The Vision and the Voice

THE VISION AND THE VOICE from without by the earthquakes of his judgement. They have set their affections upon the earth, and they have stamped with their feet upon the earth, and cried: It moveth not. Therefore hath earth opened with strong motion, like the sea, and swallowed them. Yea, she hath opened her womb to them that lusted after her, and she hath closed herself upon them. There lie they in torment, until by her quaking the earth is shattered like brittle glass, and dissolved like salt in the waters of his mercy, so that they are cast upon the air to be blown about therein, like seeds that shall take root in the earth; yet turn they their affections upward to the sun. But thou, be thou eager and vigilant, performing punctually the rule. Is it not written, “Change not so much as the style of a letter”? Depart therefore, for the Vision of the Voice of the ninth Aethyr that is called ZIP is passed. Then I threw back myself into my body by my will. Bou-SAapa. Dec. 7th, 1909. 9.30-11.10 p.m. Tue Cry OF THE 8TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZID There appears in the stone a tiny spark of light. It grows a little, and seems almost to go out, and grows again, and it is blown about the Aethyr, and by the wind that blows it is it fanned, and now it gathers strength, and darts like a snake or a sword, and now it steadies itself, and is like a Pyramid of light that filleth the whole Aethyr. And in the Pyramid is one like unto an Angel, yet at the same time he zs the Pyramid, and he hath no form because he is of the substance of light, and he taketh not form upon him, 109