I

Muffled cries 
& momentary rending
   of force & fire.
Exceeding by delicacy -
   the impassioned dance
Flowing forth on a cushion
   of enthusiastic joy.
Bring the Magister forth
   unto ineffable  Light Life - Liberty & Love.
The Magister now sheds living tears
   as he lengthens unto the  Babalonian Temple.
Sparks of Shakti's dance tingle -
   the tongue of flame - the all consuming union approached.
A sweet smelling perfume of sweat breaks forth
   caressing as a serpent's kiss.
And two bright lights fuse to one
   then dissolve into none as the cries fade to contented smiles.

	        II
   
Sly Priestess
        lift the head now yours.
Adept of touch -
        stir the Magus from the slumber of the Magister.
He shall seek only to enrapture,
        to allude warmth of Binah.
The Priestess -
        tempting & taunting in play
Climbs forth from the Abyss,
        the blood of her restrictions heavy on her hands.
Enliven the snake of the new-made Magus,
        moving fast now slow.
Eld awakened - venom held by -
        the Priestess breaks the spell.
Chokmah draws sweet Amrita
        from the very depths of Binah.

              IV

Incensed air & candle glow,
     Lilith writhes in desire insatiate,
Glistening like serpent scale
     in the flickering light.
She enflames the triste
     as a tingle of tongue to spine.
The Priest steps forward
     singing words to her praise
While Lilith lay upon the altar
     eyes aslant & smile sly.

	"Light & Life, wisdom of
	       the Aeon
	Shed forth they virtuous
	       influence
	Unto this lightning-rod
	       of redemption,
	This hollow tube through which
	       the Blood of Eld passeth.
	Bring unto the worshipful
	       the Union of Thy Love
	          & Liberty."

Nemo lifts the wand -
        Lilith's Cup fills unasked with Wine.
She lifts a song of ecstasy
        unto the God of her torturous hunger.
A soft caress, the yearning of two;
	Priest & Priestess in ancient play.
The light grows to blinding intensity;
	the Temple shifts to a myriad of colours.
A bell rings in the distance
	& moon-lit oaks surround the Aspirants.
Quiet cries in the night,
	crashing crescendo of litinous Rite!
The Supernal pitch, exalted union,
	Samadhic attainment of the Pyramid of Fire!

A guttural song of bestial enchantment
	escapes Lilith's lips.
Thrashing delight,
	love exceeding!
Relentless Magus
	conjures on
Evoking renewed flame -
	the rapturous love-song
	   of hearts embrace.

		     V

	Sweet Cytherea in tryst
	       with powerful Ares.
	Phoebe ever receiving & reflecting
	       the essence of Phoebus.
	Dearest Electra, hide your light
	       to public eye -
	And radiate your effulgence
	       in the private embrace of Orion.

	Fire, Water, Earth.
	       Passion, love & a binding.
	Three by three I call -
	       Supernal Triad of Truth.

   As Empress, I seek the power
               to endure in the game of two.
        As Priestess, I turn the two to one,
	       the one to none, & the none to a third.
	As Goddess, I bring unimaginable joys -
	       certainty, not faith.

She conjures by day & night -
	A cornucopic delight by the slightest turn
	     of white wrist.
Rose & White Oak, Mandrake & Bay, Orchid & Mistletoe
	mingled in the mortar of emerald on a base of smoky quartz,
	     adorned with rubies.
Muttering softly the name of her desire,
	she rises in the dim light of the chamber.
Concentration held as she moves to the fire
	to perform the consummation.

	                   VIII

Casting dispersions of the wondrous Rite
		from beneath her brow, high-arched -
	she wonders that I could say that.
Advance of simple proposition
		by the contradictory man;
	her expression rebels her affected disbelief.
The Priestess dances round young Magister,
		stepping lightly as she go -
			Magister laughing before elicit Curse of Magus.

Smiling & beguiling
		spelling out the Magus' name;
	sweet Priestess fearing potentiality's issue
Swooning Magister keeps his place
		straining at her call.
	He pursues her trance of rapture.
Advancement in her act of drawing back;
		Priestess in apprehensive departure,
	And the Magister's wry expression
			of sweet covenant's approach.

                        XXIV

Under the harsh & unforgiving light,
	the chamber arrayed with tools of Art,
Obliqui quivers at the thought
	of her desire of binding in blood rite.
Lilith rising in the night,
	a serpent dance inciting adamantine return
Of the cherished two in one
	in a mingling of scarlet delight.

Raising his knife, Nemo makes clear
	the implications of the act.
Obliqui's head spins in confusion -
	trepidation out-matched by need of her fulfilment.
Nemo strikes with resolution,
	as fear & dread slowly dissolve
In the first mingling of the flow
	of the Danaid-ian sacrament.

Obliqui's desires running to extremes
	in needs of having & have not,
While Nemo smiling knowingly
	into the heart of his intended.
And, as Nimue, the Priestess asks
	of the secret in Merlin's grasp
Leaving him bewildered of her touch,
	though all the more contented.

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