linktherat ([info]linktherat) wrote,
  • Mood: discontent
  • Music: Iron & Wine - Sixteen, Maybe Less

V.V.V.V.V.

Gimel. The tread of the Camel. The ship of the desert.

Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici. By the force of truth, I while living, have conquered the universe.

In my dreams I see a wheel, and on the wheel are figures. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake, and the center of the wheel is a scarlet heart.

The figures on the wheel are darker than the wheel itself, in fact, they are stains upon the purity of the wheel, and for that reason I cannot see them. But at the top seems to be a Lamb, while one of the lower things is a Wolf, and the other a Raven. The lamb is much brighter than the other two.

The Lamb Speaks; "I am the greatest of deceivers, for my purity and innocence shall seduce the pure and innocent,who but for me should come to the center of the wheel. The Wolf betrayeth only the greedy and the treacherous; the raven betrayeth only the melancholy and the dishonest. But I am he of whom it is written: He shall deceive the very elect."

"For in the beginning the Father of All called for lying spirits that they might sift the creatures of the earth in three sieves, according to the three impure souls. And he chose the wolf for the lust of the flesh, and the raven for the lust of the mind; but he chose me above all to simulate the pure prompting of the soul. Them that are fallen a prey to the wolf and the raven I have not scathed; but them that have rejected me I have given over to the wrath of the raven and the wolf."

"And the jaws of the one have torn them, and the beak of the other has devoured the corpse. Therefore is my flag white, because I have left nothing upon the earth alive. I have feasted myself on the blood of the Saints, but I am not suspected of men to be their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not the teeth of one that teareth flesh; and mine eyes are mild, and they know me not the chief of the lying spirits that the Father of All sent forth from before his face in the beginning."

Now the Lamb grows small again, there is again nothing but the wheel, and the hand that whirleth it.

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