From The Universal Lyre

Yarrow, carpenter's weed, old
man's pepper.  Sun
opener.  Meadow 
fire.  

        Colorful broom.  Herb of the Spirits.

    Wild olive, devil's wood.  Lilac,
        the blue pipe tree.  The bluish
    flame which envelopes fraxinella. 

Bees to blue flowers.  Blue 
    Deer provides peyote.  As blue
is the best color for the interior 
    of a tea cup.

                Severed penises hang from her
        goatskin apron.  Her liver exults in mirth.

Nemain killed a hundred warriors with her voice.

    Enyo,
    goddess of war.  The snake
    goddess who lives in our backbones.
    
A tiny blaze of fire at the base of the spine.  

                A trumpet made from a femur.

Coca spoons from jaguar 
    bones.  The visionary
divination from burning blood.

        The coat of many colors is reserved
    for those who know oneiromancy.  Only those

who had achieved the fourth degree
    of wisdom were permitted to be teachers
of occult philosophy.  

                            Teaism is the smile 
        of philosophy.      Play is the chemistry of yes.  

 
They bathe their hands and heads
    in the juice of elder berries when 
they are being initiated into the mysteries. 

                    The messiah returned,
                    and she is Tiamat.  

As Puck to the Pooka, the
little Phrygian-capped mushroom.  

                The sacred cannibalism 
    that produces ecstasy and bestows knowledge.  

To fashion stars out of dog
dung, that is the Great Work.

                    Thou art the eyeball of Vritra.

    Floating stories, floating 
    figures.  Feel with the eyes.

Khadomas of wisdom, with 
    red and green eyes.

                The rewilding.

                            The relationship between
                            datura and palo verde.

The persea bears fruit in Egypt
but only flowers at Rhodes.  As

        the persea ripens its fruit at
        the season of etesian winds.

The angel that spoke to
Descartes.  
    Angels are heavenly whores.  Saint

Paul thought demons 

    were attracted to women's 
hair.  

        You will be embraced by your angel /

demon

at the moment of your death.  

                        Inca coca oracles.  The
                        wonderful child with oracular
    birds.  A pebble

            numbered 3663.  Mithras and Abraxas 
are gods of numerology.  Wrap a naked boy in linen

    from head to toe, then clap
your hands.


                For an only child I request immortality. 


For the earth-lion have I 

    obtained the boon.  The negativity

placed on the serpent

                        arose from the dominance of 
                        Marduk.

    Evil arose with the bifurcation of the collective mind.

Evil arose from the weakness of scientific 
mythology.  

    From solid to spoked wheels.  The correspondence 


theory of truth.  The secret name of 
    Rome.  Correggio's silver-

plated crescent moon.  Shinjed rides 

            a fearless buffalo.  The clarity 
of mind
        erases fear.  Fear 

guards the vineyard.
    Fear is the barrier between the ego

and the full understanding 

                of reality.  The giving up of
the sandals 

        to the giving up of the will.  

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