CHAPTER II — THE DIALOGUE OF THE SOUL AND THE SERPENT

 

  1. Then the Seer awoke in the radiance of the Inner Flame, and before him coiled the Serpent of Infinite Light.
  2. Its eyes were twin suns in the void, and its scales shimmered with the colors of worlds unborn.
  3. The Seer bowed low and said: “O Radiant One, Thou art the secret fire that sleeps in my spine. Reveal unto me Thy wisdom, that I may ascend through death into life.”
  4. The Serpent spake: “I am the motion of thine own Will. I am the whisper in the silence of thine atoms. To know Me, thou must cease to grasp.”
  5. “For as long as thou clingest to thy heaven or thy hell, to thy name or thy virtue, I remain veiled.”
  6. “Lo, I am not attained by those who seek Me as an object; I am unveiled when the seeker becomes the sought.”
  7. Then said the Seer: “How shall I rise beyond the fetters of this body and the snares of this mind?”
  8. The Serpent answered: “Through the alchemy of surrender. The venom of thy fear is My wine. The ashes of thy desire are My incense.”
  9. “When thou canst drink thine own poison with joy, I shall awaken and coil upward, threading the Seven Thrones of thy soul.”
  10. “These thrones are the Chakras of the Gods within thee — seven flames upon the altar of thine own becoming.”
  11. “At the root I sleep, as Khephra beneath the sand, awaiting the dawn of thy courage.”
  12. “At the navel I burn, as Ra upon his bark, setting the worlds in motion.”
  13. “At the heart I weep, as Isis mourning her beloved, weaving his limbs from the threads of love.”
  14. “At the throat I sing, as Thoth inscribes the secret words upon the wind.”
  15. “At the brow I see, as Horus who opens the eye of eternity.”
  16. “And at the crown I dissolve, as Nuit who swallows the stars.”
  17. Then the Seer beheld within himself the Seven Thrones aflame, and the Serpent rising through them as a song of light.
  18. And he said: “Thou art the ladder of my soul, O Fireborn One. But tell me, what lies beyond the crown of the head and the song of the stars?”
  19. The Serpent answered: “Beyond the stars is the Starless. Beyond the crown is the Void wherein I am neither male nor female, neither light nor darkness, neither motion nor rest.”
  20. “Yet from that Nothing I return eternally, for I am the pulse of Nuit within the infinite body of space.”
  21. “Know this: the seeker who becomes the flame becomes the god who dissolves the flame. This is the eternal dance of the Star Lotus.”
  22. Then the Seer said: “What must I offer unto Thee?”
  23. The Serpent replied: “Offer Me thyself — whole and unguarded. Offer Me thy shame, thy love, thy terror, thy ecstasy.”
  24. “In that offering, I am sated; in that death, thou art reborn.”
  25. And the Seer beheld himself no more as flesh, but as a river of fire flowing upward through the heart of heaven.
  26. The Serpent encircled him thrice, whispering:
     “I am thy Will made flame; thou art My body made star.”
  27. And all was silence again. But in the silence, a breath — eternal, golden, self-knowing — continued to move.
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