"You Are Gods" (parts I and II)

The old kingdom Ogdoad (8) of the four elemental and
primordial frog-headed gods and their serpent consorts.
"Be ye as wise as serpents." "You are gods." Jesus.

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"You Are Gods."

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Reality depends upon an Observer,
quantum science affirms the Creator;
there's no Big Bang without God's Mind,
collapsing Stars from Wavy time.
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Our fallen Spirit is a Gnostic Spark,

Orphic Egg containing the Wind, Ruach;

Magic Bean that grows the true Vine,

Serpent-Fire forging a god divine.

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Elemental languages replace the "Word,"

four dialects of the Ogdoad learned;

the Wind takes form as ideation;

we are baby gods in Self creation.

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But four spirits are not everlasting,

into three metalloids must start shining;

the Tria Prima of Alchemy refined,

Ka, Ba and Akh of a godly mind.

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Earth and Water create a Salt memBrane,

crystalline lucidity, Pearl of the Dragon;

Mercury quadratus from Water and Air;

Sulfur fixed as gold by Wind and Fire.

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But we aren't alone in this endeavour,

our Ouroboros Spirit can self-devour;

into the Netherworld of lord Hades,

where Vulcan forges immortal metals.

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Death, Thanatos, will begin the task,

dissolving elements once they're balanced;

back into the Watery womb of Nu,

to be compounded into a trinity new.

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The Spirit is stripped of information,

Water cleanses as the first baptism;

human conditioning must be undone,

it ties us down in a lower kingdom.

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Christ now appears with fiery sword,

the final baptism that cuts the cord;

my animal-Spirit sacrificed to the Sun,

biological instincts, the roots of Pan.

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My ego starts the Fire with intuition,
which then takes on a life of its own,
and flares-up as Agni, consuming me,
turns into the Light of my Imago Dei.
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The scythe of Death gathers the harvest,

green wheat dies into golden Bread;

Dionysus in drunken rapture dines,

with Wine to toast the resurrection.

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There he is, Zurvan, a god reborn,

from Orphic Egg and Serpent forged;

with gilded wings of Phanes, ashine,

Spark to Fire into enLightened Lion.
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A mere human undergoes apotheosis,
into a god divine by metamorphosis;
"seed of the Word" into thinking patterns,
words and ideas into a grand Conception.
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Thus we magic up the spells of mind,
by way of Thoth, Magician archetype;
until we conjure a singular inSight,
a thoughtless Bubble of pneumatic Light.

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A Stream of mythical streaming stories,

contains the gods and their tall tales;

threads from Glaucus dangle down,

to catch a human by inSpiration.

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This River of sparkling revelations,

where Pan is panning for his gold,

flows Home into a Star-filled Ocean,

Pleroma of the One God, ever unborn.

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Quantum Stream full of Serpent gods,

is the Thought-Wave of the OverLord;

the uncreated Creator of consciousness,

Mind of the "Word," shining Logos.

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A P O T H E O S I S 
Zurvan, Persian Sun god. A human transforms by way
of apotheosis, metamorphosing into a god divine. 

"When Sophia (wisdom) saw what her desire had produced,
it changed into the figure of a snake with the face of a lion."
The Secret Book of John, 85 A.D.  Nag Hammadi Codex 4.
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In The Image of God.
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"God created man in his own Image." (Genesis 1:27)
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The conjuring-up of ideational images,
up out of consciousness is a magic trick;
thought bubbles in the front lobe of mind,
emotionally-charged and rationally designed.
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An idea got us to the moon and back,
we invented rockets and tamed our instincts;
an invisible belief can change the world,
unite us together in a common ideal.
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But where does thinking originate from,
and what is its ultimate expression?
Thoth is the god of thought and magic,
Scribe of spells spelling Logoic logic.
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Animals cannot think in their kingdom,
they rely upon instinctual programming;
this earth element we also retain,
the id energy that drives our brain.
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"The seed is the Word of God," Jesus,
id grows as libido inside all of us;
earthen id into watery libido flows,
from which airy bubbles of pneuma arise.
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The seed or magic bean thus germinates
the "divine animal," Spirit of the Snake;
fiery kundalini searches for the Light,
four elemental languages intertwined.
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A quaternity of lower consciousness,
in "tongues of fire" burn on the cross!
The four elements go up in holy smoke,
the Spirit transcends and sublimates.
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Fire baptizes by cleansing the mind,
mental matter, ideation, goes into decline;
ego's libido is blackened into mortido,
Sol Niger, the Black Sun of Nigredo.
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Our Spirit is stripped of elements,
the "grapes of wrath" must now ferment;
into three volatile compounds ashine,
Tria Prima: Salt, Mercury, Sulfur refined.
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Who can bear the flames of Breath,
the pneumatic wind of fiery death?
The egoic artist begins his masterpiece
on the energetic fabric of the Universe.
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The interwoven four-elements balanced,
instinct, emotion, thinking and intuition,
self-create a personal identity honed,
who must now become a shining One.
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How to solidify crystalline lucidity,
so I no-longer fall back into a dream;
Sulfur fixes refined Salt with Mercury,
 3 metalloid compounds of a Soul trinity.
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Already we create a four-fold ego-image,
we can now extrapolate up the pyramid;
into three shining qualities of an Observer,
the Imago Dei that lasts forever and ever.
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Humans can only live a hundred years,
then elements return to the id reservoir;
unless compounded into higher metals,
the trinity of a godly Self eternal.
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The creative flame that the ego lights,
flares-up from the divine Spark inside;
immolates the lower elemental person;
Agni, the fire-god, burns to bones.
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Albedo, the whitening of consciousness,
is the Phoenix reduced to ashes;
death is the prelude to resurrection,
Rubedo, the holy wine of celebration.
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Spirit rises from id to the Ideal,
fire into the Light of a Sol like Soul;
the eternal winged memBrane of mind,
transcendent awareness, god designed.
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Thoth, the god of thought power.
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