Month: June 2012

Take a walk through Boston or any other city and see if you don’t see things around where there’s work to be done. Then take a look at those people over there who are idle and say, Wouldn’t they like to do the work? The answer is yes to both. There is tons of work to be done, and lots of people who would like to do the work. It’s just that the economic system is such a grotesque catastrophe that it can’t even put together idle hands and needed work, which would be satisfying to the people and which would be beneficial to all of us. That’s just the mark of a failed system. The most dramatic mark of it. Work is not something that you should try to escape from, or that ordinary human beings would want to escape from. It’s something you want to do because it’s fulfilling, it’s creative. There’s plenty of it around. It’s not being done because of the extreme inadequacies of the socioeconomic system.

In the realisation of Unity is the Hieros Gamos of the Divine Artist and the Muse, yet there is neither Lover nor Beloved – there is naught but the Mystery of the Agapae. In assuming the double form of the Opposer, the Adept achieves the Sacred Marriage of Life and Death within the Temple of Flesh, and thus begets the Child. The Adept, the Perfected One, is each moment born anew, like the Phoenix rising within the Flame of Transmutation. He goes forth robed in the verdant hues of ever-new life, the Holy Fool dancing upon the Dragon’s spine…