Illuminist Lodge

The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds

The Plurality of Humanities filling these worlds

“Tradition, indeed, does not only admit of the plurality of inhabited worlds, but also the plurality of humanities filling these worlds” footnote page 7, Scientific Ideas and The Masonic Ideal, Rene Guenon Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage

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The quantum flashing

Light extending, pulsing, circulating

Erotic Success

Resolving into rounded chambers of toroidal swelling

Abyss and void; Depth and stillness

Initiatic night

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The light and darkness developing together

Traveling together, communicating, mixing

Crafting a third, an emergent being.

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Who arises from their togetherness?

One foot in the extending projected flash

One foot in the abyss and depth of initiatic night

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Let me be clear

Clearer than starlight

Clearer than crystal

Clearer than archai

Clearer than oil

Clearer than a lamp

Clearer than Goddess

Let me be clear

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What is the role of The Eye

The Witness?

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The witness stands and faces the source of Light

The fingers of light reach out towards Her face and senses

Overwhelm the veils of sense in quantum flashes

What the witness longs to see arise, projects into the Eye

The soul announces to the soul from within the soul

The seed projects into the field beyond you

It annunciates a dialectic

For your pleasure and communication

Then you interiorize it, it indwells and multiplies

Naturea Luminae open a fecundity

Gives birth through the Eye, the soul, the witness, the longing, the desperation

The witness stands immersed in Light

Cohabitating, indwelling

Both feet in the bright flashing

sulphur of the crucible, engulphed

Encircled by cool space, depth, folding

Healed by deification, by becoming Cosmatrix

The womb of your soul brings forth the Third

Mesocosm

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Three suns

One indwelling flame

One Planet

One bright mind, Nous

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You carry the hidden One,

the only hope for the forever falling sky

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We prime the senses for emergence and mercy

The total manifestation of the hidden One

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Only you Witness,

carry, call forth, and deliver The Pole

Your true heart, your straight Arrow, the emergence into your face

Of the one you long for and project into The Eye.

Your gaze becomes a bright path

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If the Light is at your back, you face the shadows

and He uses them to communicate with your veiled face

Feel the forms dancing across your jeweled orbs

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When you turn and face the source of the Light

Who turns your face, your neck, your eyes, your face?

Who expands the field of vision?

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Feel the fire of radiance

and fine raiment of spiritual light

Enter the field your face

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Can The Light move into and through you?

into the indwelling state

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Body as the treasure

Mind, heart, navel of Gold

Source and circulation of the True

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If the Light can indwell

you become a source of light

Your gaze a path

and your face can turn towards the friends

that circle you like a golden mane

and whisper “The Hidden Imam” into each ear

Projection

She is carried by your breath into the heart of each

Interiorization

From heart to heart, navel to navel

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Ignition, fire leaping through flesh

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Each and Every Pole multiplied by the heat of your breath and heart.

The world is saved

Because you are here.

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Oasis and circle of Life

Gentle whisper into the cupped hand

I veil this message with my palm

And create a bridge into your center

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Riding the wave of love

Into the spiral galaxy of the ear

Being arising from the velvety tongue

Indwelling throne

Indwelling Earth

Indwelling paradise.

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The Hidden Imam arises

As a child of bright speech

Into the kingdom of Humanity

Emerging into each body as an indwelling

A certainty

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The true needs no advocate

It stands for itself

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In the breath of Dawn

The world is saved

Because you are here.

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Do you believe the Worlds can handle you?

The Humanities?

Take a risk Imam, gather faith

Be born,

be handed to life,

be handed to death.

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Have you ever been held by arms

That can hold your totality

and emerging truth?

If not, is the veil over your heart

or over the world?

The arms are real, you are real

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If paradise is not living through and in you

has it become hidden from you

or are you hiding from it?

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Are you wrapping yourself in the underworld

for the security of the known

the familiarity of the ancestral weight

and burden of history, theology

the shame of the sinking world.

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Do you think that The One

consults with the scribes, lawyers, philosophers, sheikhs

before delivering the nourishment of a new revelation?

To make sure it follows the course of a long forgotten river?

No, paradisical waters fall in fullness

And reshape the land, swell the seas, and rivers

destroys the books and libraries, wipes the memory clear

for a new emergence.

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I know this World has snared you and convinced you

The best thing is to project your own greatness onto another

To use them as a shelter from the radiance that you are

That the Worlds is.

The plurality of inhabited worlds,

The plurality of emerging Imams

The plurality of humanities

The plurality of suns

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If you meet and join the Anthropos

Please don’t tell that you come from a world

Where to anthropomorphize is a sin

Let that nightmare fall from you

As you ride into Presence.

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Aside from the sweet verdant Earth

What could be more perfect than the creatures in Her nests

What could be more beautiful, more measured, more proportioned?

If you meet and enter into the woman of wisdom

Don’t tell that you come from a world where the blind say there is an impassable barrier

Don’t tell lies in the vast earth

If you find or become the gold of the treasure

Your flesh becomes brilliant

Your Eye casts a path

Anthropos Imam Nous

Three suns emerge from millions of bodies

As one presence

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Don’t veil yourself Imam

with the shadow of another

with the shadow of the past

The True needs no advocate

It stands on its own and rides for itself.

Come out from under the rock of your traditions

The limits of your elders

Hand yourself to life itself, your heart is true

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The One body of Earth collaborates with the Others

In a mystery of communication and love

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Skin is shed to allow a new form to live

Waters run, earth squeezes and shifts, holds,

Fire heals and defeats,

air inspires and causes to rise

Ether informs,

plasma dissolves and opens a beyond.

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If paradise is but a reflection or the potential to shine

Like the old oil in a buried niche

The you are wrapping yourself in old clothes

because you love the smell of the known.

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Real arms reach out to you on this very day

That long to hold your true being and body

Your star, crystal, sun, and moon

Your indwelling light

The One we are primed to witness, love, and know.

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The world is saved today

Because you are here.

***Images taken from the book Hathor’s Alchemy: The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the Hermetic Arts by Alison M. Roberts

*****Drawings by Jean St. John