  "Well, that certainly was an unusual collection of stories," Domenico exclaimed as his lady love put the finishing touches on Scroll Twenty Of the Delphic Diviner. "Especially coming from a group of Black-Madonna-worshipping priests - come to think of it, though, perhaps not so strange, after all." "Hmm," Olivia hummed in agreement. "I think I know exactly what Father Frappy Cappy and his mystical bretheren were trying to impart through our humble auspices - don't you, Domenic-O?""Dat dose Scorpio Sisters ain't got nothin' on dem ladies from, you know, way back in the olden days?" the Duke laughed, employing his best wise guy immitation. "Dat dem priests, there, they just don't get down on their knees to pray..."  "Niko, how horrid of you! That isn't the meaning at all - the scrolls are about the mystical Chemical Wedding - the coupling of the King and Queen - didn't you read the page from Dali's L'Alchimie des Philosophes that the monks were kind enough to enclose? All great esoteric works are allegories - not to be taken literally. Each of the scrolls tells a story about art, beauty and or wisdom being born out of suffering...what child is ever the result of a painless birth? None of the men really were whipped, don't you get it?" "They're BDSM stories, Liv, fess up! Kink through the Ages...Dungeons and Dragons à la Frappy Cappys."  "No, they're not. Stop it. For your information, Hildegard of Bingen, that mystical medieval Abbess, wrote: The power of eternity itself has created physical union and decreed that two human beings should become physically one. Furthermore, an occult text known as The Crowne of Nature has the King and Queen of Alchemy wrapped in each other's arms in the bliss of connubial union merge and dissolve as they come to the goal of perfection. They that are two are made one, as though of one body. An early alchemical school, founded by Moses' sister, the great princess Miriam, wrote: see the fulfilment of the art in the joining together of the bride and the bridegroom and in their becoming one.""So, how does getting spanked translate into Ritual - enlighten me, for I am but an ignorant fool."  "Each of the scrolls speak of two human beings raised to their highest potential by an association with the other - a pact of love and respect - yes, perhaps even through a healthy dose of fear. I have a friend on the west coast, who goes by the name 22. Recently this wise woman wrote to me saying, Now Flamel is one of the more interesting purported members of this organization because he
understood a KEY concept which was lost later - that the balance of masculine and feminine energies MUST exist for alchemy to flourish. His experiments were conducted with the aid of his wife, Perenelle. Legend has it that he quit working once she passed away as he knew that he would never have proper balance available to him energetically without her. It's quite a love story, actually.""Okay, I can buy that - my life is much better for having known you." "Precisely - and likewise my own. As I wrote back to 22: You're right about the alchemical balance of M&F - I sat down and drew up a list once of all the great "chemists" whose alchemy was successful precisely because they were a couple - it's always there, always. Why, even in modern science we have the example of Marie and Pierre Curie. The same prniciple applies in poetry, writing, art and music, of that I am a firm believer. "The Muse and the poet syndrome? What if one is gay, or bisexual?"  "It goes deeper than the analogy of boy meets girl. The allegories of pain and dominance illustrate that inside all of us are two elements - Sun and Moon - masculine and feminine. We all seek a balance between these two polarities within ourselves - it is a constant struggle and almost always a bitter process...the great prize comes when the individual submits to the notion that they are neither wholly male nor totally female, but rather, a blending, an elixir of the two - the Hermaphrodite of Alchemy. Of course, it's a lot more fun to equate the philosophy to brilliant sex between two royal lovers...""I agree," Domenico smiled. "Why don't you go gather up some of your chemistry books and meet me in the boudoir?"  As the pair embraced tenderly, glad that their labors would indeed yield honeyed passion, neither was aware that an urgent email had arrived at the CyberSybil headquarters, a note of extreme importance from none other than the enigmatic 22 concerning the ancient land of pyramids and prophecies."More comely and more fair is she, This blue-eyed Sabian key, Than azure skies and Hebron's clouds," Was Solomon's decree. "Come with me down to Machpelah," The wondrous Sheba breathed, "Down to the cave of Life, the Four, Dark tomb of Adam's Eve." "From there we shall to Gizeh go, And see the world anew When gazing on the Pyramids grand, The cycles in plain view." "A worthy plan," the king declared, "Yet Priestess tell me more, Reveal to me the Mysteries, The Knowledge of Before." "Before was I, was She, was All," The regal lady spoke. "Join with me in Eternity To shed the astral yoke." For I shall show you my heart true, Speak poems from Yasher's page, That tell of goddess and of love, The secrets of the sage." So Solomon did join with She, The Ba, the Soul of old, A union of both head and heart, Which made Infinity's gold. Episode of Book Two A as in Agrippine. E as in Egyptian To Follow |
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