cian
is
blasted
by
the Thunderbolt,
and
poisoned
by the
Serpent,
at
the same time the organs whose union
is the supreme
sacrament
are left
in him.
At the coming
of Adonai
the individual is destroyed
in both
senses.
He is shattered
into
a thousand
pieces, yet at the same time
united with
the simple.'
Of this it is also spoken
by St. Paul
in
his Epistle
to
the Church
in
Thessalonica:
"For
the
Lord
shall
descend
from
Heaven,
with
a
shout, with
the
voice
of the Archangel,
and
with
the
trump
of God ;
and the dead
in
Christ
shall
rise
first.
Then we which
are
alive
and
remain
shall be caught
up together
with
them
into
the
clouds
to
meet
the Lord in the air;
and so shall we be for ever with
the Lord."
The
stupid
interpretation
of this
verse
as
prophetic
of a " second
advent " need not
concern
us ; every word
of it
is,
however,
worthy
of
profound
consideration.
"The Lord "
is
Adonai —which
is
the Hebrew for " my Lord";
and
He descends
from heaven,
the supernal
Eden, the Sahasrara Cakkra in
man, with
a
"shout,"
a
"voice,"
and
a
"trump,"
again airy symbols,
for
it
is
air that
carries
sound.
These
sounds
refer
to
those
heard by the
Adept at the moment
of rapture.
'
Compare
the first set of verses in Liber XVI.
(XVI in the Taro
is
Pc,
Mars,
the
Sword.)