Mother and the Light
becometh fivefold.*
Lux in Luce,
Christus in Cruce;
Deo Duce
Sempiterno.
* The LVX Cross hidden in the Svastika is probably the Arcanum here
connoted.
This Cross on Mars square adds to 65 Adonai, Shone, Gloried, ha-Yekal
HS=keep silence.
Svastika itself adds to 231=0+1+2+- -- +21, the 21 Keys. The cubical
Svastika regarded as composed of this LVX Cross and the arms has a total of
78 faces—Taro and Mezla.
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