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[Art] The Great Work (Poem)

Imastep

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Faith, begins where reason goes no further,
As order, parrelleld to conceal,
As magick is a process,
Existing within one’s own mind,
Vivid symbols and actions,
Are myths methods to convey truths.

A trained and focused will,
Within the light of entropy,
The energy across the astral,
Where many lore contain the tongue,
The connecting link, to reach beyond,
Boundaries conceived as thoughts,
Dependent on mind and matter.

The Great Work; a secret of magick,
Meaningfully, falling in love with death’s face,
Magicians of fire, the heart of science,
The ternary; a star in the microcosm,
Containing the key to all others,
Antiquity; a universal key; between,
Science and faith; reason and doctrine.

Nothing which is written is lost,
Avoid going insane, for lacking shelter and bread,
Disagree and the book agrees the word,
Magick, afoot yes, the Great Work,
Arcanum of transcendence, the raw material,
Key to all; keystones of a synthesis,
Of past, present, and future, as
Reason without science, a silent monster.

Abstract truths reveal primal revelation,
For Azoth, the final principle, the Great Work,
Descending into boxes, the serpent,
A symbol of time and of evil,
A powerful ally harnesses his chariots.

A secret, the Great Work, or;
The philosopher’s stone, perpetual movement, act
As madmen, in the secret science,
A symbol, the Rose, the Genesis,
Of blooms and thorns, a force,
Without science is nothing, such is,
The supreme law, one must be a man to enter.

Accused of madness, a being,
Is the end; to speak is to create,
As the axiom of philosophy being is being,
True without error, certain and most true,
Truth confirmed by science,
And alloys only in falsehoods of philosophy,
Absolutes reign over the infinite religion,
As the true science; Know Thyself.

Holy kingdoms, light fields,
Enlightenment by study, audacity, will,
And a nothing that can’t be corrupted,
Silence; to know, to dare, to will, to be silent,
Creators of small worlds; create thyself,
Supreme reason, an invariant principle,
Death and life relate this.

Physical laws are the millstone, you are the grain,
Silence is disposed by speech,
To plow the depths, look front and behind,
A great insult is to be called a coward,
As moral dignity, obeys natural instinct.

What is honor? A faith,
Beautifully honest to the entire world,
Disciples of abstinence, silent,
High sciences, as a cloak of existence.

The verb as the word,
Raison d'être of forms,
What is above is below, vice versa,
And matter is proportional,
And infinite, a circle without a circumference,
Throughout all space, as
The physical orders pull to the soul.

Imagination reflects an invisible world,
Mirror of visions, within forms,
With reason arises genius,
A principle of universal philosophy,
As unity is numbers, to exact proportion,
The law of universal science.
Science with madness is possession,
Gnosis, initiation; one knows nothing,
Acquainted with everything, a duality,
As a unity, multiplying itself,
A spinning square equals a circle,
Unity is yang, duality is yin.

Active principles; spread outward,
Passive principles; gather and fertilize,
As two opposing triangles create a macrocosm,
In necessity and liberty, orders and laws,
Two forces, attract and repel, in,
Equilibrium, the caduceus of physics,
As universal agents, love and wrath,
Slay the dragon, sleep in delight.

Powers in odd numbers , fixed stars,
Every-living sparks, destiny, a given order,
A chain of effects, order caused,
A magnetized world by a Sun,
Lucid wills affect astral light amassed,
As seven, magic of all in force,
A cube as a stone, eagle hidden within,
Seven colors, notes, planets and chords.

Lamps of reason, lights of science,
Full and whole-possession, walking darkness,
Supported by a staff, equals,
The living and first active cause,
Rational order, the abstract of revelations,
Sacred hidden principles, ancients days,
Reflected in images, cause and effect,
As moving father from source, less perfect,
And an old man, rifts, usurps divinity,
As reason and science dispose of harmony.

The gate, a door, astral light of the soul,
A key to influence, fixate or move,
As one acts in the same manner,
Isolation breaks a magical chain,
As absolute independence,
As the heart is total liberty, in abstinence,
Forces only command you as you treat them.

Astral light moves as a current,
A direction to manifest against destiny,
Stronger chains, is a genius who discovers real laws,
As movement is dual, madness, as great action,
Entails this equal reaction.

To mean to act, is knocking sounds,
Furniture a cause, toxication of astral light,
Movements of life, a first matter,
One which is spiritual, orders and material duality,
Separating earth from fire, a salt,
To any wisdom, thoughts skillful word,
Energy of heat and will,
As an allegory for theory, realize,
Then adapt to diversity, afterthought,
Reveals magick, as a cross, the key to heaven.

Nothing goes to heaven that isn’t from heaven,
Terrestrial and elemental, aerial and astral,
Inert or movement, is the world soul,
Astral spirits evaporate by pure incense,
As crimes take you prisoner, will and
Wish it to live, put aside reflections,
Only attract rays of light.

Phenomena of orders, travel by thought,
Magnetism, awakens people in a dream,
Nature as harmony of links, cause and effect,
Astrology, the doctrine of the seven and three,
Ten spheres, exactly calculated,
The probabilities of state, marks of stars,
As a universal medicine, lines arranged,
A destiny of the celestial spheres.

As the Sun dries, moon humidify,
Justice, mercy, fulfillment and success;
All natural things, as fates of comets,
Heroes of great change, groups as stars,
To influence man, rays of sun,
To tract to his own, reborn universes,
A souls clothe to a body, and separate,
As shooting stars searching for light,
In order to rediscovery life.

Above astral light, strengthens moral liberty,
A black stone, Azoth, the agent,
A principle of wisdom, absolutes,
Separate yet subtle from the fixed,
Domains, faith and science of the unknown,
As reason and experience, are never doubts,
Truth as a sign, fixed and volatile,
A beautiful idea, single, immutable laws,
The cube and stone, the first lights.

Laws of analogous, reborn everyday in death,
To divine, silent of the mission,
Three mixtures and one black, the Great Work,
Inverted orders destroy complete analogies,
As final words, harmony balances opposites,
Separate and united, poles and a center,
Expressions in thoughts as good and evil,
Shadows light, hidden in midst,
The lion’s in a den.

A queen is old as time,
And to fight death is to conquer life,
As accepting suffering to be free,
As the universe from from laws,
And balances works, liberty loves
And admires traverse shadows,
The earth turns, Sun’s stay,
Barriers of hierarchy to kings,
Divine masters influence all ages.

A words is free and nothing can contain it,
Light of nature, positive and negative,
Balance by spirits of order and harmony,
And madness like lighting,
To reign, be silent thunders,
To be, do, in action, never speak,
Of the Doctrine, as opposing forces.

Void’s create, in order to fill,
Like a light illuminating darkness,
As a first principle, true divinity,
Attracting and radiates, a fool or master,
Small actions provoke reactions,
As things destroy and regenerate.

Many silence oracles, the signature of ideas,
A flaming stars, rays of good and evil,
Order and disorder, a victory in death,
Upward, towards the Sun,
Demons of madness, relations of dreams,
Envelopes opened, words beyond,
Mental disorder, absolute truths,
Head of spirits star, darkness’s depths,
Verb in will, action of the word.

Electric machines scare spirits,
White and black, waters and bitterness,
Free sovereign will, dragon at foot,
Double light, living and astral fixed,
Caduceus of Genesis, magnets of
Central and eternal fires, coils of serpents,
Led astray, drives swine into the sea,
Mediums are serpents, intellectual nature,
Universal harmony of opposites,
Clever machines, not a fable.

Real danger, run to companions,
Magnetism's phenomena, invisible,
Withdrawal, or project, musical enchantments,
Derived as sleep or see,
As fixed, days of the Sun, Dimanche,
As seven mentioned, a wandering octave,
Ingenious and eternal truths.

Science has dangers, infallible madness,
Terrified imaginations, fearful thoughts,
No command or will, no great reserve,
Unworthy in science, retreat and approval,
For holy things are holy,
Sweet and calming power in anger,
Energy skillful from profit, moral orders
To oppose violence and do good.

Science in silence is intoxicating,
Sages must sometimes speak,
The elect, succeed like the small,
And mechanism occur, through,
Evidence and common sense, poetic legends,
Have silenced kings, secrets to prove,
Intelligence directions its’ synthesis,
Corrupt and pure, a sign,
Symbols, reason and the verb,
Being is being, a chain, to birth
Producing faith, into wills manifest.

Whirlpools absorb, pulls everything,
Signs in words, personal or public,
A fire like numbers, acquired on their own,
Medals miracles, creative like imaginations,
Within and without fluidic illusions,
Eloquence, connected through harmony,
Oracles of table, chosen dreams,
Proven and admitted through chains,
No book written is lost, or,
Doesn’t go where it must,
Who completes the gold?
Supreme reason and absolute justice,
Transmutation all as the many and one.
 
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