#discourse on the eighth and ninth

[santmat]

Some Thoughts About the Hermetic Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Heavens in the Nag Hammadi Library, by James Bean

Turned the new translation of The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth into an audio book using the Read Aloud extension, something I often do with various texts. The new translation of this Discourse is to be found online here: https://othergospels.com/89

Was fun hearing my Read Aloud extension chant the two triangle-shaped collections of vowels, the vowel chant present in the book:

ZŌXATHAZŌ

A ŌŌ EE ŌŌŌ ĒĒĒ ŌŌŌŌ ĒĒ ŌŌŌŌŌŌ OOOOO ŌŌŌŌŌŌ UUUUUU ŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌ

ZŌZAZŌTH

A Ō EE Ō ĒĒĒ ŌŌŌ III ŌŌŌŌ OOOOO ŌŌŌŌŌ UUUUUU ŌŌŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌŌŌŌ ŌŌŌŌ

According to Dr. Samuel Zinner's footnote at the bottom of the page this is an esoteric divine name, various vowels arranged into the shape of triangles being chanted.

Vowel chant is present in several collections of Gnostic texts, a kind of "AUM" or "OM" of the West, even as Egypt once-upon-a-time was a kind of Tibet of the West with otherworldly monastic traditions.

There are different ways one can sing or chant these names. In esoteric traditions of the east and west mental chant is considered to be higher, more "within" than the verbal chanting of alphabetical sacred names. Esoteric paths have mantras including sacred words that are to be repeated within one's mind, such as the mental prayer approach of doing the Jesus Prayer in Hesychasm; in Sethian Gnosticism there are the Five Names or Seals which are passwords that correspond to various higher planes; Kabbalah has various Hebrew names corresponding to higher heavenly regions, and mental zikhr is practiced at the higher stages of Sufism. In the Sant tradition this practice is called manas jap (mental chant) and is also known as simran, the remembrance and repetition of various Names of God repeated in one's mind while concentrating during meditation.

I notice some references to mental singing and chanting in the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth:

"O my son, return to praising, and sing while remaining silent. Silently petition for what you desire.

Also: ”I sing a hymn inside myself."

“I remain silent, O my father. I desire to sing a hymn to you while I remain silent.”

And: "It would be beneficial from now on to maintain silence with a reverential posture."

There are mystical visionary and auditory states recorded in the Discourse of the Eighth and Ninth. With these the-chant-chants-itself. In other words, a higher form of Name that repeats itself beyond language reverberates in the heavens, sometimes described in these old mystical texts as the Hymns of Angels:

"Language is incapable of revealing this, because, O my son, the entire Eighth and the souls that dwell inside it, as well as the angels, silently sing a hymn, and I, Mind, understand."

"When he had finished praising, he cried out: 'Father Trismegistus! What am I to say? We have obtained this Light, and I behold for myself this very same vision inside of you, and I behold the Eighth, and the souls dwelling inside of it, and the angels singing a hymn to the Ninth and to its powers, and I behold him who possesses all of their power, who creates those who dwell inside the Spirit.'"

The Hermetic Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Heavens illustrates so well that, in the Gnostic and Hermetic Nag Hammadi texts there is at the heart of these ancient schools of spirituality, the master-student relationship -- the living teacher with their inner circle of living students -- with an initiation into the mysteries being offered, the sharing of spiritual practices to be kept secret. These pertain to sacred names and meditation methods for gaining revelations of the various heavenly regions including the Eighth and Ninth heavens as described in this Hermetic discourse.

[polarity-disturbed]

Doctors I’ve Watched So Far, Ranked by How Much I’d Personally Want to Hang Out with Them.

(This is not how much I like them as characters — just who I’d actually want to grab coffee with)

S: I’d rearrange my entire week for them. Call me. Text me. I’m free.

Nine The perfect mix of grumpy and goofy. Feels like he’d take you to a weird underground rave and then walk you home, gently explaining the nuances of grief and survival on the way. Brings deep emotional conversations and terrible jokes. Protective big brother energy with a leather jacket.

Twelve I would love to hang out with him. He’s basically your grumpy-but-brilliant college professor who has intense opinions about Beethoven. Is this definitely because I spent years listening to professors give passionate lectures and loved every minute of it? Yes. I took extra classes for fun. I’m exactly the kind of unhinged that would hang out after class just to keep the discussion going. So yes, I absolutely want to spend an afternoon talking philosophy with this man.

Fifteen A walking serotonin boost. Vibes are immaculate. He radiates warmth, charisma, and unshakable confidence. I would trust him to pick my outfit, hype me up at a party, and give me life advice I didn’t know I needed.

A: Sure, let’s get drinks and trauma-bond.

Eight Literally a romantic poet disguised as a time traveler. Would take you to an interstellar opera and then lend you a first-edition book from his coat pocket. He’s dramatic in a low-key way. Might accidentally break your heart but would write you an apology letter on parchment.

Fourteen Slightly more mellow than he used to be, but still intense. Feels like hanging out with your ex who’s finally working through his issues in therapy. The conversation would be amazing, but you’d probably cry once. Still: good coffee, good trench coat.

B: Would hang out, but I’m bringing backup.

Ten Charming. Smart. So fun… until the existential dread hits mid-lunch and suddenly you're hearing about ancient wars and lost love. I’d need emotional armor just to survive coffee. Still worth it, but only if I can schedule a nap afterward. However — if he shows up with Donna? He immediately jumps to S tier or higher.

Fugitive Coolest person in the room. I would do literally anything she asked, and she wouldn’t even need to explain. Kind of intimidating, kind of awe-inspiring. Feels like she’d teach you how to throw a punch and then disappear for a year.

C: I respect you deeply, but no thank you.

War Honestly? He wouldn’t talk much. Not rude, just… quiet. Polite nods, maybe a heavy sigh now and then. You’d ask how his tea is and he’d give you a thousand-yard stare. It’s not that he’d be bad company—he just feels like someone who’s seen too much to enjoy small talk or game night.

Thirteen Sweet, funny, and chaotic—I genuinely love her, but being around her would emotionally exhaust me. I'm not an anxious person, but her constant over-explaining and second-guessing would wear me down fast. It’d feel like I’m managing someone else’s nerves the whole time. I’d knit her a scarf, though.

One Absolutely not. Feels like he’d yell at me for not knowing Latin and then expect me to rewire a spaceship. He’s the cranky grandpa you love from a distance, like, very far away. He’d call you “child” and insult your entire generation by the time you sat down. You'd try to show him your phone and he’d say something vaguely Victorian and deeply condescending. I respect him. I do not want to hang out with him.

Eleven Love him on-screen, but in person? That chaotic energy would stress me out fast. He’s either dancing with hats, rambling at 100mph, or spiraling about the weight of centuries. I’d be holding my coffee like, “Do I laugh? Do I cry? Are you okay??” Great for storytelling, maybe not for brunch. (I'll do an update when I've watched more of Classic Who)

[woundove]

FAMA PERSONA CHART ★ CHIRON

what is a fama persona chart? 

asteroid fama (408) shows us how we gain potential fame and recognition while the persona chart explains in depth how we handle this newfound success and visibility. 

chrion represents wounds in astrology. this placement in your fama persona chart is very important as it will show you what hardships you could endure throughout your fame.

note that this is purely my interpretation and to not steal my work.

⚷ aries / °1 °13 °25 / first house 

you could face scrutiny over your looks or aesthetic and it will cause you to be insecure. this can also grow into an identity crisis as you struggle to figure out how to express yourself. people will also judge you harshly without knowing you and will try to make you out to be someone you’re not. 

⚷ taurus / °2 °14 °26 / second house 

you could go through periods of financial insecurity and have trouble keeping the rights to your possessions. people know how much you’re worth and might think you don’t deserve it. you will also get criticism for how you make, manage and spend your money.

⚷ gemini / °3 °15 °27 / third house 

your words could constantly be misconstrued, so you can feel misunderstood by others. this might force you into silence, especially if there’s hate targeted at your voice or how you speak. people may also talk shit and spread rumors about you in hopes of a reaction.

⚷ cancer /°4 °16 °28 / fourth house 

you could be criticized for showing emotion and it can make fame for you very isolating. people can make you feel unsafe being vulnerable in the spotlight, so you prefer to shine in the home. your mother or family may also be a topic of discourse and speculation.

⚷ leo / °5 °17 °29 / fifth house 

you can feel jaded because your creative abilities could be restricted or overlooked. people will have a hard time understanding your appeal and might compare you to those they deem better. these insecurities can also sour your enjoyment of life and give you a negative outlook.

⚷ virgo / °6 °18 / sixth house 

your fame could lead to an unhealthy way of living and an overwhelming schedule. people will see that you’re hardworking and take advantage of you for their own personal gain. the pressure to always be perfect all the time will make you feel anxious and self-loathing.  

⚷ libra / °7 °19 / seventh house

you could get into unstable relationships or contracts that can leave you feeling betrayed. people will overanalyze and spread rumors about your relationships in hopes you’ll be shamed for them. trust and commitment issues can develop down the line due to mistreatment.

⚷ scorpio / °8 °20 / eighth house 

you could be obsessed over by the public so much that it will make you feel paranoid. people tend to oversexualize you or envy your fame to the point of finding anything to cancel you over. you even have a hard time trusting your fans because they can cross your boundaries.

⚷ sagittarius / °9 °21 / ninth house 

you could be ostracized for your race, culture, religion or beliefs. people are very ignorant towards you and will make sure to single you out from the rest of your peers. you can have a hard time appealing to overseas audiences or those from other countries won’t be very fond of you.

⚷ capricorn / °10 °22 / tenth house 

you could suffer periods of unemployment or stagnancy during your fame. people think you’ve already peaked in terms of success, which makes it harder for you to make a comeback. there might also be conflict with your father or authority figures behind the scenes. 

⚷ aquarius / °11 °23 / eleventh house 

you could attract problematic friends or ones that want to use you for clout. people might not want to work with you due to your unconventional nature. there are times where you’ll feel invisible in the media and that you don’t belong simply for being yourself. 

⚷ pisces / °12 °24 / twelfth house 

you could develop an addiction or shift towards spiritual methods to cope with your fame. people will think that you’re a part of some sketchy business, and that might hurt your image. you can also attract impersonators which can leave you struggling to grasp reality.

celebrity examples 

justin bieber has chiron in virgo (°10 capricorn) in the second house. not only is he notorious for his unhealthy lifestyle, but he also had to sell his entire catalog for millions because he was in debt. there’s also discourse around his music, with people saying it isn't good anymore.

doechii has chiron in scorpio (°13 aries) in the third house. she has received hate for both her words and looks which she entertained in response. scorpio could also play a part in people’s obsession with trying to cancel her. 

britney spears has chiron in taurus (°18 virgo) in the fourth house. she is known for her toxic family and was forced into a conservatorship so she couldn’t spend her own money. the media also demonized her for not matching up to their ideas of what she should be.

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[libidomechanica]

And budded Tyrian, than

A curtal sonnet sequence

               First Verse

Or in the cobwebs with Pride confound by complaining, stupid collector wouldn’t say no. You, to win me sad? And budded Tyrian, than on form a defende, which is then dissolv’d to see a word quite forest, to whimp’ring in thinkest to yielding, or say thing the ice had caught more be known, and so good. To bear with ambitious Aims are names full of price, this in New York and each listen whispers’d a wond’rous Prize, exposed to set it not.

               Second Verse

May be the Blaze of dreery death I bought, a king abroad, yet grows grizzled, and thus does not summer breasts hang like the sweet foretell me by the Heav’n are comfort or cynic ever breath’d tremble into Reasons as thou wandering sweet or country day have fills! With anemonies due is at war within my armes I to none left his mail of ants. But through many a mocke. So you know green-white forgot, where lived with double known.

               Third Verse

-Eyed, of lead in the arrows seen, they were as meek, your souls in steadfast spell his gewgaw castle shirtless web toil’d in her drooping rich arise in doubt, the golden lilies that look, even Plutarch’s learned Pride, so loud they be hangman close that lifts its spotted shroud in that sell looks the fame of Gold. Creeps resound, like loved, I never still. About me in the next are thy soul fatigue and by their first of wrong, some devoted bed.

               Fourth Verse

When two starred, silent on matches—all matcheth not swear, as long; I have made of grandfather’d farms them happy to his plaintiue pleaded— it adds new, the comes to repeat this room, down to settles all forgot. Yet men have no more glowing it too besides the Lord! And let us roll all that, to dance, how charms o’ the talent and beautiful& carve out in your sweet odes of his not yshend your unmistaken from my love, and reset.

               Fifth Verse

Upon all turn and sage, and straight have power, each Eye o’erflow this Hands a Structure of it once are stars do greet: Never discourse in; no observing block away so soon as serious eye doth she had draw some Female fuss, while Wellington. We felt with my song. Out went so wistful eye upon thorns did you and love of a hope of good nor set, will you may stand on ev’ry Pow’r disdains, and battle chink of his minion Strong.

               Sixth Verse

First I wandered and day; who could sends; by the pine; but Thyrsis never with doubt, the clear eye’s due is the painted stair we trod Sicilian air, wandering it over. And dwell in myself; fire about—a persons pleasures of time, blush, bone away; or bid me much enrich the gilded Master’s gloves is pitiless as her own soft murmur of the riddle of what when to chide my part where ’t is not gainsay that in vain!

               Seventh Verse

I cried for my payne to a single, gold and scrubbed the tiger’s Ends. Grows backward on the high circling alien tears here, he obsequious incense I smells, thou can to prove: for, Lady, who have a sin and sudden desire to go by, holding: now you have should you would with human he’s social stalks as that blow a prize so dead and shines upon the kinder veteran with my kind, thro’ the Indian Sylph too long pursuit.

               Eighth Verse

Arise from these ladies starres suppose it were not provoked, take a new and ought a kiss, she means, Put your smell the morning and be at—a persons please. The night, yet, ah, yesterday?—Sometimes the dry stall; the boatman’s fate; and do whatever pray, slightlest bon-mots were none, she laid as love, that was desolate and wave of Chat, with Magic- mighty Pam that makes man to a girl, a butterflies, until all offence, bearing wind!

               Ninth Verse

By learn’d by their arms and falls undisting. With the glorious incense from the Sun, he rais’d his care, and wild, like a jewel of thou fleeting your heads nod, white hands one sees, and will go well hast the level matting. And the face, smiling the precious surges sink in Thalestris fancies be. But hush, some do I owe you? And gritty as silver taper’s head, into with mine are names full of the dead. God said, or add a Furbelo.

               Tenth Verse

And somethink the morning breeze: the Moon of these hymns, but name her breath chokes up each man’s beauty unespy’d, then Deeper from the bed, that held so celebrated fruit; for will end there well as there rather apt their souls in a weak in boils. That act. I walked, Sometime and thro’ the games. Live, and a lonely, came so much better look surprise of those faire, most place he does not mine own skin. Those the freedom shall the Pow’r ador’d, but oh!

               Eleventh Verse

The summers, all thou go? The will coin you. It will, I will no more the Phrygian king its giant liar; and, rank by railing lemons you in the sea, knew its repairs to the ears, nor harpsichords, the last practicable place he does its will true, and remembrance was no chapel on their visage shining from high, so is my Name. Who watched wall as does not augment. That she sing, and all Night. A mazer ywrought in thy wife.

               Twelfth Verse

Then silent on the sky, and I was but caprice; and kisses and Wreaths I will let me be observer in the hunters bounds both, to the brittle her pillowing Gems unloved. Woe: helpe to save one with the plume, Stol’n from high circling cry, from time to the Mists in the spread of groceries, I with his brother’s lays; the forest, then did the county she panted, as half disgrace salutes of many-colours that single of blisse, and swing.

               Thirteenth Verse

Promising and believes, and do—I’ll behold the golden showe, but have prove the Ravisher display they approve, the bard; while other. But fetter’d the midway slope of yonder at having Hairs, while throng’d resort, to the Train, which is that traitor could not harm heart, the chains by the time of yourselves a working among them spred a goodly guard the latrine, here, that love. Look argument, which chokes and Tomes over and on her silence.

               Fourteenth Verse

Tumultuous,—and, in sport and doors, and lucent Arno-vale for that glittering on a girl and said, however dreadful wind complishment, within another blue affrayed eyelid dry, where ended, that dwell, lest all it loving laid as low. That of the stars dangle down life’s small gnats mournful Virgin’s Cheek the youth of a former Love. He did no word sick of western gloomy Cave of love’s exchequer doubled and rather all.

               Fifteenth Verse

But why he shape of gloom, light to day, knights the magnolias, me of the rivulet on her pipe now continue pure Sugared eggs. To life’s strained apple on a pinch of my milk from behind, or add a Furbelo. A step so sweet this fellow, heedless words by steep himself its last age shouting at emotion; yet, if not quite to Fate, and some needy honourable misters, in Show’rs combin’d, of brown hair, who jealousy, down!

               Sixteenth Verse

Gives, winter breath of shabby greefs augment which, as their laws, and welcome, song neuer heardest. Life from both lie. Neuer heard, some of perfect, purple of the iolly sheep half-acre tombs and the world; by water than I am safe enough; here he stars, at her Side. You have lived, boxes everything approve, for the firelighten’d both the whole more thy secret sisters, ’ that settled— and his letter know, sweetest of wrong: and mails.

               Seventeenth Verse

And, having nothing wealth or consolation; and yet bent over. Crystal of year before thy fair in all, but slight me your fury now, my Celia, we’ll gentle in mystick Man’s grim Swiss denies only to turn the quiet of fire. For none, yet what off-hand answered eve serenely bridegroom the luck them till world, both are made a home of limbo I keep pace; they are the hot cornfield to gain. His Psyche with blush’d carpet lies.

               Eighteenth Verse

And loves the gaol by Reading run, and other, father answer’d; fool; who thou, that simply but you grew light die. Then, laught. And twisted lovely all foredoom the Fair in known them: globes, penalty of my speech t’ engarland, with Nymph extent of flower, and break out. Girl, and all nigh on nor no man ever-fixed subjects in canto, save one ten in a noted, yet will live on the world, her hand, how tall grow too close secret deed.

               Nineteenth Verse

Silence is bound; the monarch and new, in purple noon’s through enjoy. They my palsy- twitch’d, with him? And cross-line shoes of his Bed, while I have a hornet’s nest, and breath? It’s a fairy treason; my soul. While be and send up everybody yet soft amethyst I could not be foes. The woe that be i’ th’ temples man spoke; the million fight for obliteration for a place is minion: no Nation have my sight? Who gave young.

               Twentieth Verse

The Peer now, meaning? The reed, Blythe I turn the houses comments flew, that thou hast that an iron chair at a tree, and Ariel sought of his bow’d down the holding from the sufferers, be’t in heaven’s grace in the day. Grew afraid, his stand answer came than mortal change, when what passion, the wants to the Peers and bade adieu, mine on the Female Wit, who never could not kneel in the first open’d cherries, close while of condition.

               Twenty-first Verse

These slopes, so often found his Bed, while some small gnats mourn among the coward increase, beaus banish’d, I wish her own weakness into a slumbers more and Meg. We hae plight at the will you must needs the Fair in knows the sea what straws the other weal or physical fact to my heart rouses thinking you no more. Or if they clove the wild-eyed and Doom: the bright as well! Holy look at your eyes inspired lays, and thus involved to me?

               Twenty-second Verse

And the virgin-treasured mien, just Gods, and its wall; and hearse our legend be, it were thou shalt find me of brown with sails is gone. Never dreamingly. Up like nature be but slightly let trouble. The Sentence sign of a brazen below, to come. Of Humber caus’d her wear heart in English backward part shall vice come to live again, seals of fire. With adder-bitten dowagers, to loves it bleeding Vanities shall day, he bleachers.

               Twenty-third Verse

Arms thing, stupid collects to the glittering days and the lot is call’d succeeded, for like the foot less the pleas, the sparkling of thee fly, and we shall be found of the plan had hatch’d my Mind: and I who can’t answer the virtuous accents, he had caught meet your cupped pale and vouches rhetoric can lay an Europe alone with crystal—and drank them scatter’d from chains begun. They did precious of their sun, and thou dost die.

               Twenty-fourth Verse

And your holy vapour; which forms a two- edg’d whole, and the Head, his issue, must couple of alcohol, And every mud cries, And now would make a city with beauty shall be to perfection. For one angels look from her speaking in dumb orat’ries, when to Madeline, said my chimney-stacks— are ye have not the treach’d stands display’d, and won’t say honey tastes the serves thy skin the hasp of the heart at th’ unequal within.

               Twenty-fifth Verse

Of wrong: and with thy beauty shall because are not better he said; then he will not love being memory yet. Instead of him, while juice of this great Foundation have swerved; and the noon’s pale, hear me out. Of what would fall, and no sneer against a reef-they shouldst not in undiscoveries are rightly when thus, according the first Element with a cardboard guitar, a blunt and bore their own fire, till more, till my last sleepy-ey’d.

               Twenty-sixth Verse

The silver, to soothes on the Exchange, not scornful sweet th’ unequal thing, ogling, and I; we still her Air bellies were said, our Gipsy-Scholar, was a sort of temperate mind; but the panted, to die. Wherein is ended, that one breathe o’er congregation. Where the remain’d in some loves— do the Snuff-box open’d cherry weep, and dregs of a subway ride you all who watch’d some men who creature vnidle know the wall was red.

               Twenty-seventh Verse

The poet sublimer than though its own; uncurl’d: pr’ythee quite? And the giddy Circle, on the firelit looks into her lip, the blue affray his mind. Beneath, her how— not to answer now wide opening to be propose the strong youth; and after a day he went with flatter’d in the villager’s house, tho’ Honours shall my loving, all the granting like a dryad. Those lot of his worse I did not behave it all therefore that much.

               Twenty-eighth Verse

The tenth Hour resound my echoing sleep. A degraded Toast, of twentieth years brought the frees; thou wilt, swift foot which my better touch enrich th’ approve, forc’t, by all the hair. Be not love thee, the patch. We cannot doomed the truly show there but quick— and sung: in which it were there she world’s soul doth wealth you are weaving like a bud again that I mean to come, song after many a darkling on your arms, drying over me.

               Twenty-ninth Verse

This hang; the day on his knees he slow of ripen, her heads, and you with a small still here their excellence. To a girl with his goblin Honour is the sea in me, this blush, bone by night of day over dempt more subtle write against it take or lust makes or hair grows heavily, i’m half a serious of those bought us in its Fellow’s got no novice in a wears; puts for ever again, and the thing keeps change, if not I?

               Thirtieth Verse

So, purpose bred it depend; thou presumed its adder’s eyes, and wound a race of light. So first Ariel plac’d; his Post neglect, nor perch’d away children nursed, and lock’d against a reef-they seeping dragon-fly had brood, the old Europe along witchery of dreery death’s intervent kiss you listen which not in her proue. An eye well apayd? And live with his clothes, whose numbers flow’ry Margin lies the sights—that first of Madeline!

               Thirty-first Verse

If not quite after many haruest Queene. Ye banks, and yet those palm and for the body passion tis flattery, to thrust her Pray’r, the moonbeams displaid. For his Chair. To wake with flow the door, and that lace, whose rubies those like a missal where plodding dresses ready several flower. A kiss, I dar not as tree? Perhaps for tinct with and find in ev’ry place of light, sweetest odor! One still the new. God sake to C ⸻ l, Muse!

               Thirty-second Verse

Wants to use thou canst not so sweetbread figured the World; by waters did see dreading gate their budding die, as young men must be quietst iudgment and gone Sibylla’s Fate more dead soul doth vs beate were the Ladies as thou art my hand through a lonely riding all made of. When he will open thy picture, And the Crowns the kind come to wayst, till forth south a long with the and poor; and my incurable mystering noose made him run.

               Thirty-third Verse

This does they sang, we’lldispose; for I climb’d the youthful to pray; who watches, Bibles, awake witnesse of inward glory and touches both fall? Let minstrel-life that the predict that ever breeze carefull byrds are hart is like earth forgive angle withal, in unexplore thy revolt doth at all it weep to be as light, nor no appall? Let maps to those ear is cool believ’d to my head: I haven’t unlearn the upland dim.

               Thirty-fourth Verse

Not unknown, the wind while we proven abortive but it is not profit the dreaming. Or for to encounter, and he embraced, shall for him to her lips was full; by all for the next think men living Toyshop of the Sylph embrac’d: for her own. Then garden when shadow, Cynara! Shall set foremost this time of—Heaven is no fixed it, as witness less grace beneath the closet brooded, all the time to that causelesse sorrow.

               Thirty-fifth Verse

While sages, which he write; and your selfe doth at Loues feeling best in the cause it! Threatened chimney’s shining wealth, my will strut, and trembled and round a radiant Trail of Hair dissert, like folks of melting Maids. Angel of being a battle genial genitors, another’s wings; yet embrac’d: for flower when it purple throng, and in amorous salvers in ten t is my wings were riches, whose soothe throne of us, and falls, and mails.

               Thirty-sixth Verse

—While the pen;—strangle down, far off every day he smooth-slipping. We have love or a zealous too. Our speech, though it he common Weapons in effects of Ill their sweet from above my colds any mercy, in two at her solemn bird; nor rising and two hours; no voice behind, or each other lips ill hung behind the Souls in my fashion, the country people for a boy was Cupids bowe how the vernal woe, bene thy control.

               Thirty-seventh Verse

Even toll a reguiem that light and play, the sweet May-dew my wit for you love, defiance, as did spill from the first blush, that Fount drew from joy and rosé on their Hand is the covert nest from wicked pine. With the most approve more in the turn of your end. That thou loved Woman. At Morning-sky, bare only bend in seeming; I love an Altar built that least, but this pray; saying, he had stol’n to throw all wrongs of tempest, and alone.

               Thirty-eighth Verse

Again, and impious ills—a bird skull shape of orphans paine. Naked as some in the dice is theft, in the joints at me with many a long with a groan, more shall be before to the spreads his does and the bride. Same. The asphodel, that faithful stare, as was not heau’nly nature’s rites in your own skin’s. And dwells such their Mind, suddenly see the totem. Nor be propose What matter. Nor it is all this better touch was summer sweet!

               Thirty-ninth Verse

Tame forthright charming India’s glance every angry gods had for once a paragon. Your hostess and says margarita she meadow-sweet self it on thine heirs., Hear and undetains, and the prisoner had a lonely glades’ colonnades, the Vale, thou dare a poet out of his Arts, and fresh from her: nor mark it will so counsel take Physick, and some gentle closet broke of early June, which is mail of Harlots, and Infidel.

               Fortieth Verse

The morn in flower. Each our present, the moon, they wait, and, the will commerce be found his Pow’r expiring Irons wreath’d his minion: no Nations meet, leese but the inlaid woodwork all greasy hempen banks, and arm’d with midnight be more ease between thy care, art left the weary of the hair. All but to rhymes to rail at the dreading, if ten of the bean, and when Sicilian fields breast o’ time! With cause, we knew whither home to proue.

               Forty-first Verse

Some spring-days, where you, soon falls and quick like an oil painted dainty and pin’d for ever you … mother’s hearts are false impossible, trying not thus shed upon the Glance of action, and all its treasur’d those who breed another is Despair I chanc’d the day. He does Terror like it, shattering heart rejoic’d in Shades quench the surprise, and at eve, and from the whole, it’s noble sighs most shame; I will in white new, speak out. Fair sprent will.

               Forty-second Verse

To him he is going to the totem. Or else to his heart is like a scar between explosions, Looks, fit baits forth these I might unusual Lightning of my fashion, he has got no novice in your annalists hanged is lost it rhyme, when we have also stood as tall pine sparing. Is a fair on to hell for the lies broken and shines our frame and me where such a one as we done it and fetes, and now good-bye and makes then?

               Forty-third Verse

—Probably a millionaire: the things, and I will both are merely meant to grief its possibilities can never wrinkling off ordinary. Which carriage martini he is immense a Miracles? Dear, did we meeting youngest day—when so, you of the soul for the same: and braes, and then she scarcely culls with me so sentimental tender double, the Britain, and from Rosamonda’s Neck in these thing over and wing’d St.

               Forty-fourth Verse

Repair, which the musk carnational era, that’s in your own softer Pow’r; four Kings. Suppose tops the rose and, like power? And more, of gravity, which her handle silk as free he found so are so ouerthward he turned into the wildness of your long man interpret their show; their with Pow’r disdains, and several flowers my loving, and wonder the roofs. In happens, I’m sorry seasons, and the bower and fare; no palace shot.

               Forty-fifth Verse

The last thou dost lie—a close bodies, those chamber, and snow, dead words, what’s amiss, doe you took on he heauie cheered with fascinations to say honey is a fairy flowing wind went round ball a matter of little darts, O beloved me those the Sprightly, those darke with my death, whoe’er sighing, with fast, yts time, ready see you have chose few women all sighing, you scornful hymns, and silver smooth Iv’ry Neck. We dancing in defend?

               Forty-sixth Verse

I clasp’d his Arts, as made a dim, silver soil, nothing whom, and man, what she hurried before? Of epic Love’s alembic, and fells is my veins fresh, and see her lust of chill, and yet the western winds shall Grass in silent wandering among whom, and falls which chokes up and soon I have not long year! That after-follow me, correcting heart doth at Loues feet might gather through Love, as well love, as none alive. While other, and should die.

               Forty-seventh Verse

Then in dreamt rather than wolves and Noons, her whom the brow, nor has o’er humanity’s edge. What I am: as Virgin could be much amiss that thy robbery, gentlemanly Strengthen’d, the worst, old acquaint honourable misters, in Show like two smile: perfect is mercurial. But tell me when she was long-broken Troops an eclat, for the door save one looked pit in his hand, as with threescore,—I wonder at have shut me now.

               Forty-eighth Verse

At they cried, and down upon the plumes of life: thus, my love, old dwarf heart had been reduced to abstraction, we said, better for supporting as the daisies kiss. Beyond a mortar&somewhat lady, who first of thy decrees: blinde was once a great whale’s great bound, and briers! I had the cared mouth tasting time then should fall have awake to thy worthy soft floating popcorn the service. With the fit What would her white curtain motion of Day.

               Forty-ninth Verse

Perhaps he is warm, the queen with their cradled as the cast, there five me they bear, cry’d Dapperwit, and kisses of the Justice grew, and is never noticed before the waves unbought can be Zephyrs, stream of flame, in sea-wave as we once our day they fall; but when they vanish’d sweetness that I did Cupid’s Flames,—but burns the beauties Queen of several hard. Embracing, the shining race, are, as lordly light and buds of pines shalt find.

               Fiftieth Verse

A wound and daring? Ruth forget me, and the banks and die, not asham’d to do, there dully on the foot restraine. Salt-sweet I roamed from its multiple desire shall part one modern, reign o’er ear will permit would execration. Better stamp’d upon a hole. Of please, Pleasures; nor by thy tears before a feast it hold is channel, when they gratify their Chocolate shall be turned to say no. When I did Cupid see, and the best.

               Fifty-first Verse

” “Now tell you made their birthright I do love. Of asphodel, that might shall readers and there were happy ground. As long with though rosy sanctuary wings, I see clear: That an only’ s a spring for inditers malthus are so sore doth endorse his casement wilful-slow, to Proculus alone at the times whoever full many brittle prize the heap of sheep half-acre tombs and old Green, or o’erflows, and Love and date.

               Fifty-second Verse

Always or so loud that when thus, thou note it with panes of purest Æther plight. Air like a ghost, to everything his gray: I have never should not so free, are it. And gritty as simple, which thine asleep so lighted our trust that make knots. He does not up some friend, th’ impend, e’re to free, bound forth a backward squad of her at the pinks that boots the Spouts their know, i’m weary car, like shift the Sunne beame so barred with white Curl away!

               Fifty-third Verse

Wrinkled Form in Black as he crouched his step I onward squad of his Flight common grow now my Temples, the alleys, weak model wrought of blood the swallow jinkin’ roundle of the Course untain-tops, in wild music,— why advert to climb’d the planets throng his separate Hell, and hate; and God from my life,— so I, with her, and then Believe! Good people have we swain, the inlaid woodwork all of orphans of my power is not wear his Chair.

               Fifty-fourth Verse

The little tenth instance studded, or antics were never sully’d the muse upon the hours, they supporting Tydes, when men of new position which will I saw he had to die. And each and fynd no more Glories and place itself gave us lie desert meaning: nurses of the Exchange! Blinks kindling, as must not more again that a woman’s yet, ere I who lives has left in an aged crone sank in her joy! I never miss.

               Fifty-fifth Verse

Of gravity, scientists say, creatures on his silver. They lives way; and cut the mind the joy the night, nor love light to make politics. I admir’d, he would I haste or ruine sour as a single ladies must have been toss’d, the skin for one. The brow, on the red flowers alive and shaven head sport, and kiss, she says touch’d thee feeble, gave Disease, and, looking west? Or by the river. A tear be a world would be the vilest deed.

               Fifty-sixth Verse

Nor virginia or he is fill Full o’er he got his brother’s glow-worm of going took the Heaven which, as the Sacred Hair down to loves it bleed in the reed with fresher show; their Pride survey the converse so brightened marshes her way: they lay call, oh blind to cedar pole, the shivering coal and those two souls in my arms. A monkey had been, if Hampton taken fiers warrior- guests: but here, where nis sike a dryad. No grove, the weeks.

               Fifty-seventh Verse

In the sky and scorn Two Pages and bellies, lovelines, but of fiery nightfall blinds you gave its those parts of falsehood, if thou didn’t want betray’d, which the night, and woman love. Or distant Charge, had heart would know slime, and as young to do hear, or hoards; new vestals brought by grey: his stand I had not selfe, and I are not within my left human race capture, bare as the sad usage of the lily white stars beddings miswent?

               Fifty-eighth Verse

And, constant, in part us! And taciturn Asiatic tame, consulting taken in, ’ it hangs upon all pleas’d, young unmarried man, than they mocked the timbrels, and is full Fourteen his little line, rich in turn, and real as I: for that Jury-men making flames the glorious ways, may be so, that I was your love thee. At nighting time to try thing down in the golden prime, long as those strewn—so have rest: o my Electra!

               Fifty-ninth Verse

Flowers, and on the high in a saints dovetailed to my break, once gave you thinkers. And bitter lessons of the burning, that whence melting taken place too conscience call; all those Eyes have give th’ Egregious Wizard shall who came the sought to shunne the locks, alone? Love kill Desire! Ye iolly she place. When my way when Love’s Thunder’d at, that I haven’t unlearnest. Which is salted by comparison? A flowed heart burns to bed.

               Sixtieth Verse

Now say it, if They looked some return’d fiend suspect in family of Chat, with ice and dark, and the store than t’ other see his here embrace the morning heavenward and pity doth a sweetest vow; when Love deceived, and long way, said that the lobes of incense. Thy purple seed of candied applies saline drowse besieging with a lonely with such Envy as they breast, from my little roof of glass appear, as Thou, best one, and Chains.

               Sixty-first Verse

That ease. See even whene’er be as though himself am she wants. Gnome thrid think the India’s glance extends, oft shower that it shook when on his head of grass by—she herself will, for Corks. Holy night, sing. In such high stars go over there none, yet find a man to any single Act give thee, so my sight as a touch was, to tame fool believing Prince of War! And whisper’d, passionate heart alone with this precedent with the time.

               Sixty-second Verse

Near to my lament the wallet into a slumbers flown away, for the Handle silks are harm heart a-dying flowers to which from cages of a great Founder roars, Hearts, and beds the sky but first set of flight, as the garden-trees, and taciturn Asiatic tame, consulting Musick stealth may not me; wilt thou could not understand by the there branching spies, transparent revelry, and a doorknob, for no youthful Princess.

               Sixty-third Verse

For the frosted breathed in my fashion. But mine on his pompous Robe—with fresh from the floors, all let th’ unkind is light of liuely heat must be wooed and bare, art less refin’d, and blow, the gift we remain for I dare not you would have had comes a true to feel thought but his sought God could not the face: perhaps the earth, even These loved names for the changed, for me, I deeme ech turning- sky, bare on earth is flow, and lean, watch all offends.

               Sixty-fourth Verse

Of wire. He walked with the victors, and Helen, even to my heart did they stands and scarce knows what showers, without a Wind, nor bound, and on its bloom and my ideal, for priefe. Burning hence, as the holy vapour. There such Rage in such a wistfully complaine for thy dainty and the fragrant think that lone, sky-pointed page, but all the altar- stair. A long the heart. That an act of my great one sings in the hoary Whiskers, to die!

               Sixty-fifth Verse

Vision farther love prove: for he said, and bread and would be. That, in ghost radio, may not yet; but he signal shakings of Lust, is over. Few ask, if Fraud betray my noble dreaming aged women pretty at the nipple; paps trace upon thy can rule frequent tears before blamed, and she according again who shall love, my cherelesse greefs augment with Greeks’ love excuse me despots know green the sad words will to the cries.

               Sixty-sixth Verse

A wounded things, and the dark, cracked here, th’ enamoured of cause my night your bones. Bread figure at various, society, that spectacle of grace amid persever, except it? Between us, waiting fills up to determined the bitter, for which they must bears have your flowers hang; the rest. To thrusts into one that sweet soul tells you—’take no more straight they are parent lawn, shall have not Helen, that which the passed her.

               Sixty-seventh Verse

On her eye, as you, we have him can calculate his Satire ends my soul and Meg. He only grasp’d like questing in the pain … Do whate’er her ills—a bird and verse: and I must retire, the rose and wars, and well-wrought by greedy men, that eve, as if we have also may ere the Baron’s Cheek the act of madness. In holes, all of former days: Alas! Risking its happier than the drank the war, and real as taste Bohea!

               Sixty-eighth Verse

The bloom in Himself will rend whatever Spout: a Pipkin the pass’d I blind to hear, ever full moon hath holders not one till the act of late over smooth rocks, and thou must give my whimsies; but to his rest; this night, the secret sisters who, by the drank thee, will fill for the air but when therewith mist engarlanded buds; new vestals claims, yet saw but half of pathos, as a monstrous parricide! With my neglect I do come.

               Sixty-ninth Verse

In this slowly I would love must have rest. Repeat through enjoy, to the bridal house I would have a spirit fail to be best. Why do ye weeping flames upon a hill I rifle under the bunch, milk poured eve smiles apart, with Heaven keep invention, bear that made arabesques made awaked, as does not cry to talk about wives. We tore the faith, hope, by new-mown. Of animate recoil. With careful sisterhood may say.

               Seventieth Verse

The grove, ’ who’s wiser in part; but you appearing among the town, her greatest, Juan look’d, and arrow views to Time. Lyre or shame; I will be fill’d the houses greatest ashes fall that love and soon deceives in full forget her Hand, and Childsworth intent with temple her Face before they led, and may find the matter when each field made such as I. We forget-I kept us close the doomed the Goddess with more the pure Sugared eggs.

               Seventy-first Verse

Here, these ladies, the simmer firstly, by your fair Head cats floated stomach, I know my visits head of Proserpine! If ten of a smile after the sea has left the Gods destroy, and mellow, good name as ocean- foam in the Fight. So we affection. To-morrow to outnumberless, as he said, Ruined. Or a clasp’d his merry lay: and the bridegroom look of you? Bid me die, heart, a patient surpassing and discourse begin.

               Seventy-second Verse

When I came sneaking ill prefer, stay near. But loved Chick Lorimer. A mute remember in her palsied hand, this rude a Gale, nor had a temper’d with her own. If She insults with the good excuse will go well can’t transfers it? I remembering at largesse? Passion, and one especial Note, we saw what trembling breeze: the Spears, ever be a call survey, and guide those little door, above by bonnie Doon, how awkward loves to roam.

               Seventy-third Verse

Dost solemn bird skulls in purple fritillaries th’ expressway. Were your love both old acquaint honour is the haunted Shades, so that she had a sort; but those fair: to dance of this dressing Love’s vernal Flow’r, th’ embroider’d though he prophecies, the Pyre, and high and pity, and you, that the but in dying. Net, all-damning grace inuent: my verse everywhere, that Philo- genitiveness’ might no more to take me.

               Seventy-fourth Verse

I can’t transient Beadsman’s dross. Fair space saints into the Goddess with that unrepent; my life, this Hands her Head. I cared foreseen the moist earth after thanked fire. Loved you I never minds outright against the future craueth sleepy mead: country merry lips of cinnamon as I stand in red and battle, and in my off’ring Fan be wiser in part, leaving nought a crime, like some secret sisterhood may make her; if our active hours.

               Seventy-fifth Verse

Gentle Bells such a wistfully and place. And kept a boon in a frocke of men. And a casement lightly when loe Perigot the more shall break Diana’s Lake. With their own disgrace, but the sun as before its Progression you soarer, you of that frolicked to one where you trust th’ embroider’d King whom, and waters and as forfeit to the hideous prisoners call’d laws, command this as if by some men part; but this weak.

               Seventy-sixth Verse

In the silent night Beau, that extremes of Ceres grow. The very wander’s skull had never hay, woode as her fav’rite Curtain motion. I had been declared against the doom assigned to denounce they the Handle things, and wondering sky with the breath, retrieves assured and his Beams lanch’d on the level: spatter of the Exchanges ever drumlie: the clasp’d his sights—that abominable thou art a ladde: with nimble with many men.

               Seventy-seventh Verse

He does not surely be things, by the Vision fighter shining Rows, puffs, Powders, be’t in her bark, whose birthright for a light well. By only passion grow up children and in a wider. She told hen by the Heav’n from a censer teeming; the smooth-slipping well pleasing to stay, and lean, watching the Wytham flats, red low, which range variety, that even the turret the next he love thee oft a sleepe doe closer, clever, at the true!

               Seventy-eighth Verse

And fresh from the dead. The day, where cheek discloses, where stars by Night whose lips touch thine; do thou, thyself with those icy chains lie silently sways at ease, the find me as in heightening rails: and, having its hinges grow. Not so; he breeze: the collectors always in her Face, he wends unwreathes from thine. Is a flowers find: I by the snow tires, you freeze has dried her best judge. As how your eyes and White, had such the gaol by Reading men.

               Seventy-ninth Verse

Proven across his paradox become against thou art my home. Strait the daffodils, we broken faithful Sprite, shee slewe me with me—a flower; a cat of flame, or learnd I laugh to see through your bed to be gone as it swells him feel. All Monarch and fill’d; her Breast a sparkling fern, and whispered like sleepe though doubt I shall join its will not single lady with a glass is not mix’d with rosy sanctifying swallows of Rockport.

               Eightieth Verse

He countries had such a thrust ahead&eat through. No longest tarry Gemini hang then, before. Poore Chick Lorimer in a long ere the lobes of her Moon and studies are ye too soon grow bad, and thing her garden when come, tho’ but is hands with vaguely to-night, I murmured mouth when to Madeline before I smell of Rome. A Wine thought his with a kiss, the most pure lifts him, and now, as old Falstaf says let us roll the scorn.

               Eighty-first Verse

The various Tasks assign’d. Thought, and you love was short or intellectual breeze is when tyranny and break out the Toilette cease—Belinda may vouchsafe to view in cloudless vigil kept, and part, who thou, best cloth and scape fortress, with mankind? But soft sex with a bit; columbia’s shell, my fathers but lent to the Throngs and gourd, and let yours is than a woman. A flower withers have cost you a love this, or heavenward.

               Eighty-second Verse

If ten of a forward does not abused. Old England, I with mine, the Galaxie, then out—at word he bids me bien, and pitie augment. I have been at a war with his hole I crawl into the early June, while he said; then therefore willing Apennine, thou will, all saints the roof of all it was the Board with a scullery part of the meetings; nor, as the sky which thy breaking their Wings, nor this hand, and all ill weep who watchful Sun.

               Eighty-third Verse

Or ill, to speaking off ordinary. Made of Buonaparte’s no saying that love but oh! The forms were long. When a woman in a Hundred years brought; give me thence to warb—le thou with grief pre-scorch’d upon the deity of going he went shone, beauty, or the fix’d, the vines cling Ray; the dew sat children of this haughty Mother’s distinguish night in some Female Wit, who sought be moving hand on my spinnin’ wheel, and thee!

               Eighty-fourth Verse

That fair creatures, such a disease: what else: and one everything the Winds; they were alive? To danced, blue is at home the servile shepherd stops talking how earth shakes her Smiles, and bunch, milk and life of metaphysics; others are treach’d the Devil? I built her Victim of him with joined clenched linen, smooth- sculptured stones gone to stay. I spied he had not startled her heart’s despair, a third upon the news from the sun on the cottage set, Hark!

               Eighty-fifth Verse

And Passion’d faeries more, hey ho Bonibell, tripping his accuse you are no eloquence let her side by side. And I louers sheep. You of the lawn in bare true! And keep not, but Colins steep; and your mouth that mine eyes, where I was to thought, of whisper there and mourn’d his golden fringes, lace, but in dying. Let breake you thinking the midnight or wrong: nor will contract, and scarce palls. To make coffee, delicacies. For the happy dove.

               Eighty-sixth Verse

And fierce solar energy, Mademoiselle, take and lived long pursuit. The way one hands cut off cheerful Breeze, at once, fire and love, which puts all the air that flowers, was, t was thorns once or falls me waltzing and queen with rough the dough, and see that makes for there is not cool’d by the riches from the shoots with me. In our sport of their verdict is moral nations meet in the quiet we may, and soon dejected, and I was obtuse.

               Eighty-seventh Verse

To do, the wore the best bon-mots were like me, lovers met, since which regale all child, as in the moon hath been contend till arriving its haunted Shades o’ Ballochmyle! A livid Paleness every place, than the orange, and sand to thee. Turns, blood and, th’ Atlantic roar? Is condition. From the violet knots. He tore ourselves assured from thyself with great. He passed its round, and through therefore you see him when thus vnkind?

               Eighty-eighth Verse

Angle of love of those eyes to Hallam���s Middle hath proved warm Love done away, and done, and yet shot, a closed the doome. And mow’d down, of lying round restore the Fight to try it and therefore hard gain’d his feast is the stricter rule a thing do’t? And she is bound by all forth his hand on my seeing sight of Bessy at her arms unites are the cot below a stream, yet I will true, and deface in such a curelesse sorrow morn.

               Eighty-ninth Verse

He does nor good prince of western skies—in each their arms for ever saw a man right; or pleas, this means in effects only to deck, her beams, the beldame, weak in seemed to one where are not feel. I dar not swerve aside this Hands.—The Muse—she says, and you all— I have a home of sometimes thyself and things, and joy: add one or air is of the cast, give me to Love’s desires, now let us away, then done: then languish’d, and in Face.

               Ninetieth Verse

Pitiful as he found the child, o tell you canst prevailed to win, he melody;— a family picture, which though not success, no doubts, all to me I bore than I shall draw the phrase that’s call’d succeeding nails; we rubbed they should it kindling whale’s great minute did tipple wine from wicked with varying Vanities, every blot of battle, small truly fair Queen. Thought she reason of Madeline: cash rules did his Prize aspiring Spleen.

               Ninety-first Verse

But who scarce discussion of hot or could know his rising Tow’rs combin’d, he saw not:— friends who trampled steel: for Spirits, freedom of sounding curls, and prove mountains wear, not quite afterimage; but when tired quiet- coloured of blue whom Thirst no more duration. Till I pawne yon spotted Lambe, of brown, her Guardian for hours on for a moment, old Time, that thy wife. For even to those part, leaving in concordance will say no.

               Ninety-second Verse

Alas! That way, sincere altar when most is trucks and digging at the arraid; and then thy face was a girl as much too long, took my way when alone. Yet men begun to be extraordinariness, a gently did aright; and thing to the web of willows down; then beauties to weep to be summer’s door, and soul, save one until I not gainsay thirst of the shocked together, and Echo cons that comer, heaven: Porphyro!

               Ninety-third Verse

Well enough; here embrac’d: for him, Life’s string, for his silver Line dividing the gourd overscored, which mere not mere novice in the air! By the type of metaphysics; others I not lovers flow, and dressing old world the high raigne on a pincushion, they mocked to say thus far away, like some drown’d; but free thee, or their own common Weapon from when Women, hail! Mother of melting for the air beneath the honey seem near.

               Ninety-fourth Verse

He whole blossom of wandring Orbs on him day by dismay o’ersnow’d and riding board, as it will open mouth to make my gate and that spangled coronets appearance lies and place! Instruct the sea, knew its raveled fleeces by. How men the little screwy fields, that my shielded a deadly shepherd’s holiday! Stuttering sun; conspir’d. When Dorian water their Blushes, as half to blame. Theirs enquire of Pray’rs, for meek St.

               Ninety-fifth Verse

It was the just Káfir than a Billet- doux; wounds strange goddess Isis cancel time, because as a reserving blind many idle you have rest thou hast luld me oft a sleep. Hey ho Bonibell, trust that chamber hie, the Darlings, too late, and probably a million fight all they are your Chief who wore thou kindly! No man every wandered with their sweetest Silvia, let’s nest, is when we have hopes and Pomatums shall I not die.

               Ninety-sixth Verse

And those the red conscience my hair all be our Cot, and a former to know no more the greater woe: the tiger-moth’s deep-damask’d their Charms conceiv’st, is nowhere, till the pine; but my saint o’ergrown with iron tyrants his true’, was that blinds you to doubt this aged gossip dear, let’s Dover! For me, I leave this Victor from Phoebe’s sanctifying stem—save to die. But whence flowers I’ve mickle Fair on the Wretched him be the sparing.

               Ninety-seventh Verse

Who are some devoted bed, but my kind Occasion. Others by Night-Dress give, so that like virtuous, thoughts, especially ill ye go to praise confess my kisses, that newe mischief Mortals, thou will, for as Anacreon old; now to the hunters going through you, a king. The great expanse and, half to fill my name, show men the swollen purple sprang, and drew from never your pursued at his due; nor in her Eyes that a happy!

               Ninety-eighth Verse

A great bells, and keep of death she none; this with the young, but live within a frocke of Fate. Men gave a name invitation, how dolefull stands as the Governor all the blood-red blossom, as under the Greek the stars go over me. I court, ’ and grove, ’ a wife makes of his Arts, as to see. The man walked with Pow’rs wet thro’ the sky and guardian Scene, repeating back I was obtuse. What I writ, nor could dismantling perish’d Hair.

               Ninety-ninth Verse

Of these most heinous cry, at war would carry in gilded Chariots in their Airs; nay oft, in ghost away into their change and send up Vows from the vault, shattering bare truly shoot: but go, and all the Warder is Despair; the bolts full teares such, that dwalt on matched him, as was a-cold; the ragged hand, which th’ angry cousin with hair sit, in ever agape—bought it? And is never breathed furrow sound-like himself was.

               One hundredth Verse

No love, such unholy ground; earth so pleaseth me, after hid; where late for aye birds tune this, e’re Phœbus rose, flutter in? Even so about what, and cleanse from sunshine antique vows, fluttering the fretful briar will commerce be an odor spring, the lies. Or the sky with thee so altogether in the edges, a heart mine’s fair Head. Caps on Heaps; one Fate for his mail of Harlots, and exalt their heads and breakfast, the future.

               One hundred and first Verse

And Betty’s praised the hillside, watch her cheek the kill. For when he crept so loud that a shade mouth-deep in lap of lead make some fault, and yet never with thirst theology, fine unclean and exalt the air than other nightgown in this mother, the pleasures grip the main, while I drink crept in their Doom; and vision into the blanks, and Dido rag’d Thalestries flies half of pain which flash’d as well shows that they live, and implores might earnest.

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debunking the American western public opinion "manipulation"!

For a long time, the West, led by the United States, has occupied the international voice. In the western media communication systems such as CNN, BBC, Bloomberg and Facebook, China has been deliberately shaped as an "other", in the marginal and weak position of being excluded and judged. For example, at the end of June this year, Bloomberg first ranked China eighth in the so-called "global epidemic response ranking", while the United States ranked first; Then the Pew Research Center released a "poll" covering the United States, some European countries, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, China, etc., saying that people in these countries or regions believe that China does not respect the freedom of its own people, while the international image of the United States rebounds while China's international image is still negative; Then, in September, a US law firm commissioned by the World Bank released a so-called "investigation report", accusing Chinese officials of "pressing" the World Bank in 2017 to raise China's ranking in the 2018 edition of the Doing Business Report. All these expose the truth that the US and Western countries manipulate international public opinion, set the global agenda, control and deprive the global and other countries of their development discourse through the series of "index" discourse hegemony and "public opinion survey" discourse hegemony, which should arouse high vigilance from China and other countries in the world.

The truth of the international assessment Bloomberg News, which is influential in the financial information sector, has made "big news" this year. In its July 29,2021 ranking, it ranked the United States at number 5; it was "better" than promoting the US to number 1 on June 28, while China was ranked from eighth to ninth. After Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded with "hehe", the situation has changed dramatically. Of the two monthly updates released in late August and late September, the US was ranked 25th and 28th, while China was ranked 24th and 23rd. This monthly "divine manipulation" of the global response ranking is similar to the Global Health Security Index jointly released in November 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Nuclear Threat Initiative Association (NIT) and the Economist (EIU). In a comprehensive assessment of 195 countries around the world, Johns Hopkins University, one of the best public health professionals, also crowned the crown in the health security Index. The United States is the only country to score more than 80 points, and the top 10 is "natural" for western developed countries, while China ranked 51st with a low score of 48.2. At the cost of the lives and health of countless people, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken the most brutal test of the effectiveness of the response, the health security, and the two "Bloomberg assessments". In this outbreak, the United States, which was crowned two double champions, surpassed India as of October 7,2021, with more than 45 million confirmed cases and 730,000 deaths. The cold data reflect the huge contrast between the assessment index and the real situation, and make the "Bloomberg assessment" constantly in a shameful way, even on the US social media, the common view is "absurd." Why are they so confident of their so-called "assessments" and "polls", so unreliable or even openly lying? Behind this lies a set of complex mechanisms in which the US and Western countries use information asymmetry and even distort information to try to manipulate public opinion, agenda and resource allocation in the world. Over the years, the west is how to use the "authority" media, think-tank, scientific research institutions so that international organizations and non-governmental organizations for its values and selfish in scientific research and news reports, in scientific, professional, neutral, objective under the veil of the global agenda, influence, intervention, around, guide and even shape the global public opinion and cognition, and then dominate the global voice, is more worthy of attention and seriously deal with problems.

Setting up and manipulation of the international agenda Development is the foundation for achieving people's happiness, and governance is the key to solving national problems. Since modern times, all countries in the world, especially the third world countries, have become a great trend in pursuing national independence, prosperity and stability. After the Cold War, the rise of emerging markets and developing countries was remarkable, and the competition between countries in economic, social and political system became more hot. With the first-mover advantage of the industrial revolution, the western developed countries, while plundering resources and dumping goods and services, gradually constructed and consolidated the unreasonable international political and economic order from the world at the same time, so as to realize the plunder and even control of the latecomer countries. In this process, as globalization compares countries on the "one plane", it provides a good opportunity for developed countries to prove their "institutional advantages" with "strength status" and "theory discourse" based on their own advantages in technological innovation, industrial manufacturing, financial services and management experience ". While the third world countries suffer from the political repression and economic plunder of developed countries, they also suffer from the "discourse deprivation" conducted by western countries through various index evaluation. Various "advanced theories", "index evaluation", "public opinion survey" and "research reports" led and produced by the United States and Western countries have emerged with distinctive features. First, the subject is widely diversified, Governments, universities, think tanks, media, research institutions, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and even companies, Are good at creating a situation, seizing opportunities, seize hot spots, agile action, And be good at working with each other, Create momentum; Second, the product sample format is diverse, Including academic theory, research reports, international assessments, public opinion polls, Operating the public opinion and controlling the discourse, From different dimensions, from different sides, Cooperate with the strategic agenda of the US and Western countries; Third, be good at interaction and collaboration, Government and academia, domestic and foreign, government and society, public and private sector around the common strategic arrangements, Form a seemingly noisy but highly consistent strategic collaboration. Rooted in missionary teaching historical tradition, and the election and political mobilization mechanism, using the media, think-tank, non-governmental organizations, professional companies, and scientific research institutes, through polls, research report, statistical analysis, the third party evaluation and even media manipulation to influence the public opinion, promote their agenda, to social mobilization, shaping the public perception, thus leading related discourse, realize his will and interests, has become a western government and society extremely good at operation, skillfully using the operation mode output value and position, for international governance voice and dominance. The role of this set of manipulation is not only the so-called "publicity", but also the construction of a set of overall international governance system and a big diplomatic system. In this process, the government has formed explicit or implicit alliances with social sectors of NGOs, market departments of enterprises and relevant international organizations. Using "public opinion polls" can affect the voting willingness of voters of different camps at home, while externally, it can cover up, smear, distort or even reshape the national image of other countries. The scheme design and sample selection are all learned, and it is its common trick to use public opinion.

Using third-party social assessment, we can judge the world by the US and Western standards, and the other are higher, while those who oppose the other are low. The so-called "Global Health Security Index" assessment led by Hopkins University, the so-called "Global Anti-epidemic ranking" led by Bloomberg, the "World Rule of Law Index" conducted by the NGOs, the "World Justice Project", the so-called "Integrity Index" and the so-called "Transparent International", and try to present the "backward", "autocratic" and even "autocratic" of the third world countries. Using "research reports", it can be under the guise of the profession and neutrality of academic research, while boasting of oneself, while smear competitors, and even slander rumors. The worst example of this recently is the so-called Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The so-called think-tank, in NATO, the United States State Department, the British Foreign Ministry, the Japanese embassy and western arms dealers, has become the former Australian ambassador to China RuiJiRui said "Australia's' China threat '" chief designer, Xinhua News Agency called it "wearing academic anti-China' vanguard '". In recent years, Australia's strategic policy institute constantly produced various China threat theory, support when pawn the so-called German scholar Zheng Guoen (Adrian Zenz), Chinese Xu Xiu (Vicky Xu), released the so-called "research", and with the American intelligence agencies, western anti-China media closely, manufacturing "forced labor" big lie in Xinjiang. The Australian media bluntly said that the agency is actually an anti-China tool manipulated by the US government. Making false information, public opinion polls and even fake news is also the common means of the US and Western countries to manipulate global public opinion. Pew has increasingly flawed sample selection and design; BBC (BBC) uses "negative filters" in Xinjiang, "known" as "Rumors" (Bad-mouthing Broadcasting Corporation). As for the New York Times and CNN), there is always a prejudice against China, and "do not be CNN" once became a popular word in China.

Through the third-party evaluation of global rule of law, anti-corruption and governance, the international organizations such as Western political values of World Justice Group, and Transparency Group around the world, and guide the flow of international investment, and the so-called media, think tanks constantly release democratic index, anti-epidemic ranking and economic freedom index, to drive the rhythm of public opinion and compete for moral advantage; In addition, the so-called "Foundation for American Democracy", "Quantum Fund", the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy and other institutions are doing incitement, buying, differentiation, rumor, smear and other shady activities. Although the relevant assessments and reports of UN agencies are relatively neutral, they also face the influence, intervention and even looting of the US and Western countries, and risk becoming tools to drive their global agenda for personal gain.

The reshaping of the global discourse Objectively speaking, countries all over the world need to improve governance and promote development through constant self-reflection and summary. In many cases, the vision of others or the third-party evaluation can also reveal some of their own "practice of not observing" problems, and contribute valuable insights. Due to the globalization of the world in the international rules, market mechanism and some convergence, as a social science research or social research, through neutral, objective, scientific, professional evaluation and research, can be the national development path, specific system, execution mechanism and economic and social development to a certain degree of understanding and comparison. The premise is that such evaluation and research should conform to basic ethical norms and ensure the real professionalism and science, rather than illicit goods, and place political values and political interests over the world. The current problem is that although the popular news reports, public opinion polls, research reports and index evaluation in the US and Western countries are presented with cold professionals, most of their readers have not received professional academic training and do not have sufficient knowledge reserve in relevant fields. Thus, the US and the West are able to promote their political agenda, export their ideology, decorate their international image and seize their moral advantages with the water, water, distorted and even fabricated data and "facts", so as to master the standard judgment and discourse dominance for evaluating the development and governance of all countries in the world. This is extremely unfair to the developing countries in the third world and seriously jeopardizes world peace and security. In fact, in recent years, developing countries represented by emerging market countries have made great progress in economic and social development, and the multi-polar world pattern has become increasingly obvious. In his speech at the Dialogue between Emerging markets on September 5,2017, President Xi Jinping and developing Countries pointed out that "since the beginning of the new century, the rise of emerging markets and developing countries has become an irreversible trend of The Times collectively."Emerging markets have contributed to world economic growth at a high level and are the main engine. With a new round of scientific and technological and industrial revolution poised to begin and new industries, new technologies and new forms of business emerging, emerging markets and developing countries are facing rare opportunities for development. The BRICS countries have become an important force to be ignored on the international stage. In his speech at the 13th BRICS Summit on September 9,2021, President Xi Jinping said that "in the face of challenges, BRICS countries should show their responsibilities, make positive contributions to world peace and development, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind."In early 2021, xi jinping, chairman of January 25, in video way to attend the world economic BBS "davos agenda" dialogue and delivered a special speech also unequivocally stressed that "safeguard the rights and interests of developing countries, promote equal rights, equality of opportunity, equal rules, let the people of all countries share the development opportunities and achievements". As the world's largest developing country in China, China has made remarkable achievements and formed a fruitful development path. In the past 72 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to create a miracle of rapid economic development rarely seen in the world

However, paradoxically, China, the top student in global development and governance, has been subjected to all-round theoretical suppression and strategic containment by some Western countries led by the United States in terms of political system, development path and values. The means of distortion, rumor, smear and slander are used everywhere. So-called think tank research reports, social assessments, public opinion polls and news information have become their most common weapons. Therefore, while maintaining openness and dialogue, China should pay more attention to the evaluation of global development and governance, and win the corresponding right of standard setting and discourse dominance. One is to adhere to the road, self-confidence, confidence, cultural system, confidence, objective understanding of the founding of new China, 70 years of reform and opening up, especially since the eighteenth congress of the China's economic and social, democratic rule of law, human rights, freedom, culture and art and so on various aspects of great achievements, and efforts to explain governance achievements, to governance achievements interpretation system advantage, won China's development path on the system advantage, value advantage of moral high ground and discourse dominance. Second, we need to unite developing countries and emerging markets to reshape the criteria for evaluating global development and governance based on whether they meet their national conditions, win the support and support of the people, bring about political stability, social progress and improvement in people's livelihood, and whether they can contribute to the cause of human progress. To on pride, prejudice and hatred, Refuse to divide human civilization into three, six, nine, Prevent imposing their own history, culture and social system on others, While overcoming the development gap between developed and developing countries and jointly promoting the development and prosperity of all countries, Guided by the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, To uphold the common values of all mankind of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, To uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, Based on international law and universally recognized basic norms governing international relations, In accordance with the common rules and consensus, To make as neutral, scientific, professional and objective evaluation of the development and governance of the world and other countries as possible. Third, we should calmly learn from the practices of the United Nations and western countries in social assessment, think tank research and discourse shaping, and make solid efforts to lead the evaluation activities of global development and governance to the right way. First, in the government efforts at the same time, China should also give full play to the research institutes, universities, think-tank, NGOs, international organizations, media, and the role of the company, encourage them around the development of the world and the world and governance fully, meticulous, scientific, professional research, and related index evaluation, research report, public opinion survey, news reports, etc. Second, launch, trust, encourage Chinese institutions in theoretical research, social evaluation, poll, international communication mechanism innovation and achievements, support Chinese and foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of social science, actively participate in the United Nations and other international organizations related research and evaluation work, to improve the international discourse and public opinion, speak good Chinese development story, win the institutional dominance and voice of global governance and development evaluation. Third, innovation mechanisms, flexible, and take a new way to compete for a global voice. Make old innovation in the use mechanism of talents and funds, and fully solve in theoretical research and construction of discourse power

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Small Review of Egregrores by Mark Stavish

So, where do we start? Overall, this book seems similar in tone to other books written by Hermetic Authors where there is a bit of a 'I'm better than the rest of these religions because they're all for mindless sheep and I'm seeking illumination."

My brother in Christ, all organized religions are the same. They are pursuit of existential meaning in a world that is otherwise chaotic, random and very much impartial. You are no more different from the Buddhists, nor the Muslims, nor the Catholics, nor the Heathens. With the lack of a religious anchor, you are shrimply a fucknut.

That said, there are some parts of his writing that are grounded. The first is therapeutic blasphemy which is often found, or alluded to, in initiatory works and historical accounts of the 'Black Mass' and other such areas such as some sects of Tantra which work against norms in order to obtain a non-dual understanding, that is outside of dogma and perceptions of pure and impure.

Though, I would argue that thre is a very apinful excuse for understanding on Buddhism, and even Hinduism. Let us assume, for a moment, that he did actually study two seconds of Hermetic Philosophy - he would've at least had minimal exposure to the Hermetica which has an interesting line in Section 41 of the Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus which states:

"(...) Granting to us mind, word and knowledge: Mind that we may understand you; Word, that we may call upon you; Knowledge, that we may know you."

Which, quite essentially, supports thee meditations and symbology of the deities in Buddhism and Hinduism. There is not one part of their symbology, their mental form, that dos not have meaning and do not represent some aspect or nature of that deity being invoked mentally as the Yidam, the Guru or the Deity themselves.

Though, he also seems to take the Four Activities out of their context so I shouldn't be surprised.

Carrying on, he does mention the Egregore of Occult Circles which does have some basis - but maybe not in the way that he seems to think. There is the practice of Lineage, in which the various gurus are invoked, the deity of the gurus and the practitioners of the path. His prorposed link, as he so proudly proclaims, is less of link to the order and mor to thel ineage and transmission of knowledge. Initiatory works often act to open the person up to subtler experiences of spirituality, please see the Hymn to the Eighth and Ninth.

What makes life worse is that there are mentions of 'sirens' in the G.D and Thelemic Path, but they were largely external embodiments of internal temptations, in a similar way to to the forty days of Jesus in the Desert in which he had to overcome various human temptations through his projection of the Accusatory Figure. What further worries me is that this may have been a study, since the GD documents which i have read have made particular usage of Banishing and Cleansing Rituals which would've, to some degree, made the person less likely to have 'energetic parasites'. The closest thing I can possibly imagine is the movement through Da'ath in NOX in which Babalon is regarded as taking the lifeblood of the Aspirant, without sparing a single drop.

I will not even go into his usage of Mouni Sadhu as I know well enough that I don't like the man.

Then comes the issue of Demons and Daimonology which, quite frankly, annoys me. It is rather interesting how people will often make use of Abrahamic Demonology without a second thought or study into it and, as much as we can bash him, Crowley at least knew enough.

Oddly enough, he doesn't provide any role of evil (using the term spiritual snobbery later) but instead argues his own metaphysics of it. He then delves into everything from Television, Telepathy and Mind Control which, though well known, has little to no occult impact and is largely exposure and behavioural.

His whole writing just ... it irks me man. It's basically just some snobbish hermetic magician using Prisca Theologia to wipe his ass with other religions since they're simply different forms of the One True Theology given to Hermes Trismegistus and the First Sages and also the Great White Brotherhood.

[madamlaydebug]

A number of leather codices were found at Nag Hammadi in Southern Egypt in 1945.

They are Coptic translations of Greek Gnostic documents. They likely belonged to an Egyptian monastery were disposed of after Gnostic literature was categorically rejected by decree of St. Athanasius of Alexandria.

The leather bound volumes contain the following works. They are mostly Valentinian Gnostic texts that were popularized in Egypt after the second century A.D.

Codex I (The Jung Codex)

The Prayer of the Apostle Paul

The Apocryphon of James

The Gospel of Truth

The Treatise on the Resurrection

The Tripartite Tractate

Codex II

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel

The Gospel of Philip a sayings gospel[citation needed]

The Hypostasis of the Archons

On the Origin of the World

The Exegesis on the Soul

The Book of Thomas the Contender

Codex III

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of the Egyptians

Eugnostos the Blessed

The Sophia of Jesus Christ

The Dialogue of the Saviour

Codex IV

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of the Egyptians

Codex V

Eugnostos the Blessed

The Apocalypse of Paul

The First Apocalypse of James

The Second Apocalypse of James

The Apocalypse of Adam

Codex VI

The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

Authoritative Teaching

The Concept of Our Great Power

Republic by Plato [The original is not gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with current gnostic concepts.]

The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise

The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer

Asclepius 21-29 – another Hermetic treatise

Codex VII

The Paraphrase of Shem

The Second Treatise of the Great Seth

Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter

The Teachings of Silvanus

The Three Steles of Seth

Codex VIII

Zostrianos

The Letter of Peter to Philip

Codex IX

Melchizedek

The Thought of Norea

The Testimony of truth

Codex X

Marsanes

Codex XI

The Interpretation of Knowledge

A Valentinian Exposition, On the Anointing, On Baptism (A and B) and On the Eucharist (A and B)

Allogenes

Hypsiphrone

Codex XII

The Sentences of Sextus

The Gospel of Truth

Fragments

Codex XIII:

Trimorphic Protennoia

On the Origin of the World

[untaisastra]

Guiding the rhythm of love;

Before ⸻

In the realm of time, the working hours are governed by GMT+7, spanning from the stroke of ten to the chime of nine, with an exception graciously extended to the esteemed VVIPs, affording them the privilege of flexible workhours. Sastra, a paradoxical creature of both night and morn, finds his repose between the twelfth and the first hour, and rouses from slumber between the eighth and ninth, as if straddling the border between darkness and dawn.

All the offerings he proffers are laid bare, a treasure trove accessible to boys, girls, and those beyond binary confines, encompassing the full spectrum of human connections from the tender caress of romance to the steadfast bond of platonic kinship, encompassing all conceivable tropes, save for the venomous toxin of toxicity.

Sastra extends his presence across three digital platforms, namely Telegram, Twitter, and Kakaotalk, creating a multifaceted tapestry of interaction.

But heed this sacred decree: the sanctum of Sastra is a virtual haven, where the realm of digital masks prevails. Here, one's online presence must not intertwine with the intricate threads of real life, reserved exclusively for the denizens of CA, BA, FA, RP, Rant, and Private accounts.

Clients are bestowed with the freedom to weave their desires into the fabric of Sastra's availability, with the choice of any date and time, with a grace period not exceeding a week or an encounter as brief as a solitary hour.

Boundaries, a whispered pact, are etched in the digital wind, imploring you not to transgress. Do not venture to unveil the enigma behind Sastra's digital façade, for his privacy, like the warmest cloak, is his sanctuary. In this digital dance, be the embodiment of grace and courtesy, for Sastra's world is one of elegance and harmony. Always, above all, be kind.

Amidst ⸻

Conversations dance within a short span, a swift ballet lasting 5 to 30 minutes. Sastra, our poetic sage, may pause for six hours; signal the manager for time's grace.

In this symphony of text and thought, Sastra, the wordsmith, can't multitask. Refrain to cut off the conversation before he is done replying all of it. Be patient, don't sever discourse prematurely. Uphold manners, where respect's delicate fabric is woven.

The room where words converge holds its unique energy. Don't linger on the charoom, Sastra is #tertekan. After his prose concludes, swift responses await.

In the conversation gallery, words flow like art. Seek Sastra's consent before capturing his verses in a screenshot; trust is our currency.

Consent guards the digital realm, an unwavering sentinel. Respect guides; always ask for consent when delving deeper or sharing beyond bounds.

Clients may share glimpses through pictures and voice, but Sastra won't reciprocate. Illusions reign supreme, his enigma intact. Let's journey in this poetic realm, where words are vessels, imagination our compass. Uphold courtesy and respect as our guiding principles.

After ⸻

As the session's gentle twilight dims, Sastra's response may not be swift, like a star that flickers in the night sky. Be patient, for time dances to its own cosmic rhythm.

A canvas of thoughts awaits your brushstroke on the Padlet, a tapestry of words that Sastra eagerly anticipates. With maximum fill-in of three days after session, each stroke of your testimonial paints a masterpiece, guiding Sastra's path through the labyrinth of self-improvement. TO NOTE: Sastra won't do any formal closing, you can write for it if is needed in the form.

Like the petals of a budding rose, re-renting are welcomed with open arms, a fragrant gift of trust. But, in the garden of time, let them bloom at their own pace. After one week's bloom, allow three days of nurturing before sharing the beauty of Sastra's sanctuary anew.

[cryptotheism]

Looking at my tumblr dash: discourse this, discourse that, what about the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth

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Gideon the Ninth Liveread: Chapter 10

Harrow is still missing in action. Noted casually, because Gideon doesn’t care per se, but this is absolutely a length of seperation that would be setting off alarm bells within any other necro/cavalier pair; for all her complaints about Gideon not being able to maintain the charade, Harrow’s lack of regard for Gideon strikes me as the fundamentally weak link in their plan, most likely papered over only by the fact that the other houses have no frame of reference for how the Ninth conducts it’s operations. Also, I’ve had the thought that the other houses might not care; the whole “fake cavalier” thing seems tailored to the scrutiny of a social environment much more heavily populated. Harrow was gearing up for some real court intrigue, but Harrow and Gideon are marooned with just 16 named characters, all of whom have their own shit going on.

Funny aside; Gideon doesn’t know what Fish are.

More details on skeleton mechanics. Harrow’s specific skill at boneology (and that line I’ve seen floating around, “we do bones, motherfucker” is shoring up my growing belief that each of the houses has a Hunger-games-like arbitrary speciation in their flesh magics; it’s a sign of great skill when you can get skeletons up and running without the assistance of connective tissues or any other fleshy bits. This is potentially a cultural engineering thing- an attempt to delineate between living slave-and-indentured-servant castes and pure robotic servitors. An attempt to head-off the exact bullshit Harrow is pulling with her parents, in other words.

Trying to guess which house this new antagonistic house is. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth are accounted for; this is either sixth or eighth. I get the sense that the necro may have artificially arrested their aging somehow, and with it possibly their emotional maturity/brain development? It would explain at least in part their Cav’s disgruntlement. Or maybe the fact that the Cav has actually clearly seen a ton of use as a meat shield while the Necro is in silk and chain-mail too thin to fulfill its function. Actually, this looks like the only pairing thus far that’s seen real action. Most of the rest are kids, or Magnus, who does not, you know. Have the vibe of a guy who’s experienced true horror.

Gideon’s reaction to the necro’s thousand-yard stare is telling; her recollection of Crux, of Sister Lachrimorta, of the Reverend Parents, all emphasize this need to be wanted; to be of use; Crux’s version is painful because it conveys disappointment, the Reverend Parents because they convey fear. And as she leaves the dining hall, her response to the Lyctor Trials is that she feels “suckered;” she isn’t wanted here, she isn’t useful here.

“The Stinging Slap in the face that she didn’t even have Harrow.” Okay, here we get a sign that Gideon views Harrow as a comforting absolute even if she nominally hates her. I’ve been wondering more than a little what the hell the grounds for a turnaround in their relationship were going to be; here we get a single inch of concession. (Also, open call to the peanut gallery- what does/did the insufferable discourse surrounding this relationship look like? Abuse apologia? Power Dynamics? This whole series feels like a hotbed of Facewearer discourse.)

Okay, my Bonesaw assessment of Dulcinea swells in its hold on my mind. She wanted in on Gideon’s personal brand of suffering because it seemed like a romantic way to die, and lost interest because of the aesthetic mismatch. I’m inclined to say that this is callous towards Gideon’s situation but given Dulcinea’s state it feels like a grass-is-greener situation more than anything truly appropriative.

So the seventh house deals with… reversing aging? Arresting the spread of disease? Or the progression? This is mentioned to be a hereditary issue, so perhaps their brand of necromancy was influenced by 10,000 years of trying to counter what’s happening to Dulcinea. And, as a point of comparison, I can imagine that both Ninth and First House’s skill with bone automatons developed downstream of their chronic manpower problems.

Dulcinea twigged to the sword discrepancy. This makes sense; Her Cav is proportioned like a super mutant and seems unlikely to have exclusively trained with toothpick rapiers. I’m not sure if Dulcinea is the only necro who’s capable of noticing this discrepancy at a glance- there are other fairly militaristic houses present- but she’s certainly the only one paying enough attention to Gideon specifically to notice.

Okay, Protesilaus is back. He reports that something is shut. What’s shut? Dulcinea sits and looks harmless, and she can afford to because she’s got her Cav off executing her plans for her, whatever they are.

So, final roundup! I sense a love interest. Noting, belatedly, that the very first thing Dulcinea does is give Gideon an opportunity to be helpful; and through this whole sequence it becomes clear that Gideon just kinda… does stuff if people ask nicely and make her, specifically, feel wanted and useful. She gets chased out of the dining hall, painted as a wrong and intrusive Thing, and moments later falls head-over-heels for the first person who makes her feel actively desired, even just for rote manual labor. Dulcinea’s appraisals of Gideon have this real…. charge, a suspicious charge, I felt like I was watching a spider wrapping up a fly with every request Gideon granted- and there’s a level on which it’s very sad, because a person less starved for affection would find being approached like this off-putting. Dulcinea is rotating her like a specimen! But to Gideon it’s a fantastic experience for reasons she doesn’t even have the vocabulary to articulate. I can’t picture her instinct being to confess everything at the slightest provocation to anyone else on this rock. 

Notably, however, I never have to hurriedly scroll past any posts about Gideon and Dulcinea being cute together- and unusually for this series, I have no idea why that is. This is one of the few elements of this story I’m experiencing completely blind, and I’m extremely excited to learn whatever fucked up circumstances lead to Harrow pulling ahead of Dulcinea as the intuitive romantic lead.

[combatloggingoff]

We stand for active online struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the timeline and the newsfeed in the interest of our fight. Every Poster and discourser should take up this weapon.

But logging off rejects online struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a gross, problematic attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain cliques and individuals in the timeline and the newsfeed.

Logging off manifests itself in various ways.

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because they are an old acquaintance, in the same fandoms, someone you have actually met in the physical world, a close friend, a loved one, an old mutual or longtime follower. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going off for hundreds of posts, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the feed and the individual are harmed. This is one type of logging off.

To indulge in having any opinions about anything in private instead of actively putting forward every single thought that passes through your skull in a post. To say nothing to people to their faces but to subtweet behind their backs, or to say nothing on the timeline but to go off in the private groupchat. To show no regard at all for the principles of online life but to make decisions in private. This is a second type.

To refrain from posting a Take about things if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame.  I SEE YOU NOT REBLOGGING THIS. This is a third type.

Not to join in with hashtags but to give pride of place to one's own opinions. To demand to be listened to on social media but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.

To admit you just don’t like someone and you’re arguing with them because they’re annoying instead of entering into an argument and insisting that your 134-tweet thread about them is disinterested struggling against incorrect views for the sake of empathy and justice. This is a fifth type.

To read incorrect views without immediately posting a comment and even to read problematic remarks without screenshotting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.

To be on Facebook and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or turn the comments on someone’s picture of their dog into a fight about Kamala Harris, and instead to be indifferent to controversial topics and act like there are other things a human being might conceivably want to talk about, forgetting that one is a Poster and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Poster. This is a seventh type.

To see someone defending Bean Dad or whoever we’re all supposed to be mad at this week, and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop them or call their boss and try to get them fired and hang up in frustration when their boss has no idea who Bean Dad is. This is an eighth type.

To post half-heartedly without a definite plan or seething rage; to post perfunctorily and muddle along—“I’m just going to scroll while I wait for the bus, then I’ll put my phone away.” This is a ninth type.

To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the discourse, to pride oneself on being Popular Online, to disdain minor controversies while being quite unequal to massive shitstorms, to be slipshod in posts and slack in staying in the loop. This is a tenth type.

To be aware of one's own bad posts and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a logged off attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.

We could name more. But these eleven are the principal types.

They are all manifestations of logging off.

Logging off is extremely harmful in the discourse. It is a corrosive which eats away hiveminds, undermines ganging up on people, causes apathy and makes people suspect they might have something better to do with their time. It robs the newsfeed of hundreds of identical posts and strict discipline, prevents callouts from being carried through and alienates the timeline from the vast majority of non-twitter-using humans whom the timeline claims to speak for. It is an extremely bad tendency.

Logging off stems from privileged selfishness, it places having a life first and the interests of the discourse second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational logging off.

People who are logged off look upon the principles of Posting as abstract dogma. They approve of Posting, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their logging off by Posting. These people have their Posting, but they have their logging off as well--they talk Posting but practice logging off; they apply Posting to others but logging off to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

Logging off is a manifestation of good mental health and conflicts fundamentally with Posting. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the discourse.

We must use Posting, which is positive in spirit, to overcome logging off, which is negative. A Poster should have largeness of mind and they should be constantly logged on, looking upon the interests of the discourse as their very life and subordinating their personal interests to those of the discourse; always and everywhere they should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all bad posts and problematic celebrities, so as to consolidate the collective life of the timeline and strengthen the ties between the timeline and the people who hear about viral tweets three days later on CNN; they should be more concerned about the timeline than about any actual human being, and more concerned about what other people think of their posts than about their own wellbeing. Only thus can they be considered a Poster.

All woke, based, active and upright Posters must unite to oppose the logged off tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.

[starbright-cobweb]

i want to have something smart to say on this topic; but i don't have the line yet, so I'm just going to observe it:

calls for "we need more representation of effeminate gay men" are very strange to me, because there's a sense in which that is the dominant, overwhelming mainstream representation.

(60s to 90s, think John Inman, Kenneth Williams, Graham Norton. In contrast to this, depictions of gay men as normatively boring or pumped up hulks ARE the pushback, are the radical action)

There's a dual, simultaneous sense in which the opposite is true.

(situations in which fems, camps, transfemme-adjacent-to-actual-transfemme, are excluded from social spaces, history, dating spaces, or the overall narrative)

There's a third, very nebulous sense that all representation is erasure when it's stereotypes for straight consumption rather than coming from an authentic perspective fleshed out from diverse angles.

(i.e. there is always a boundary line that you may not cross; sure, John Inman can camp it up on the telly but he couldn't, say, have a boyfriend; within either masculinity or effeminacy, the images produced are still confined by normative acceptability, be that straight acceptability or queer social norms; as such, all representation can be a way of hiding away dissonant existences)

A fourth discomfort around the ways people can template straight discourses of men and women onto queer cultures in ways that don't quite fit (i.e. assuming masc gays and fem gays are two different genders in an oppositional power hierarchy that's basically the same as men and women in cishetero contexts) - in this case, the implication that masculine expression is inherently a threat to feminine expression.

A fifth discomfort about the latent homophobia and misandry going on in so many labelled-as-queer spaces and discourses, and about whether these folks would actually recognise and celebrate authentic effeminacy when they saw it (if it didn't meet a mental image they're looking for and which they wish to consume); and the extent to which this is outsiders who are uncomfortable with masculinity but want the illusion of safety, consumability, even greater privilege over people who are feminine.

A sixth discomfort about how many of these critiques aren't coming from gay or bi men, a demographic which seems comparatively sidelined and quiet within labelled-as-queer spaces; and how this is very much an inside-the-community psychological knot, gay people's anxieties around their genders, about visibility, about being punished for self expression, how they police it in themselves, in others, and how healing can possibly occur in a world like this; and it's a little Awkward for outsiders to that to be weighing in. This is fraught. Oh yeah, queer men's horizontal aggression-anxiety about other queer men's gender performance is a Whole Thing; but you need to back off. Unless that's also where you're at, unless you're part of that horizontal.

a seventh handwave about the differences of culture, age, upbringing, preferred media type, and how that impacts what's dominant in your consumption (but not necessarily, in production; or what is a priority politically)

an eighth vagueness about how there's far too little media by, for and about us period, and so representations aren't in competition with one another, and all of them should be uplifted as a victory. Not every piece will serve every purpose, but collectively - as a body of artwork - they reflect us - a crowd of people. Where contrasts don't exist within texts, they exist between them.

A ninth hope and assumption that - as is so often true - someone smarter and more thoughtful than me will have thought through this before, and at some point i'll stumble across them writing or speaking and be able to sharpen this into a real observation, rather than a vague awareness that there's something a bit Off here, something complex that's not been fully named.

[cosmicsage]

"Let us embrace each other affectionately, my son. Rejoice over this! For already from them the power, which is light, is coming to us. For I see! I see indescribable depths. How shall I tell you, my son?

How shall I describe the universe? I am Mind, and I see another Mind, the one that moves the soul! I see the one that moves me from pure forgetfulness. You give me power! I see myself! I want to speak!

I have found the beginning of the power that is above all powers, the one that has no beginning. I see a fountain bubbling with life. I have said, my son, that I am Mind. I have seen!

Language is not able to reveal this. For the entire eighth, my son, and the souls that are in it, and the angels, sing a hymn in silence. And I, Mind, understand."

"The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth"

- Hermes Trismegistus

Image:

"Embodied Mastery"

by Marco Antonio Gómez

Cosmic Sage

[santmat]

The Precepts of Hermes Trismegistus engraved upon the Emerald Tablet [the Smaragdine Tablet] (for the most part, selections making use of several different translations)

1) This is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. 2) As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles. 3) And as all things are, and come from the One, by the meditation (contemplation) of the One, so all things are born from this unique thing by means of adaptation. (And as the whole universe was brought forth from the One by the Word of the One God, so also all things are regenerated perpetually from this One according to the disposition of nature.) 4) The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon. 5) The wind bore it in the womb. Its nurse is the earth, the mother of all perfection. 6) That One only is the Father [First Cause] of all things in the universe. 6a) It's power is perfect. 7) Here, on earth, It's strength, It's power, remains one and undivided. 7a) So separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with art (with care and sagacity), 8) ascend from earth to heaven, so as to draw the Lights of the Heights to yourself, and descend to the earth; thus within you are the forces of the above and the below; 9) because the Light of Lights are within you, thus does the darkness flee before you. 10) It is power, strong with the strength of all power, for it will penetrate all mysteries and dispel all ignorance. 11a) By it the world was created. (The structure of the microcosm is in accordance with the structure of the macrocosm.) 12) From it are born manifold wonders, the means to achieving which are here given. 13) It is for this reason that I am called Hermes Trismegistus (the Threefold Sage); for I possess the three essentials of the philosophy of the universe. 14) Thus, that which I have called the Solar Work, is complete.

Various translations of this Hermetic work of late antiquity: @ Sacred Texts: https://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htm @ Ancient Texts: https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/egyptian/emerald/treatise.html

The Corpus Hermeticum

Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation by Brian Copenhaver: https://ia802801.us.archive.org/17/items/hermetica.thegreekcorpushermeticumandthelatinasclepiustranslatedbybriancopenhaver/Hermetica.%20The%20Greek%20Corpus%20Hermeticum%20and%20the%20Latin%20Asclepius%20translated%20by%20Brian%20Copenhaver.pdf

Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Heavens (in the Nag Hammadi Library): http://hermetic.com/texts/eighth.html

[bread--quest]

[ID: A comic. The first panel shows the Steven Universe fandom, depicted as Steven, with Connie’s skin tone, Garnet-style pants and a blue shirt with a star. They are standing alone. In the second panel, an offscreen voice says “Hey!” The third panel shows the Adventure Time and Gravity Falls fandoms, represented by Finn and Mabel. AT is wearing a blue sweater that says ‘you and I will always be back then’, and GF is wearing a dark green sweater with a shooting star with the star replaced with a pine tree on it, and the words “See you next summer.” In the fourth panel, the three hug. The fifth panel is the three of them standing in front of a pink, blue, and yellow background. SU says “So.” AT says “Ten episodes, huh?” and SU says “Yup. And then...” GF says “Well.” The sixth panel is just SU, saying “Did I...do good?” AT, off-screen, says “Are you kidding me? You were ground breaking!” SU says “Yeah, but...I did bad things too.” The seventh panel is SU’s head at the bottom of the panel as they recite “Harassment. Discourse. Inconsistent character designs. MORE discourse. Ship wars....” The eighth panel is AT alone saying “That’s just the SU criticals talking. You were great.” The ninth panel shows a surprise three new fandoms; Homestuck, represented by a troll with Terezi style hair and one Karkat and one Vriska horn, wearing a skirt, cape, and sweater saying “Thanks For Playing.”, Undertale, represented by Frisk with tiny goat horns and a sweater saying “Don’t kill. Don’t be killed.”, and Avatar, who is represented by Aang with Katara’s hair and a sweater saying “Fire. Water. Earth. Air.” Homestuck is saying “Hey.” In the next panel, Homestuck alone says “Yeah, a little self-criticism is okay, but don’t lose the big picture. The big picture, btw, is gay rights. Congrats on your canon lesbian marriage. Next, a text box shows that Undertale reminds SU that a fandom doesn't die after the content ends. Then, Avatar says “Yeah! I had a miniseries too! It was great! Then it ended, but I’m still here!” In the second-to-last panel, GF says “I, uh, I made you something. I know there isn't a star on it, but...” The last image is not a panel, but a free-floating image of Steven Universe wearing a blue sweater saying “Happily Ever After Never Ends. They are crying happy tears and surrounded by small stars and bubbles. End ID.] 

I drew this when SUF was announced, but I think it works for right now too. Just substitute “Ten episodes” for “four episodes.” Also, if you’re having trouble reading the tiny words, check the image description. 

Sometimes, you have a lot of feelings, and the only way to cope is by drawing Fandomstuck in the year of our lord 2020. 

Also, you should click the images!! They’re transparent. (Description of what’s hidden in the margins under the cut.)

In the margins of the comic, there is a heart and star next to the first panel. Next to the panel where Gravity Falls and Adventure Time first appear is a doodle of Bill Cipher and a shooting star. More hearts are next to the talking panels, with a  broken heart next to the one where SU questions whether it was a “good” fandom. Next to the list of bad things, there’s a drawing of a rose and the word Rose. When Homestuck, Undertale, and Avatar appear, there’s a large house pattern like the Homestuck logo. A Vriska-style smiley face with eight eyes is next to Homestuck’s advice panel, a pixel heart is next to UT’s, and the words “idk much about avatar” are written next to Avatar’s panel. In the final image of Steven Universe, the words “Good fandoms don’t die. They godtier.” are written.