Bridal Chamber

My Self portrait.
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Holy, holy, holy,

Baptism, Eucharist, and Matrimony.

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And there before me was the sun-like Son.

He wore a crown of light

and sent down a river of fire!

Holy, holy, holy, Christ is come to Baptize:

I enter the stream; my life is washed clean;

he has lifted me up into his Presence, redeemed.

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The reverse-flowing Jordan rises up to the Sky;

my world is laid waste; my ego denied.

It flows into the mouth of the shining-like Son;

holy, holy, holy, a Eucharist now comes!

He hungers for me, to make me his feast;

swallows me whole; my life to complete.

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High inside his Church up in Heaven above

a marriage will wed us forever in love.

I enter the chamber, where two are One only;

holy, holy, holy, the mystery of inner Matrimony.

In his fusion of light, the Priest of the Son

has joined us together. Thy will is now done.

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Through three sacramental rites

I offer up my separate life.

A burnt meal of my ego sacrificed

delivers my Spirit unto Thee realized.

A priestly pronouncement has dispelled my con-fusion,

holy, holy, holy, "Let there be Union."

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Jesus as a serpent-god from bas-relief in Egypt.

This drawing was made by a member of Napoleon's army in 1798, one hundred years before the same face appeared to the world`for the first time ever' on the photograph of the Shroud of Turin.

The Serpent Christ

"I, John, asked, 'Lord, did not the serpent teach them to eat?'
The savior smiled and said, 'It was I who caused them to eat.'"
(The Apocryphon of John, NHL)
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The Serpent Christ
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The Serpent that I once in terror fled,
with my consent now reared its mighty head.
And in fulfilment of its long desire,
devoured me up into itSelf entire.
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Then for its own tail the mythic beast did yearn,
and consumed itSelf to disappear in turn.
In formlessness the spiralled Serpent shines;
the Son in SpAce has dawned upon my mind.
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And once inside the secret chamber bright,
where two are One, and tail and head unite,
sealed and cooled its fiery breath distils.
With Wine of Christ the Holy Cup is filled.
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Invoking the Gnostic Sun God, Abraxas, and the Crowning of Nature

Chnoubis, related to Abraxas.

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"But now clouds of light called Abrasax, Sablo, and Gamaliel come down and transport the chosen above the realms and rulers, and they are saved and become like angels." (The Revelation of Adam, from the Gnostic Bible).

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Born of a Serpent.

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Invoke the Christ upon the staff of spine;

call forth Abraxas by secret name divined.

Raise up the Hand that flames abright

in the seeming darkness of the Valley's night.

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The Sun to raven-black must shine;

its reversal disintegrates and endeth time.

Through this portal Spirit then can fly, and

escape the leaden gravity of the thinking mind.

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Shamanic death and extinguishment to gold

frees the Soul from lower kingdoms old.

Most return and spill their seed to earth some more,

to raise again the Serpent unto the Lion's roar.
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Many times we fall and crack the cosmic Egg,

thus time must come again and start its movement.

Travailing through twelve houses seeking blind,

search out again the Serpent-Sun who ever shines.

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And when he dawns once more awakening inside,

perform again anew your sacramental sacrifice.

Until the Day when Spirit's distillate is all condensed,

and blood from stone to Stone is lifted to the Firmament.

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Nature's work well done, flowers forth divine

the crowning of the Serpent-Sun in mind.

The Cobra flares its fiery hood sublimed,

sealing in the royal Blood of Coronation now refined.

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The crown is sealed upon the Witch's Child,

born of the gnostic Serpent, Sophia, wise.

Pointing and waving from wholographic SpAce,

the quantum Christ-Child inside ever radiates.

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A Light Darkly

A Light Darkly

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Lucifer's light

darkly shines in my mind;

illuminating the ignorance

of worldly designs.

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Depression's ebb

sinks into the abyss;

suffocating the senses

in the nothingness myst.

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The thinking of thoughts

no longer apply;

their use for survival

is seen as a lie.

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The struggle and toil

in the duality dream,

is a projection of stories

on Oneness's Screen.

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Strange is the vision

that looks back from death's side;

the world's an illusion

lit by God's Eye.

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Shamanic Dismemberment, and Rememberment!

Mayan Sacrificial Knife.
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The spiral Beast, Quetzalcoatl,

dismembers my world undone!
Sacramental sacrifice

cuts through to the bone.

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Libidinal life reverses into fire;

death's mortido ignites the black desire.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

catabolic disintegration I must trust.

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The winged Serpent, invoked,

devours me unto the grave;

so that She, the rebirther,

can remember me remade.

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Through death to life restored,

dawns the quantum Light of Day.

The sun-like Son crowns forth,

born of a Serpent raised.

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The Shaman is born of a pregnant 
Serpent, Quetzalcoatl, after
undergoing death and dismemberment

in "the belly of the Beast."

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The Shaman enters the Spirit of the winged Serpent, Quetzalcoatl. Philip Gardiner, writes: "The snake's hole, the shamanic wormhole in consciousness, led him to the 'root of heaven,' which recalls the world-wide motif of the serpent at the foot of the Tree of Life. Quetzalcoatl is said to have left the country on a barge or raft supported by snakes, floating away across the water and promising to return as a 'once and future king.'"
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The Serpent is the Shaman's vehicle of transport across to the over-world of archetypes. He enters the Spirit realm through Quetzalcoatl (quetzal means bird, and coatl is serpent). The Shaman undergoes the secret and feminine process of transformation, riding the quantum wave of gestation, as consciousness develops its full and sublime potential.
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Somehow he stays with the wrathful Creature as she devours and rebirths at the same time. Consumed and consummated, the Shaman shape-shifts from human (hu = of the soil, humus) to divine being, born of a Serpent wise.

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Egyptian winged Serpent.

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Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon

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Enter the Dragon;

its fiery breath to ashes

will blacken and burn,

suffocating the senses.

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Enter the Dragon;

the white belly of the Beast;

where thoughts dissolve away

into Nothingness.

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Enter the Dragon;

demon creature of yore;

force of death's wish

and dissolution.

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Enter the Dragon,

spreading wings wide,

to fly transcendent

into Heaven's red sky.

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Enter the Dragon

with the crown of the King,

and find the Pearl Stone

pregnant within.

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Beyond Good and Evil: the Criminal Jesus as Anti-Christ.

It is a difficult and negative ex-perience to know of mySelf as the original source of all evil. Pan, the keeper at the gates of dawn, and spirit of "the all", is the Anti-Christ, the pandemical destroyer, Shiva; but also the panacea of divine poison, Mercury. Scape-goating must end at the apocalyptic "end time" if I am to transcend earthly polarity and dualistic limitation. The schizophrenic mindset of good and evil must somehow be reconciled within me. In order to experience an amoral perspective, i.e. beyond morality and immorality, and therefore an asexual and apolitical one, I must understand the sayings: "Judge not and ye shall not be judged;" "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's;" and, "When you make male and female into a single one, then you will enter the kingdom." (Gospel of Thomas, 22).

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Symbolically, (not physically) I am the murderer, the Shivic destroyer of worlds. I am the divine harlot, inviting consummation. I am the Christic "thief" (2Peter 3:10) who comes in the night. I am the bringer of war, for, "I did not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matt 10:34). I am the pyromaniac who has "come to bring fire on the earth" (Luke 12:49). I am the alcoholic who desires the elixir of "new wine." Behind every crime or seeming sin lies the criminal Jesus, the Anti-Christ, in a dysfunctional, egoic personification.

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And so, there are hidden secrets in mythical taboos. The incestuous Oedipus Christus, returns to his mother's womb, to be born again, renewed. He also killed his earthly father, the false ruler-king. In his book, Garden of the Golden Flower, Longfield Beatty, says: "The crimes of such maniacs as Gilles de Rais, who tortured and murdered some hundreds of children, derive, whether we like it or not, from the same immaculate abstraction which hanged Odin upon the tree and nailed Jesus to the Cross."

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Original innocence and sin are somehow catastrophically forgiven, cancelling each other out of time. A few lines from the Gnostic poem, Thunder Perfect Mind, to finish:

"I am the first and the last.

I am honored and scorned.

I am the whore and holy.

I am the wife and the virgin.

I am wife and groom.

I am silence incomprehensible.

I am shame and fearlessness.

I am war and peace.

I am the disgraced and the grand being.

I am called life and you have called me death.

I am alien and citizen.

I am union and dissolution.

I am sinless, and the root of sin comes from me.

I am lust outwardly, yet within me is control.

I alone exist and have no one to judge me."

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Alchemical Hermaphrodite, and

wedding of opposites.

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The Yolk of the Son

"The seed is the word of God." Jesus (Luke 8:11)

Picture source unknown.

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In the beginning was the prima materia or basic substance of the alchemists, the ouroboric serpent, egg, or seed of potentiality. As the Orphic Egg it contains the potential of the hidden yolk to become a sol like Soul or sun like Son. Prima materia is the Holy Spirit or Ruach Elohim, the fiery breath of God at the outset of creation. It is unrealized libidinal consciousness. It is the plasmateria of the neo-Alchemist; the original bling of Mother Nature.
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The Orphic Egg.

"The ouroboros is prima materia, the first matter from which all things are born. This is the essential material that the alchemist must work with to create the Philosopher's Stone. The circle represents the movement of divine energy away from and back toward itself." Francis Melville, The Book of Alchemy.

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An Mayan, Chinese, and Alien Ouroboros.

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The fiery breath of consciousness issues forth from the mouth of the Father. "Whoever touches truth touches the mouth of the father at the time when one will receive the holy spirit" (The Gospel of Truth). The holy spiration of volatile consciousness snakes through hisstory. The solar Serpent was a major symbol in Egyptian mythology, and also in early Christianity. But the Catholics broke-up the Unity of the Trinity by splitting-off the Holy Spirit (feminine Serpent, Eve, Sophia) and casting her down into the collective unconscious as the anti-Christ. Consequently, their religion became a lopsided masculine model where the Father and Son still dominate. Jung said, "Christ is also a serpent." Without a conscious understanding of the ouroboric fire of kundalini how can we come to know Christ, "the bright Morning Star" (Rev 22:16).

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 The Serpent Sun.

The serpentine sublimation of  spirit results

in the solarization of consciousness.

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The gnostic Sethians, Naassenes, Peratae, and Ophites (link) were Serpent worshippers who saw wisdom embodied in the Garden of Eden as the Snake. Jesus said, "Be ye as wise as serpents," and, "Even as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness, so shall the Son of Man be lifted up" (John 3:14). Was Jesus a gnostic Ophite or Naassene, who was teaching how to raise the Serpent or prima materia up out of matter, via transubstantiation, into the divine substance of New Wine?

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In the gnostic, Book of Baruch, by Justin, Naas, Hebrew for serpent, is the 3rd maternal angel created from the union of Elohim and Edem. Naas is also equivalent to the Tree of Knowledge. The serpent, fallen consciousnesss, with the help of human experience, must rise up the Tree toward its potential or goal, the Star of Christic enLightenment. This is what inspires Pagan rituals like hiding easter eggs or placing sacrificial gifts beneath a tree.

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The Christ Tree is where we place the gift of our potentiality. This is a sacrificial act of giving in order to receive. And what I desire to receive is the transformation of my present into the Presence of the Christic Star atop the Tree divine. The serpent, spirit, Naas, kundalini, hatched from the World Egg, is raised on the Tree of Knowledge and sublimated sublime. Libidinal consciousness reaches the apex of phallic ingenuity, spiralling and coalescing into the Self-reflective and sun like Son. The alchemist has created the shining Stone of Solification out of the prima materia of human consciousness.

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 ABRAXAS.

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Hermann Hesse: "Our god is named Abraxas and he is both god and devil at the same time.You will find in him both the world of light and of shadows. Abraxas is not opposed to any of your thoughts or to any of your dreams, but he will abandon you if you become normal and unapproachable."

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"The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio.
The serpent head has an open mouth extending around the east end of a 120-foot-long hollow oval feature. Scholars posit that the oval feature symbolizes an egg or the sun." (Wikipedia).

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It is thought that the Serpent has in its mouth the Orphic Egg, which perhaps contains the seed potential of the sun-like Yolk. The secret of the spiral unfolds the quantum wave of life, which rises up and births forth itSelf into the so-called Serpent-Sun. "The gnostic Autogenes is the 'self-conceived,' 'self-created,' or 'self-begotten.' Epithet of the divine in many gnostic texts." (The Gnostic Bible). 

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So here, we can finally see, in this ancient effigy, the impregnation of the Serpent/Spirit into matter. "Om," the quantum and secret "Word" is magically "made flesh" and displayed before us in all its naive and artistic brilliance. The pre-pregnation of virgin matter (mater, mother, matrix) with the quantum blue-print of the ouroboric Serpent  is revealed.

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The spiricle/wavicle is planted in the ground of materiality, and rises up to flower her Sun/Egg. The crowning of nature bears the fruit of the quantum Child, born of a Serpent. Feminine (Serpent) wisdom reveals her pregnant gnosis, as the incarnation of the "Word" unfolds its own inherent meaning of life. The sublimation of fiery kundalini transforms consciousness into holy or holographic Being.

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The Biscione Serpent.
Father, Son, and Spirit.
(just my interpretation)
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The End Time.

Picture source: Adam Mclean's Alchemy website.

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"The eucharist is Jesus.

In Syriac it is called pharisatha,

which is 'one who is spread out,'

since Jesus came to crucify the world."

(The Gospel of Philip)

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The End Time
(an apocalyptic revelation)

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The End of time is not to come,

for it has passed and been undone.

There is no future nor memory past;

the world has ended!... already, at last.

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Now time's march has come to rest;

inside the Son no rise nor set.

The tick-tock of twoness and its spell

is silenced by a timeless swell.

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 Heaven's heave does "violent" blow 

a hush of death upon my brow;

extinguishing the thoughts that blind,

and keep me in this trap of time.

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The Holy Spiration from the One

says: "Be still now, for I Am come."

A priestly pronouncement from the Christ,

decrees that all is crucified!

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Mithras.

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"Be still, my son! Hear the praise-giving that keeps the soul in tune, Hymn of Rebirth, a hymn I would not have thought fit so readily to tell, had'st thou not reached the end of all." Hermes.

The Apocalyptic Sound of One Hand Clapping

The Apocalyptic Sound of One Hand Clapping

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The right Hand of the Godhead

rises up like the sun-like Son.

A non-dual clap of perfect thunder

negates my dualistic life undone.

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A burst of enLightenment

shines forth a wholographic effusion.

The sound of One Hand lifted up

strikes me down in confusion.

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Heaven heaves

the "violent wind" of a holy spiration.

"Tongues of fire" devour me whole

in the furnace of destruction's creation.

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The soundless sound of the uncreated Creator

reSonates me out of my separate existence.

The Sky of God opens wide, in a

blinding flash of Nirvanic extinguishment.

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Quintessence; the Fifth Element.

Picture source: Adam Mclean's Alchemy website.

QuintEssence

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Heaven heaves:

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The pneumatic wind

of spirit's air

descends from its

transcendent lair.

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Into water life's breath

condenses down;

falling into

matter's ground.

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Soaked with moisture

spirit animates earth;

we grow and toil,

life's lessons learn.

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Earth decays,

dries out, and burns;

the element of fire

to dust returns.

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Then from the four

a fifth distills;

with Christic wine

the cup is filled.

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A drink of blood

in a new skin sealed,

by a mixed solution

my mind is healed.

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