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 Secret Book of John, Nag Hammadi Library)
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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 feathered Serpent shines;
the Sun 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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The Feathered Sun.

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My Shaman undergoes self entrancement,

to slough-off his elemental old skin;

focusing on the portal of Nowness,

spirals into the flames of Hades.

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Baptismal fire cleanses my elements,

and forges them into higher Metals:

refined Salt, red Mercury, Sulfur fixed,

new Earth, Blood~Moon, Sun of Bread.

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The human realm from on high is seen

as a discursive and elemental dream;

from which my Shaman disentangles,

by unlearning the four language modes.

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Glassy Sphere of a buoyant Observer,

rises from a dark Womb, Prima Materia;

floats to the surface of chaotic potential,

dawns as the Serpent-Sun, Quetzalcoatl.

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The Hall of Judgement is left behind,

four balanced elements cancel-out time;

the external dream-space is collapsed,

my Observer enters the Pearly Gates.

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The separation of life and death undone,

their flow and ebb become one Ocean;

Heaven heaves a Wave of upliftment,

water into Holy Wine of enLovenment.

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 On golden wings of Phanes ashine,

a Star is baptized in the crescent Moon;

Luna gives birth to a Phoenix reborn,

the feathered Sun of Solarization.

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Imploding from this world into the next,

exploding from the Oceanic Matrix;

down into hell and up into Heaven,

past the Double-Slit entrance redeemed.

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The higher Soul is now crystallized,

coagulated and coalesced divine;

the trinity of One seeing the One it is,

Observer, blind Love and shining Self.

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The Feathered Sun (link)