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Chapter 2 - Invocatory utterance  
     
1.
 O Primal Origin of my origination;
 
2.
 Thou Primal Substance of my substance; First Breath of breath, the breath that is in me;
 
3.
 First Fire, God-given for the Blending of the blendings in me,
 
4.
 First Fire of fire in me;
 
5.
 First Water of my water. the water in me;
 
6.
 Primal Earth-essence of the earthy essence in me;
 
7.
 Thou Perfect Body of me - N. N. son of N. N., son of N.N. (fem.) –
 
8.
 fashioned by Honoured Arm and Incorruptible Right Hand, in World that's lightless,
 
9.
 yet radiant with Light, in World that's soulless,
 
10.
 yet filled full of Soul!
  
11.
 If, verity, it may seem good to you, translate me, now held by my lower nature, unto the Generation that is free from Death;
 
12.
 in order that, beyond the insistent Need that presses on me, I may have Vision of the Deathless Source,
 
13.
 by virtue of the Deathless Spirit,
 
14.
 by virtue of the Deathless Water,
 
15.
 by virtue of the Deathless Solid, and
 
16.
 by virtue of the Deathless Air;
 
17.
 in order that 1 may become re-born in Mind;
 
18.
 in order that 1 may become initiate,
 
19.
 and that the Holy Breath may breathe in me;
 
20.
 in order that 1 may admire the Holy Fire;
 
21.
 that 1 may see the Deep of the [New] Dawn,
  
22.
 the Water that doth cause [the Soul] to thrill;
 
23.
 and that the, Life-bestowing Æther which surrounds all things may give me, Hearing.
  
24.
 For 1 am to behold to-day with Deathless Eyes
 
25.
 - I, mortal, born of mortal womb, but [now] made better by the Might of Mighty Power, yea, by the Incorruptible Right Hand
 
26.
 - [I am to see to-day] by virtue of the Deathless Spirit the DeathlessÆon, the master of the Diadeins of Fire
 
27.
 - I with pure purities [now] Purified, the human soul-power of me subsisting for a little while in purity;
 
28.
 which [power] I shall again receive transmitted unto me beyond the insistent Bitterness that presses on me, Necessity whose debts can never go unpaid
 
29.
 - I, N. N., son of N. N. (fem.) - according to the Ordinance of God that naught can ever change.  
30.
 For that it is beyond my reach that, born beneath the sway of Death, I should [unaided] soar into the Height, together with the golden sparklings of the Brilliancy that knows no Death.
  
31.
 Stay still, O nature doomed to Perish, [nature] of men subject to Death!
 
32.
 And straightway let me pass beyond the Need implacable that presses on me; for that I am His Son;  
33.
 I breathe; I am!  

 
 
 

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