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Aye, through death but not as ye know death, |
but a death that is life and is fire and is Light. |
Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden secret? |
Look in thy heart where the knowledge is bound. |
Know that in thee the secret is hidden, |
the source of all life and the source of all death. |
List ye, O man, while I tell the secret, |
reveal unto thee the secret of old. |
Deep in Earth's heart lies the flower, |
the source of the Spirit |
that binds all in its form. |
or know ye that the Earth is living in body |
as thou art alive in thine own formed form. |
The Flower of Life is as thine own place of Spirit |
and streams through the Earth |
as thine flows through thy form; |
giving of life to the Earth and its children, |
renewing the Spirit from form unto form. |
This is the Spirit that is form of thy body, |
shaping and moulding into its form. |
Know ye, O man, that thy form is dual, |
balanced in polarity while formed in its form. |
Know that when fast on thee Death approaches, |
it is only because thy balance is shaken. |
It is only because one pole has been lost. |
Know that the secret of life in Amenti |
is the secret of restoring the balance of poles. |
All that exists has form and is living |
because of the Spirit of life in its poles. |
See ye not that in Earth's heart |
is the balance of all things that exist |
and have being on its face? |
The source of thy Spirit is drawn from Earth's heart, |
for in thy form thou are one with the Earth |
When thou hast learned to hold thine own balance, |
then shalt thou draw on the balance of Earth. |
Exist then shalt thou while Earth is existing, |
changing in form, only when Earth, too, shalt change: |
Tasting not of death, but one with this planet, |
holding thy form till all pass away. |
List ye, O man, whilst I give the secret so that |
ye, too, shalt taste not of change. |
One hour each day shalt thou lie |
with thine head pointed to the |
place of the positive pole (north). |
One hour each day shalt thy head be |
pointed to the place of the negative pole (south). |
Whilst thy head is placed to the northward, |
hold thou thy consciousness from the chest to the head. |
And when thy head is placed southward, |
hold thou thy thought from chest to the feet. |
Hold thou in balance once in each seven, |
and thy balance will retain the whole of its strength. |
Aye, if thou be old, thy body will freshen |
and thy strength will become as a youth's. |
This is the secret known to the Masters |
by which they hold off the fingers of Death. |
Neglect not to follow the path I have shown, |
for when thou hast passed beyond years |
to a hundred to neglect |
it will mean the coming of Death. |
Hear ye, my words, and follow the pathway. |
Keep thou thy balance and live on in life. |
Hear ye, O man, and list to my voice. |
List to the wisdom that gives thee of Death. |
When at the end of thy work appointed, |
thou may desire to pass from this life, |
pass to the plane where the Suns of the Morning |
live and have being as Children of Light. |
Pass without pain and pass without sorrow |
into the plane where is eternal Light. |
First lie at rest with thine head to the eastward. |
Fold thou thy hands at the Source of thy life (solar plexus). |
Place thou thy consciousness in the life seat. |
Whirl it and divide to north and to south. |
Send thou the one out toward the northward. |
Send thou the other out to the south. |
Relax thou their hold upon thy being. |
Forth from thy form will thy silver spark fly, |
upward and onward to the Sun of the morning, |
blending with Light, at one with its source. |
There it shall flame till desire shall be created. |
Then shall return to a place in a form. |
Know ye, O men, that thus pass the great Souls, |