Secret Key to the Pearly Gates.

John Dee's symbol for the Monad, from Monas Hieroglyphica. 

The Secret Key to the Pearly Gates.

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Mind, empty of human concerns,

egoic thinking in fire burns;

death separates two kingdoms,

elemental Earth from metallic Heaven.

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How to enter the pearly sky?

Stolen fire is the secret key.

What comes from Heaven returns,

a burning cross on high ascends.

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Promethean fire destroys, creates,

forges Metals from elements;

we are the languages we learn,

from Heaven's one "Word" fallen.

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A test of Metals will decide,

if I make it through the Underworld;

the buoyancy of my Observer,

is weighed against Maat's feather.

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The language of fire is symbolic,

more powerful than any concept;

imagination of burning intuition,

turns water to Wine by distillation.

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A vertical Wave~motion rises; 

the Red Sea of salvation parts;

reverse~flowing Jordan transcends,

into the Mouth of a shining Sun.

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A flaming sword of atomization,

"flashes all ways" at the Entrance;

a Cherubim speaks in Heaven's tongue,

testing three Metals with a question.

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"Who does your Grail eternally serve?"

A Libation for my own god above.

My Mind red shifts through open Gates,

with the secret passWord answered.

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Observer, through the Double-Slit,

inside a universal Wave uplifts;

collapses the Wave's intoxication:

a Point of drunken Self-remembrance. 

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The Cherubim Guarding the Gates to the Garden of Eden
and the Tree of eternal Life.  Carl Bloch.

Tria Prima: the three metalloid compounds of the higher Self.

"Mercury is the Spirit, Sulfur is the Soul, Salt the Body [New Skin]." 

(Paracelsus).

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