dew all lose their
identity.
And
therefore
this Cup
is
in
the
hand
of
BABALON,
the Lady of the City of the Pyramids,
wherein
no one can
be distinguished
from any other, wherein
no one may sit until
he has lost
his name.
Of that which
is in the Cup it is also said that it is wine.
This
is the
Cup of Intoxication.
Intoxication
means
poisoning,
and
in
particular
refers to the poison
in which
arrows
are dipped
(Greek
ro^or, " a bow ").
Think of the Vision of the Arrow in Liber 418, and look at the passages
in
the Holy Books which
speak
of the
action
of the
spirit
under
the
figure of a deadly
poison.
For to each
individual
thing
attainment
means first
and
foremost
the destruction
of the individuality.
Each of our ideas must
be made to give up
the Self
to
the Beloved,
so that we may eventually
give up the Self to the Beloved
in our turn.
It will be remembered
in the History Lection ^how the Adepts
"who
had with
smiling
faces
abandoned
their homes and their possessions —
could
with steady calm
and
firm
correctness
abandon
the Great Work
itself;
for this
is the last and greatest projection
of the Alchemist."
The
Master
of the Temple
has
crossed
the Abyss,
has entered
the
Palace of the King's Daughter;
he has
only to
utter
one word, and all
' Liber LXI,
the
book
given
to
those
who
wish
to
become
Probationers
of
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