Altogether clad in clamorous light arming mind and soul with trident force throw the entire synthema of the triad into your being; nor frequent the water-course of the celestial fire flux in a distracted manner; rather—concentrate! [2] * There exists a certain mind thing. To it one must put mind's Flower. And if you incline mind to it as if attending a thing, you are not minding that. It is the very possibility of mightiness flashing circumambient light in mental sectors. And do not attend it with vehemence but by means of the long- extended flame of mind that measures all things but not that one mind thing. And do not hold mind to it with an obstinate intensity but holding the eye of your soul the other way turn an empty mind toward that one mind thing in order to study that mind thing because it already exists outside the mind. [1] * It is not possible to adduce a name for it, as if a name could be adapted to it. This therefore: What is beyond all things is only referred to as the One by those desiring to utter the ineffable. [9] * The mind of the Father has sown symbols down in the world. The mind, that is, that thinks the Intelligibles. They are said to be things of ineffable beauty. [108] * For all things that issue from the One, and to the One return, are divided, intellectually, into many bodies. [9] * Do not retain in your mind the multiplicitous otherness but amplify the intelligence in the Soul towards The One. * Urge yourself onward to the center of the clamorous light. [111 * Unlock the Immortal depth of Soul. Let all your eyes fly up! UP UP! [112] * The most robust of natures behold truth on their own account and are the more the discoverers being saved through their own strength. Weaker natures require tutelage from others complete where they are not. [117] To some, the god has provided instruction so that the mark of the light might be recognized. Others he has fructified in their slumber by their own strength. [118] * How do the angels elevate the soul? By irradiating soul with fire, casting light upon it from everywhere making it full of undefiled fire imparting to it un-in-clining order and capacity not to scatter to matter’s dis-order but make contact with the light of god-like things. [122] * Hekate says: These are the thoughts of the Second Father after which my fire spirals. [38] * Those who release the soul on the breath are free. [124] * For god things are not accessible to bodily-minded mortals but are accessible to such as, naked, hasten up— Up Up! [116] * When you see the shapeless sacrificial fire shining leaping down through the depths of the whole cosmos: Listen to the voice of the fire . [148] * Says Hekate: Invoke me often and you'll see that everything is LIONS: For neither does the arched mass of the sky appear, nor do the stars shine. The light of the moon is occluded; the earth has no fixed place. All things are seen in lightning flashes. [147] * Having intoned these things you will see a fire like a child leaping extended on the billowing air or a fire on which no form has been impressed and from it a voice sent out or a rich light rushing in spirals about a field or perhaps you'll see a horse more glittering than starlight or a child mounted on the fast back of a horse or a fiery child ornamented with gold or, again, a naked one on the back of a horse standing, shooting a bow. [146] * Unique. Beyond. Not cut into small pieces but of one form, indivisible. [152] * Nor will you leave the detritus of matter back on a beetling crag, but that there'd be a portion for an image at a place surrounded by light. [158] * Avengers—person stranglers. [161] ****** Apollo exulting in harmony of light [71] * I, the divine, have arrived armed to the teeth. [72] * Zeus in the sky, in the midmost region, the Concourse of Air. Then another—the third—heats up earth. These three furious Princes are served by all things. [73] They are Originaries because they're the first to give rise to the flow of their own streams. Therefore their cosmic level is celebrated as: Primordial Fountain. [74] ****** Implacable thunderbolts leap out of him and the lightning-bolt-receiving womb of shining rays of Hekate sired by the Father and the under-girdling fire-flower and the strong spirit beyond the fiery poles… [35] * The Mind of the Father minding with strong intent spun out thought forms, putting before an ordered, polymorphous, world an imperishable paradigm and down its disorderly track, appeared an ordered cosmos engraved with all ideas. One source exists for this; and from it, dividing and dividing entities unapproachable spin off having splintered on the body of the world. Those who are borne about the terrifying wombs like a swarm of bees flashing hither and yon— are thoughts from the Paternal source copiously culling the Fire Flower from the pinnacle of sleepless time. The Father's primal self-perfected source-spring gushed these first ideas. [37] * In the midst of the Fathers the center of Hekate. [50 * In her womb-hollows all things are sown. [28] * Visible from everywhere she has faces on all sides and sends forth vessel-channels of embodied life containg within her the center from which all beings proceed. [189] About her womb on the right a hollow full of lumpy gruel gushes abundantly: it is the primordial font of psychic fluid ensouling, abundantly, light, aether, fire, worlds. [51] * On the left side of her womb there lies the source of virtue— remaining wholly within not giving up the virgin state. [52] * From the back of the goddess is hung inexhaustible Nature. * Says Hekate: After the paternal thoughts— I, the Psyche, dwell ensouling all things with my heat. [53] * Sun-fire fixed at the place of the heart. [58] Sun-world—entirely luminous [59] * Helios: Fire; Out-channel of fire; House-keeper of fire. [60] * Moon after sun air after moon: Aethereal course and inexhaustible lunar impetus-onset. Air flows; Aether, sun, moon-breaths, air chiefs. Of the solar: cycles; Of moon plash: clangs; Of air: wombs. Portion of ether and sun, and channels of moon and air; portion of ether and sun and moon; such things as swim with air. Air: expanse; Moon: course; Eternal circuit of the Sun. [61] * When the channels merge, the Highest Life consummates the work of inextinguishable fire. [66] * Whatever other fiery mass there was self-working all things so that the cosmic body be completed and cosmos come clear and not appear to be like a membrane… [68] * Though the sky exists mimetic of intellect, that which is fashioned from it has something somatic about it. [69] * Nature, making space through all things, hovers suspended from Great Hekate: For tireless Nature rules worlds and actions so that sky might turn drawn down along its eternal course and swift Helios come about the center according to his ethos. [70] * Says Hekate: Complete my animal image purged as I shall instruct you: Make a body from field rue; ornament with delicate small beast forms (such as spotted lizards that live about the house); Pound storax, myrrh, and frankincense with these beasts into a mixture and under a waxing moon in the clear light of ether finish the telestics [224] * You do not know that god is good, O drudge-mule-men: so sober Up! [15] * Matter? Squalid. Needy. [100] * Don't look Nature in the face: her name is Destiny: Heimermene [102] * Don't augment the Heimarmene [103] * Don't extinguish your mind [105] lest earth beasts keep house in your vessel. [157] * Don't change the Barbarous Names [150] * O Person—impudent Nature's contrivance… [106] * Don't cast monstrous reckonings from under the field into your mind— the plant of truth grows not on earth. Nor take the measure of the Sun with rods— the Sun is borne according to the everlasting intent of the Father and not because of you. Leave the Moon alone— she courses through the action of Necessity. The procession of the stars was not brought to birth for your pleasure and the flat planing motion of common birds never yields true omens nor do the cuts of sacrificial entrails. All these are toys, support for the frauds of the market. Flee these. Rather go up to the holy pleasure garden of true piety where Virtue, Wisdom, and Good Order come together. [107] * And do not stoop to the cosmos of black light below which an abyss is established always amorphous cloud-surrounded image-besotted thoughtless and unclean beetling, distorted always in contortions about a maimed depth always given in marriage to an inapparent shape, idle—barren— breathless… [163] **** The god-sustaining silence of The Fathers. * The Father seized himself—nor locked his private fire away in mind's potential… [3] * Possibility is with him; mind is from him. [4] * For the First Father perfected all things and gave them to a Second whom you, and the entire human race, mistake for the First one. [7] * The Father is the noetic entity, having the thinking thing within himself [20] * The gods have provided instruction in many Iunxes: Many of these throw themselves into the picture riding on the glittering of apparent worlds. [76] * The Iunxes thought up by the Fathers— themselves think moved as they are by his unspeakable intentions so as to think. [77] * The First Connector at the very peak of his singular subsistence exists by himself outside of everything. [84] * The Father of gods and men put Mind in Soul and Soul in sluggish body. [94] * That the Soul a shining fire by power of the Father remains immortal and is Mistress of Life and has the fullnesses of many cosmic worlds. [96] * Those who have turned to serve Generation but served with unbowed necks leave Generation to go back UP. [99] * Flying up and away the soul of one Whose-Voice-Is-Divided will throttle the god into its own entity and no longer holding anything mortal inside it but drunk on the god now within it justly boast of the harmony under which even the mortal body lives. [97] * But the mind of the Father does not receive the intent of the Soul until it come out of forgetfulness and utter the word that has been placed within it mindful of the pure paternal synthema. [109] * Seek the channel of soul by which in sequence it descended and became the body's menial Seek in sequence how to reascend unifying ceremonial action with theurgical formulae. [110] * Hasten to the light and to the light beams of the Father whence the soul by Mighty Mind engarmented has been sent to you. [115] * Take care for the purification of our Body of Light the soul-vessel clean of husks. [120] * A mortal having drawn near the fire will radiate god-light allowing a greater share and participation more piercing in the light of the gods. [121] * The souls, by cognizing the acts of the Father, flee the reckless wing of fate's apportioning In god they requiesce and quaff the full-flowering flames that fall out of the Father from which, as the flames descend, the souls pluck the soul-fost'ring blooms of the fire-fruits. [130] * The sluggish theurgist loses the god. [141] * Things unstamped get stamped. [144] * Theurgists don't fall into the rabble [the ones who go about in packs] subject to Destiny [153] * That which is One without a kind here has its singular nature from The One. [169] * The Father guides us, opening paths of fire lest, out of forgetfulness, we pour ourselves away into an abject basin. [171] * The vehemence of matter by which many are pulled down into twisted fluxes-- [172 * many-minded truth [182 is in the depths [183] * Since the soul is a pantomorphic image it possesses the principles of everything that is [186b] * Thus a hidden order embraces the whole noetic realm with a single form [198] * Sing the praises of Chronos, that he is both older and younger, an unfurling circle—eternal. [199] * Particular souls become encosmicized according to the vehicles peculiar to each. [201] * Swiftly flee from chthonic passivities, flee far away— O you who possess the highest eye of the soul and un-inclining rays that you might hoist the body's great ponderous bridle by means of pure soul and the Father's ethereal luster… [213] * The moon mounts all generation and visibly governs all things beneath her-- Nymphs of springs and spirits that live in water and those in chthonic depths, and aerial spirits and ones beneath sun rays and male and female moon riders— Ouranian, stellar, or abysmal… [216] * A sweet desire grips all to dwell forever on Olympos as fellows of the deathless gods. But it is not lawful for all to step into those halls. It is not the person who has mindfully fixed his intent on sacrificial entrails that will make it to Olympus airborn on the subtle wings of the soul when his body's scattered, but whoever is wise. [217] * Says Hekate: After dawn burst splendor infinite, full of stars, I left the unpolluted house of god and stepped on life-fost'ring earth according to your request persuaded by those ineffable words by which a mortal person delights in delighting the mind of the immortals… [219] * Drawing them out of the aether by means of secret Iunxes, you easily lead them to earth against their will; but the middle beings— the ones who ride the middle winds— far from the god fire, you take them for split-voiced mortals, as if they were oracular dreams, shamefully doing the demons harm… [223] * It has both: it holds mind things in its Mind and brings sensuous perception to the worlds. [8] * Paternal intellect, self-engendered, having conceived his works, inseminated everything with a fire-burdened chain of love that all things might go on loving till time without limit; that things woven by the intellective light of the Father never fall… [39] * The principles, that know the intellective acts of the Father, concealed them in an ambiance of sensible and somatic workings. [40] * Ideas are at once separated and compounded by the chain of wondrous love that first leapt from the mind, mind-fire engarmenting chained fire, so as to blend together the mixing bowls of the sources while holding forth the Flower of his fire… [42] * For Aion alone, imbued with the strength of the Father, copiously culling the Flower of Mind, has the wherewithal to know the Father Mind imparting it to all Principals and Sources sustaining their constant vortex in ceaseless motion. [49] * Hekate indeed is the source and spring of blessed intellection, for the First Power receives the birth of All in her unspeakable womb hollows and pours it forth on the All as it runs its course. [56]