Banebdjed (Solar Inebriation and the Sun Chalice)

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!