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,
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