Illuminist Lodge

No One but The Shaper knows You

You who emerges into The Vast Earth

The One who dives deeply emerges unrecognizable

Even to You, the One who dove.

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The Body of Gold engulfs you

Its round brightness and deep ringing

Carries you to a new station.

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Why must glass be melted by the flame in order to be reshaped?

Why must I be annihilated by grief?

Why must I fall into the Earth?

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“Because you lack True Imagination and Vision-

The Image I am shaping You into

is beyond your conception of Personhood.”

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Only the special glass gets reshaped so exquisitely,

is annihilated by the heat of this Living talisman,

The Hot Bright Awakened Body,

The Vast Earth.

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Your States are fixity, dissolution, emergence.

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The Earth sends up a pillar of light,

Heaven sends one down to meet it

This is the place of Emergence.

You are the Child that travels on a light beam.

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Fixity happens when a witness enters the field

and dreams of duration,

longs for more time together.

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Dissolution is the pursuit of Love

and what falls away

when our open arms

receive the embrace

In Abraham’s tent.

Never forget,

It was You who stepped into the Cave of Muhammad

and Offered this World,

this Body

because it was not enough.

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By this Black Stone

I Leave my Traces

For You who come later

Circling in, draped around your perfect face

The Mane of our Time together.

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This excess of Life is a treasure you have hunted.

When you try to hold on to Allah”s Beloved

The Ownership is returned.

Winged Grace alights free.

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Allow yourself to be engulfed, englobed,

the One who dives deep

emerges unrecognizable,

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No One but The Shaper knows You.

The You who emerges in The Vast Earth.

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The Heart Seizes the Senses And Tunes them to See

The Chimerical Quintessence

Crossed Globe

Shepherd of The Planets

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You are not The Shaper

You are the Spirit invoked

A white dove diving

into The Golden Sea

You Courage and Certitude

Call Forth the New World.

Fly swiftly, there is no time.