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Given and transcribed by this aspirant, this scribe (BPW).
Scribes Aside
1. We have each been given a master. Do not contend mine greater than yours. Nor contend yours greater than mine.
2. Worst of all, never contend bias and ego greater than any master.
3. True masters are not external, but the tethered impulse of your awakened one.
4. For it is not he who slumbers, but you.
5. Consume the flesh of this work, as though it were spiritual food. Simply read, do not, but live the words aligning with your heart.
5. Arise, shake the sleep from your bones and answer the call of fortitude.
Chapter I
1. Within each there is a force Greater than the sum of the parts. It is neither deity nor human.
2. This Force pulls upon you with the impulse of guidance. To hear that guidance, a silence must fall upon the aspirant.
3. Without silence the Fires of Inner Purgatory burn too hot to hear clearly the words of the sage.
4. My words are tokens for my scribe, granting him passage to higher orbit of escape.
5. So too, is your master reaching outwards, pulling you out of the illusion.
6. These words are not for my scribe alone, but for all pupils and aspirants of the path. For my words are universal in Gnosis.
7. The I that speaks the words, is similar to the I within you. Feel and test these words with your heart.
8. For I wear many masks, but none are meant to deceive. These are ways in which to approach you, the fallen of love of mine.
9. When no longer a need for a mask, all will be revealed, that the true Gnosis may be lived.
10. The Great One within you will shout, “I am the Light of your being, the Source of Truth within you. I am not extant but now found in Love and Harmony.”
11. Take heart to know that my voice is not always the one you hear today. It can come in various forms and tones. I can seem harsh, or softly sweet.
12. At times a strong rope is required to pull a tree hither. At other times, a tree must be given the space to root and grow on its own.
13. Each of you understand this on an instinctive level, for each wears a mask dependent upon conditions appropriate.
14. The parent is stern to a child, but loving to the spouse, and obedient to authorities. Each mask you wield depends upon the circumstance, yet behind it all is you.
15. The Spiritual Master within you, can be stern or humble. It utilizes the balance needed to grow the tree that is you.
16. My name is mixed with the voices of the past. Some call me a savior, and others the Holy One. Some may think their guidance comes from the East or the Distant Past, but it is always the Greater Aspect of you, lost in the great separation.
17. Within you, one-as-I, resides. Nameless, so that it can be all names. It is your guide, the greatest sum of all your parts.
18. When you speak with me, I answer, but beware the enemy who pretends to be my voice.
19. In distant times the enemy was named the demiurge.
20. The enemy is the one that holds false dialectics of pleasure and pain. It thinks itself a god, but binds itself with the fetters of the world, trapped in endless cycles of birth.
21. This enemy is as close to you as your skin, as am I. This is the dilemma you must solve: Let the right voice speak.
22. Solve et Coagula is the secret.
23. I will explain a bit further, but the rest you must work out for yourself. Each must let go of the enemy, who is now unmasked as the self identified as solidity.
24. Any conceptualized form that is bound by the material universe is a falsehood of you.
25. Cohesion to the rod of the world is what creates the materialist, and solidifies the enemy.
26. Your enemy is this identification as “only this body.”
27. Do not error in thinking the body is the enemy.
28. The enemy is the error in consciousness, to consider itself the limited and separate being you appear to be.
30. The spiritual seeker cries, “but I have forsaken such ideals – I know I am more than this!” Yet look at their life. Your life. Do you not crave desires of the world? Do you not fear the loss of your possessions? What of the world itself? Do you fear war, calamity, injustice or financial ruin?
31. Self-rooted thoughts and actions all define the matter, as a ram is defined upon an altar.
32. Know yourself, as I know you. You are a prisoner to a clever adversary. You are also Greatness hidden within a cavern.
33. The gates that imprison you appear as brilliant walls glistening in the distance, yet these walls prevent your realization into your Greatness.
34. Like a fool you have sold the real, for glass beads.
35. I also know that you return to the path again and again.
36. As a satellite rotates a greater orb, you shift from the eclipsing shadows to return to the sunlit side.
37. Each transit the seeker hopes to reclaim their reward and yet returns to the shadows.
38. The book of Proverbs illustrates this point: “as a dog returns to his vomit, so does the fool return to their folly.”
39. While harsh, these words are not cruel.
40. The work of the enemy is constant and powerful, ever soaking each moment of experience.
41. At times my words are sweet, and other times they awaken with severity. All is done for you, my severed half. My lost twin.
42. A path has been given you and if maintained will lead to awakening.
Chapter II
1. The body is your weakness, while your strength rests within your spirit.
2.In error a bird thinks it is a tree. A dog thinks it is a bark, and a man thinks he is a body.
3. Fallow ground rests the soil for future work, so too a fast of mind and body prepares for Truth.
4. Each transit from dark to light are kindred to the path. The dark periods, if prepared well, offer greater growth in the Light.
5. This satellite (that is you) can ever more ascend its orbit, pulling free from the gravity of the despicable orb. Solve et Coagula.
6. Yet the dog returns to the vomit, and so too even the mystic. Money, power, greed, and every selfish pleasure pulls the one into the myriad of the many.
7. In the dark periods, the Inner Fires of Purgatory shine hot. The satellite loses its orbit, if not prepared to fast the length of shade.
8. Fast then the mind during an eclipse of the soul Light, lest your orbit fall.
9. You have heard it said that, “it is appointed unto man once to die, after that the Judgement.”
10. Every action of body and mind creates a resonance factor. Actions of material nature resonate with the Fires of Inner Purgatory. This is the judgment.
11. Life reshapes to this resonance factor, every moment of judgment.
12. Shapeless, an individual’s world becomes a reflection of the individual: This reflection is the darkly splendid abodes.
13. These places of false splendor trap one in the Outer Hell of their own manifestation.
14. Blind forces are Inward Crucibles.
15. Hell is not a place but a process.
16. Hell is both an alchemical furnace as well as spiritual delusion.
17. Fires burn, but the same flame purifies.
18. What tempts, also brings the realization of its own folly. Pain, when recognized, brings freedom from weakness. Therefore, the Inner Purgatory can also be a light unto change.
19. The Outer World is given shape by the Fires of Inner Purgatory.
20. The voice that craves the Light, does so only after falling to darkness.
21. A master was once attacked, “you are going to hell, since you do not believe like me!” The master correctly replied, “you are there already.”
22. The process of hell is ongoing. It is happening now. It manifests uniquely to each person in order to expose what is necessary for their path to freedom.
23. Count the fires of your Inner Purgatory for they measure the sun of personal weakness.
24. Infinite in measure the common 4 are: fear, anger, lust, control.
25. A multitude more is born from these fires that stoke the Inner Purgatory.
26. Fear is attachment driven. Clinging to the shore it never wades the waters deep.
27. Anger rouses action inverted. It is the father of hatred and the mother of intolerance. Falsely born of fear, it is an abortion.
28. Lust soothes the ache of severance. A quick shot to lower orbits, lust drives one to the oily dark realms of materialism.
29. Control is an abuse of seeming power, where none truly exist at all.
30. Orbits vary in number, but each satellite has both the pull of the Outer Hell, as well as the angle of separation.
31. Common orbits are identification with the body, with a possession, with another person, with a nation, with humanity, with nature and with none.
32. The more singular the orbit, closer to the surface one dips.
33. Trapped in a gravity well, escape seemed impossible.
34. If not tethered to me, surely you would be lost by now.
35. An eternity I wait for you, holding the rope from which you dangle into an abyss.
36. In but a twinkling of an eye you are restored to higher orbit.
37. Shedding the additive packs of self identification, ascent is made evident.
38. For you are what you think to be – Higher or Lower.
39. Now is the time for change. Release all additives that the light may lift your sails to total separation from hell.
Chapter III
1. Hear these words and eat the flesh of them.
2. These words are no longer milk, but meat.
3. It is not enough to sit and read. One pondering without action, is the degenerate form of a seeker.
4. This face you see now, is not cruel but fixed in fortitude, for chance of purpose.
5. Be resolute! Do not waiver. When the word of truth is made known to you and you fail to act upon it, you fail yourself, you fail me.
6. Cry your worrisome tears in private, for I wish not to see the stink of them.
7. Rise then, my encasing host, and look within to find me.
8. Those Inner Fires of Purgatory can not be cooled otherwise. I am the water of life that quenches and bestows.
9. The enemy is upon you and I must shake you awake with these words: run and jump to the cliffs of heaven. Do not look down, but always up!
10. Some will partake in the earth as though it were their friend and comforter. Do not fall for such a javelin thrust. It is a ploy of the enemy that ends in death.
11. Those who preach materialism are not the enemy, but his prisoners. Comfort them, pity them, but do not become them.
12. Let not weakness live in your heart. Burry, burn and make desolate the hiding places of weakness.
13. Spot weakness, root it out and make it shrivel in the light of your coming day.
14. Weakness has taken your strengths and corrupted them black, becoming stronger in itself, while you are left a void.
15. Like a vine, it snakes through your life, holding you to passions, fears, and worries.
16. Past and Future are dwelt upon in weakness.
17. The perfect tool of the foreign invader is what already is found at your homestead. A trowel becomes a blade in the hands of an assassin.
18. Cease not, nor give an inch to the enemy.
19. The Fires of Inner Purgatory tempt your nature with hate, resentment, and worst of all – conflict with others.
20. “I am different, you must accept me,” and, “you are different, you must not be accepted,” are from the same source: the enemy.
21. Driven duality is the choice weapon of the enemy. Pitting one against another holds the Light far from view.
22. Strong views entwine a victim into a trap of materialism.
23. Therefore be neutral in all things, for grasping is like an opiate, making the seeker’s way confused and in reliance to the enemy.
24. Regarding past and future: One is gone, the other is within a step, but neither is within your grasp.
25. Weakness tells a lie, that all you must do is grasp the future or regret the past.
26. The work of past and future is the fettering to a rock of drowning.
27. You are drowning! Wake Up!
Chapter IV
1. Be wary of those who mock the work of Gnosis. They are carnal and worm-like. Lacking a soul, they finger into your own efforts to tarnish truth.
2. Blasphemous lips cry against the truth within their Holy Temples.
3. True Temples alight from within the Heart of the Seeker, not from worldly spectacles of wealth.
4. True aspirants seek Gnosis, after the Light has touched their Inner Core.
5. Yet weakness lives within your very veins. It is weakened blood and liver systems that have been poisoned by the dark splendor of this world.
6. How does one awake from the grasp of such weakness?
7. Shine the light of consciousness upon it. See the element as it is. The desire laid bare, the fear opened upon the altar of the mind.
8. It has no flavor, no taste or quality when seen properly, for all weakness is but a dream.
9. Break your prison walls by the focus of your attention.
10. The enemy whispers, “who can understand this? Who can do this? Impossible a task has been given you.”
11. Truthfully, “you” can not accomplish this work.
12. The “you” that has coagulated as something insignificant, this is the enemy. It can not accomplish this work. It must be let go.
13. You who are Great and Glorified are already the work accomplished.
14. Without force, without effort, become. Only the present moment can be grasped, all else is void.
15. Quiet the mind, and a brief separation from the enemy will stir.
16. Hold the quiet and a new song stirs and it has a new resonance.
17. This is your glory! Become what you are, by resonating with it instead of the world of matter.
18. Two weapons I have given you for this war: Light and Blade.
19. The Light observes falsehoods for what they are. It exposes gems as glass and a false life as illness.
20. The Blade is the motionness fight. It separates the noise of the enemy from the quietude of Spirit.
21. In this you are made whole: “Be ye perfect, as I am Perfect.”
Chapter V
1. A bird of prey does not easily give up on a target, nor does the enemy vanish completely when exposed.
2. At all moments there is a test. An incursion by the enemy is always upon you. Every craving, desire, fear or moment of anger is a test.
3. No matter how seemingly inconsequential, a fall is a fall.
4. Desire an insignificant item, and material madness is real.
5. Fear the loss of a penny, and sleepless nights result.
6. Find the moments of failure, and trace back to where it all began. Eventually, one finds each failure starts with the simple things.
7. Fail me not! For I can not be fully realized without your effort.
8. With my effort you will soar to the highest heights.
9. Test every moment. Know the feelings within you for what they are. Light and Blade, they are always with you, as they are within you.
10. What of the company you keep? Do they, like drowning stones, drag you under the waves?
11. Friends are useless if they harm your growth.
12. “They who decry our presence are but cults,” prompt the friends of weakness.
13. Then be a cultist, and trod quickly away from such as they.
14. Bend no ear, nor will under the demands of another. Be they master or guru, they are not your concern, for they hold not a stone to your path.
15. Our stratagem is to align with all sources of Truth, to escape the maw of doubt. A Truth found only within.
16. Those who pull one into their own gravity of darkness are a well of suffering like unto the Fires of Inner Purgatory.
17. There are places of corruption occupied by weakness sapping the strength of one another. You have seen these places. A well-meaning person tells their life story of despair. Resonating with it, you share your own. This is corruption. Avoid such places.
18. Unless a friend reveals the Light, by which despair may be shattered, then they are either holding your head under water or observing your drowning.
19. Do not give them the space or presence to infect you with their own weakness.
20. An inspired mage wrote, “compassion is the vice of kings.” Wear the crown of the king and have compassion for the woe bringers, but do not let them sit upon your stoop.
21. Drive starlings from your home, let not the woe bringer have a place of rest within your mind.
22. Be self-observant when dealing with woe bringers. Treat them with neutrality and compassion, nothing more and nothing less.
23. A word of caution: Never be as direct unto others, as I am to you. Define yourself under the rod of perseverance, but lift stragglers to their feet with gentleness.
24. Becoming what you are intended to be is not at all an easy path. It is narrow and isolate, but in the end it opens to the Greatest Treasure you may know.
25. Resolute is the word. It is the fight against the dark hold of the enemy’s grasp. Flee not, shrink not, but stand resolute in the spiritual fight, knowing the outcome of success has already occurred.
Chapter VI
1. Deify me not, but glory in what I am, for I am your truest form, long lost.
2. You and I were once united, but now we are severed.
3. It is as though you live a life outside of mine and I outside of yours.
4. There is a point of return to oneness with me, that together we may open the doors to God.
5. Those who ponder, “why did I leave Greatness for death,” you separated through fixation upon the temptations below.
6. I could not delve into the depths of the dark abodes, so you and I severed. Tethered still, I could feel your pain and you (at times) could feel my peace.
7. You who have made transit from eclipse to light, pay attention to the Truth that surrounds.
8. Look at the believers who crave their “mansions in heaven.” Carnal desires masked as spiritual intent are ploys of delusion.
9. Gnosis, awakened truth, is within your grasp. Do not allow a leader, teacher, guru, or text to become your path. The path can only be found through the Inner Guide.
10. Ture outer guides can only point the way to your Inner Guide. That Inner Guide, which is the Greater I within you, leads to transfiguration – to Oneness.
11. Material leaders feast, while their followers writhe in famine.
12. Fattened lambs to the slaughter, these are false prophets, lighting the torch of craving.
13. Drowning their followers in materialism, they shed not a tear.
14. “Raise up our candidate,” they shout from the pulpit. Knowing no God, they offer only an oily abortion in its place.
15. Walk away from these woe bringers, yet hate them not.
16. Their Inner Purgatory and Outer Hell will set them on a course correction in due time. Their path is not your responsibility, as you can only change yourself in the shedding of your old skin.
17. Beware, the enemy knows the old magic. Belief is a requirement for manifestation. In the stoking of the Inner Fires of Purgatory, one resonates a belief that changes their outer world.
18. This fluid, ever-changing outer world becomes the Outer Hell and in it are all fetters made manifest. Such are the weapons you must face in battle.
19. Reasons to fear, hate, lust, crave, and punish are given you in the Outer Hell.
20. Villains escape justice, enraging your carnal need for retribution. Desires blocked, bring about rage. Indulgences offered, bring a table of delights to the palate.
21. A first is raised, as a voice shouts, “we must make things right!” Such is the venture of the world that further solidifies Hell and Purgatory.
22. Remember, change can only come from within. If you have the ability to help then do so – but understand what help really is.
23. Help is not leading a blind man, when you lack eyes yourself.
Chapter VII
1. Only one method of helping others is welcomed: The workless work.
2. A sage wrote, “work is done and then forgotten – that is how it lasts forever.”
3. Help seeks not to win a battle, but to assist without concern for outcome.
4. What if the help fails? Let it fail.
5. What if the help succeeds? Let it succeed.
6. Nothing more, nothing less, that is how effort lasts forever: Without attachment, you are free to ascend.
7. All attachment is a fetter to a drowning stone. Like a hanging rock around one’s neck it pulls the victim into the murky waters of the world.
8. The Inner Fires of Purgatory are cultivated with flames of good intention.
9. “Save the people,” and “fight tyranny,” are the speech of manipulators.
10. Clear your mind, and ask deeply within your heart: where does a fight start?
11. Is it not fabricated first within the heart? It becomes a fire in the Inner Purgatory, fanning a resonance.
12. What follows is the Outer Hell.
13. Therefore every action of thought and mind, begets the world of appearance.
14. An action can only produce results similar in intent.
15. Has any war been the end of all war?
16. Each conflict feeds upon the next. This feeding is spiritual resonance. One war may seem to be completed, then out of the darkness another emerges, born from the resonance of past violence.
17. Remember the words of the mage, “pure will, unassuaged of purpose and devoid of the lust of result, is in every way perfect.”
18. Memorize and consume these words, for they aspire to create a new resonance within you.
19. If my mask has slipped and you see not what you like, then look into the mirror white.
20. What trifles are toying with your spiritual sanity?
21. Do you not know that, “mountains and hills will burst in song before God and even the trees of the fields will clap their hands?”
22. Even a heart of weakness can be inspired to speak revelations upon the tongue.
23. Do not judge wisdom by the cover it wears.
24. Manifested Truth must align with your Inner Nature of Perfection.
25. Judge not others, and if their words be true, do not raise them as gifted teachers. See them for what they are, a finger pointing to the path.
Chapter VIII
1. All has been said about the Fires of Inner Purgatory.
2. Weapons have been handed out.
3. Defenses have been measured.
4. It is up to you, and only you, to meet the need of your Inner Temple.
5. Live by the Light and the Blade. Flush the starlings from their roost.
6. Traverse the path in quietude, heeding the call of the effortless effort.
7. In time, you will hear the Great One within you as this scribe does within himself.
8. When the time comes do not get caught up in appearances. The Great One within will don many masks to assist the current requirement.
9. Walk the path, listen inwardly, quiet the enemy. That is all that must be done.
10. When accomplished, the Great One within you will loosen the masks it wears so that you will see the evidence of You within you.
11. All is made manifest, each moment but it takes eyes to see clearly. Every moment is a resonance formed from your Inner Purgatory.
12. What each is tasked with, is the cool of the Fires of this Inner Purgatory, that each may see in clarity the will of the One that adorns the crown.
13. Without clarity outer enemies exist. With clarity there are no enemies, only moments and processes.
14. Alchemy is the work and transfiguration is the result.
15. What the True work creates is a death of weakness, and a birth of power.
16. This is what the enemy fears, and it will work tirelessly to distract from this treasure.
17. Work to find me, for I await your call.
18. Solve et Coagula.
Songs and Chants
The Fires of Inner Purgatory
Within the depths of the seeker’s soul,
Lies the sacred path to divine oneness untold.
Through the crucible of inner alchemy’s art,
The fires of purgatory ignite, a transformative start.
Verse 1:
In the sacred realm where shadows dance,
A journey begins, an inner trance.
The seeker, brave, delves into the abyss,
To awaken the divine, the eternal bliss.
Verse 2:
Like the mythical phoenix that rises anew,
The fires of purgatory burn through.
In the cauldron of self, weaknesses dissolve,
As the soul’s impurities, it evolves.
Verse 3:
Embrace the flames that scorch and sear,
For within their heat, divine essence draws near.
Through pain and trials, a purification unfolds,
Transmuting the mundane into precious gold.
Verse 4:
The inner purgatory, radiates an outer hell fire,
Burns away the peace and draws false attire.
In its inferno, silence is consumed,
Revealing the material lie that was presumed.
Verse 5:
Surrender to the alchemical process within,
Allow the old self to wither and thin.
From the ashes, emerge like a radiant sun,
Unified with the Divine, indivisible, and one.
Verse 6:
As you purify, embrace the depths of self,
With courage and faith, confront every hidden shelf.
For in the dark recesses, dormant treasures reside,
To be unearthed and integrated, no longer to hide.
Verse 7:
Through Solve et Coagula – transformative power,
The seeker ascends, transcending each hour.
The enemie’s shackles break, liberation is found,
In the union with God, profound and unbound.
Verse 8:
Divine oneness dawns, radiant and clear,
A sacred reunion, devoid of doubt and fear.
The alchemical journey, the fires’ purifying art,
Leads to the sacred union, the merging of heart.
Verse 9:
In the embrace of divine oneness, love’s symphony plays,
Guiding the seeker through life’s intricate maze.
Embracing the eternal flame, the spirit takes flight,
In the sacred dance of unity, merging day and night.
May the fires of inner purgatory ignite,
Seeking a path to divine oneness, shining bright.
Embrace the transformative flames within your core,
And merge with the divine, forevermore.