Banebdjed's Path

Kauket was boundless darkness Kuk was limitless light Vibratory foundation Perpetual and undefined Swelling from their wedlock: The oceans of Nunet Shifting yet inactive A cell of consciousness Within abysmal Nun From inmost depth One became Two Hauhet was the first reflection Huh was eternity of space Positive oscillation Cosmic ideation dissipates Birthed from cataclysm Amunet the unseen Negative torrent of time Amun – the concealed serpent Crowned! He who joined the gods with his shadow Ogdoad – the primeval eight Affixed! From their condensed mass arose the egg Fertilized by the Snake As Khepera I came Few gods were born Ophidian array With will and words of power I induced the elemental nature In union with myself My fluids waxed as gods and creatures Tefnut – moisture as material Pervades! Drafts of Shu and Geb as the black earth Thus from primeval matter I assumed the avatar of Ausar Life and death defined My Ba is the Lord of the Pillar!

Steadfast mystery of self-creation Cthonian tunnel in the deepest of dregs Saurian guard for the green sun of slough Nicititating membrane to gaze through the plane A great green marsh to engender himself He of the Lake who insulates the channel – the womb of Neith! Malediction to sustain inertia He emerges to isolate the spore – temple of Ikhesesef! Astral cavity of intersection Rowed scutes ossify for self-conservancy Crocodile of concourse and resurgence Regenerating eyes so the dead may see Algorithm to destroy for design Within Mer-wer he institutes gross matter – Prince of Secret Places! The scion and sign of Set An inverted sun Midnight beams penetrate Amenti From the Wadj-wer of the Scaled One Erector of Shedet Descendant of seven stars All vibrations are devoured Yet recast as the limbs of Ausar Source of the Iteru A cavernous churn In the circuit of the Gate of Death From chaos to the scheme of Earth The gormandizer of light One restrictive ward An inmost watery nether-space For the aspect of the roily Lord Two Caves – the Nile is the pillar Congealment – of cosmos into matter Epoch – Ausar’s dismemberment Concealment – the shadow is the mask The scion and sign of Set An inverted sun Midnight beams penetrate Amenti From the Wadj-wer of the Scaled One Erector of Shedet Descendant of seven stars All vibrations are devoured Yet recast as the limbs of Ausar The great old god to reverse the current Crocodile who incubates the dimness – the hiss of Sobek!

I was guided through the path of elemental trial Led by Her bestial mazards I am told whereto the serpents of Her waist extend Gliding with supernal fervor A trimorphic body stages three roads before me Right: Way of Wisdom: Hekate as waxing I bear two lit torches akin to Her image As two pillars topped with lamps I am told wherein Her colors coincide A charm annealing spirit and mind By way of theurgy, I am furnished in Her armor: An etheric sheath to traverse ancient crossroads Warranted with Moon Wand, I conform with the shadow: Incisions on the underside of pure consciousness Four faces chart a simulacrum of gold Forward: Pass of Portal: Hekate as full By means of fixation, I am supplied brazen sandals: The accouterments to roam the astral reach Within the flux and flow, I reforge impulse: A portentous weapon of triplex energy Six arms map the network of the adepts Left: Path of Practice: Hekate as waning I am initiated into the moon’s radiant sphere I saw the black dog of earth within and hydra of the waters below I rise above the rejected and vibrate air as a snorting bull I raise my torch-wands to the fiery steed above I am Her Beholder ASKEI KATASKEI ERON OREON IOR MEGA SAMNYER BAUI PHOBANTIA SEMNE

A chaotic morass of paradoxical attributes Initial balance is formed: Routing three into the One Material Elemental combination in the basin Dividing yet uniting the indivisible Herald crow thus arrives for initial sight Diametric first sparks kindle and ignite Hexagram clinching and sealing equilibrium King and Queen fixed and poised for copulation Submergence into the watery vessel of six sides Active coitus; first conjunction: archetypes combine Libidinal ghost in spirit rains sulphur upon the husk Putrefaction of the amalgam; Eros thus adjusts The soul of Sol returns Vehicle dissolves: A passive body sees distillation through death The climb from the tomb Basilisk quelled: The four-shaded Ortus appears amid the heptarchy Passive, cold, moist, watery Whitened tincture of Lunar Mastery Perfect Luna imbued with albedo Animus channeled into a lustrous moonstone Passive coitus; second conjunction: Seed and egg drown in crypts of darkness A reestablished androgyne rouses The intangible apparition: Dew of mercury upon the carrion Spirit returns to recast Logos Accrescence of the Will The bird sinks in its own blood Self-consuming serpents consummate: Closing transmutation Active, hot, dry, fiery Reddened tincture of Solar Mastery Perfect Sol clad with obscurity Anima encapsulates a shining ruby Red and white eyes glittering To the lion’s gut: Azoth: Entelechy A final death is required to reveal the hidden Gold

Banebdjed is the four-headed illuminator Bearer of the Sun and Lord of the Pillar The Great Ba holds the active ba of Re-Atum: His consciousness is sheer light, locked with Wadjet A vessel for the post-dismembered Ausar His spine is the djed of equilibrium Central cynosure and Sacrificed God; The Sphere is the point of the sekhem Speak His ren (it is a code of magick) Exalt the Lovers (the Sphere is their product) Traverse the desert (He chose the knowledge of Set) Blench under gaze (rich in virile power) Quaff from the chalice (intoxicating revelation) Behold the column (arrowed Microprosopus) In consuming the Mendes-mead to solar inebriation, I am herded toward truth Operative disincarnate mode of ultimate reason; Of a higher psychism Direct the was-wand (conjoined with loop of the ankh) Writhe below brilliance (crux on a sword of flames) Follow the ungulate (an epicene intellect) Honor the phallus (flourishing in its rising) Nourish euphoria (the ecstasy of Djedet) Signal the kernel (for Auset’s lotus of creation) In tracing the recursion and balance of the pillar’s catena, I descry tetraglyphs above From the quadra-ram, the light extends to the psychic moon; Tetramorphs, then elements A golden, luminous flare; Heket’s heka reactively reflects A downward impetus of lust; Hatmehit’s fish spawn and usher Heru-pa-khered Partially the emptiness and current of Shu Pacified balance with the swirling akhu Space allows for cleavage between above and below: Yielding, yet stable like an emptied grail Enclosed within is the serpent of Geb The asp of earth lays the desert of Set Phallus poised ever-ready for Nut: Yet the Ram’s vigor cascades down!

The ego isolates itself into the pit of “I” Tortuously, sarkic enfeeblement is to be molted In thought’s destruction the Golden Messenger is withdrawn; There is only isolation in the Sea of Sand The laughing obverse of Pan jeers at injunction Liminal lemures are locked in mockery Without preparation, recoil and neuroses are imminent Pneumatic facsimile is the only means of passage Should the Amorphous One of the Pylon retract, Sand smothers empiricism and stars become mere grains The eminent Pyramid’s apex is the Hollow of Knowledge Ultimate realization of force and form Perception dissolves in the Hole of Death The Universe becomes unguided Noumena overcome phenomena; One to be itself in echt rawness Creation writhes in prostration One may sink to the “other side” In mining toward the hypokeimenon; Amaurosis via Veil of Light She is the medial menstruum between two columns; A Priestess of the Moon and Silver Star Isis, far beyond ousia and of the Mandorla Mystery Spirit behind the splendor: The veil is not the nexus First phase of manifestation: Throned keeper of systems The eternal Urania: To melt all antipodes Isis of the Silver Star: Abyssal uniting intelligence

PART I: Dissolutive Desolation Kether is the first, from which all Spheres proceed; The Primum Mobile configurated with blankest of light Inherently, a definable drift must differentiate; Emanations of bipartite power and process Yet a cycle will draw to dissolution Omnipresence must meet its “positron” Omniscience must return to Chnouphis Omnipotence must undergo retraction Within Binah expansion becomes locked; The eviscerator for stabilization Yet when equipoised weight is faltered, Static totality siphons the universe Will is displaced into first intent Understanding is dissolved as a sole compound Reason is disintegrated to the simple Substance is dissipated from many to one The fire of action is withdrawn to the source The water of reaction is inapt to restrict The air of intellect is asleep in torpor The earth of matter is riven in reset Outward from Chokmah impulse emits; A flowing force for ever-expansion Yet in imbalance with a destroyer, Unsuppressed dynamism straightens to its root Cosmos in a state of Absolute Motion Ideal to be engulfed in a Great Inhalation; Manifestation and Actual will submit In tonic Exhalation, worlds are cast anew The seal of the Seventh Aeon heralds rebirth Omnificence must sleep in encasement Omnitude must drown in whirling waters Omnifariousness must decompose PART II: Creative Convergence “O Kematef, eternal blazing serpent, Demiurgical intellect of All-Wisdom O Kematef, ophiomorphic spark, May you become the Hidden One!” The Egg: a primordial point in infinite yet generative waters Impregnated by airy nous, the principle is staged for consciousness Incubated by the fiery Horned Serpent, fiery phallicism forces genesis From the yolk dawns entitative substance subordinate to cosmic laws “O Suhet, position of rebirth, Whose albumen is creation’s matrix O Suhet, of immortal series, May you hatch the gods!” PART III: Regenerative Rebirth