Magick Without Tears

248 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS A bove, the gemme'd azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The winge'd globe, the starry blue, Are mine, 0 Ankh-afna-khonsu! (12-14) ... Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof , do ye also thus. (22) ... And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 1 (26) o Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! (27) None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (28-30) Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. (32) 1. Dictated: "the unfragmentary non-atomic fact of my universality .. . (Write this in whiter words. But go forth on)." Ouarda wrote into the MS, later, the five words as in text.