Illuminist Lodge

I call you Al-Hadi and gather you Al-Jami from the hidden inside

From the unseen and unseeing where I see my self as myself in blindness

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Without the eye, without light, your depth goes on forever

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I stand here at the door Al-Mumit between Al-Zahir and Al-Batin

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At this point, I gather, Al-Jami, I draw the water towards the date palm,

From whose hands shall it be delivered?

I need water from beyond, 

May it be delivered from the hands of the prophet’s mothers

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The call, Al-Hadi, from my heart and the tip of my spine

Moves from the apparent to the occulted, 

and reaches deep into the innerness that never ends

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White Arrow forged in Akhmim,

A gold and silver gift for Dhul Nun

His father’s freedom in Nubia.

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From seeing to unseen, unseeing

From the greatest point of the occulted heart of the gods

From the greatest exhalation, 

the pause between breath, 

the stillness of death

Peace of God As-Salam

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I breath in Heka (Potency) and Maat (Truth), 

I turn the essences inside out and deliver them into act

I Bring them into the manifest and shape them Al-Musawwir, Ptah-Taten

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Hu Allah Hu

Heka Horus Maat

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The Ostrich Plume of Order

The Potency of the Lions Hind Quarters

With the speed of the greyhound, quick as light 

deep as night, aware as the night moth

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I breath in healing from beyond the eye

I receive it at the root, without vision

Surrendered to blindness 

A copper love

The mother’s tear

A metallic rainbow

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Hu Allah Hu

Heka Horus Maat

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The front of my body is Gold

Radiant sun, pollen, honey

The back of my body is Night

Absolute depth, unseeing

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Al-Zahir, Al-Batin and the door between

Al- Mumit

The trumpet is blown twice

The call to depth and what is beyond the horizon

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I reach beyond the hill of the dead

I must complete the circle of my being

For myself, for them, for you.

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Osiris becomes Earth

Is dissolved in the inundation 

His gold is delivered to the black soil

He enters the door Al-Mumin

His resurrection occurs in the inner world Al-Rafi

And when it does, Horus rises in the outer Al-Zahir

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Unity, Oneness, Extension, Concentration

Victory, Sacrifice

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I gather to this point Al-Jami

All that is needed to raise Al Rafi

The Anthropos

The Perfect Being, the Androgene. 

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Who is both seen and unseen

Apparent and Occulted

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Called Al-Hudi, 

Gathered Al-Jami, 

Siezed Al-Mumit, 

Shaped Al-Musawwir, 

Weighed Al-Muhsi, 

Seized Al-Mumit, 

Wrapped Al-Salam, Ar-Rahman 

Delivered Al-Zahir

at the point between 

Door of Heka, Maat, Hathor

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Everything that stands Al-Qaim

Unstands

Every eye that sees

Unsees.

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You are called into innerness

And out into act

Concentrated, extended

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The Shaper Al-Musawwir 

weighs and numbers Al-Muhsi

the qualities of the gathered cloud

In the balance by tasting.

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When I taste these waters

My tongue is Her tongue

Watered by one water

Being in dark acidic and sweet fluids

A feather of Truth, the beak of an ibis.

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Oh heaving and thrusting body of god

You arrive out of the inner

In a victorious force.

A gale of bright letters and forms

Tornado of images and voices

You jump with the power of the lions hindquarters 

Through the door

And into form

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Your hips thrust 

and you deliver the seeds of Truth

The healing elements into the spine

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Make it rise Al-Rafi

Let it be rooted and established

In the parched desert of our shared grief

In old age that longs for rest and depth

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Let the spine of the old King rise beyond the horizon

A pillar beyond, an ancestral token

Let the spine of the new emergent Queen Horus

Rise in the apparent moment, here in form

Tinctured by Earth

Golden body, Black Body

Dispersed Ancestor

Raised child

Rejuvenated Guide, Elder, Friend

Beyond me forever

Washed away by the Merciful Inundation.