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It is easy
to see when water is muddy,
and easy to get rid of the mud;
but there are many impurities
which
defy everything
but distillation and
even some which
must be fractionated
unto
70 times
7.
There is, however,
a universal
solvent
and harmonizer,
a certain dew which
is so pure that a single drop ot it cast
into the water of the Cup will for the time being bring all to
perfection.
This dew is called Love.
Even
as in the case
of human
love, the whole Universe
appears perfect to the man who is
under its control,
so is it, and much
more, with the Divine
Love of which it is now spoken.
For human
love is an excitement,
and not
a stilling,
of the mind; and
as
it
is bound to
the individual, only
leads
to
greater
trouble
in
the
end.
This Divine Love,
on the contrary,
is attached
to no symbol.
It
abhors
Hmitation,
either
in
its
intensity
or its scope.
And this is
the dew of the stars of which
it is spoken
in the Holy Books, for NUIT
the Lady of the Stars is called "the Continuous
One
of Heaven," and
it is that Dew
which
bathes the body of the Adept " in a sweet-smelling
perfume
of sweat."'
^
In this cup, therefore,
though
all
things
are placed,
by virtue
of this
^ See Liber Legis.
Equinox VIT.