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Marcelo Motta Diary Entry Friday, 14 April 1972
Liber CCXXXI: A PERSONAL RESEARCH
Slightly after True Midnight, L.T. [Local Time] 0.44 am: Start preparations to invoke Geni of Dome of ס.
About 1.02 am: have just begun.
About 1.14 am: close Vision. Starting, saw a white flower, erect. Then thought came to me that the letters QST in the center of the Geni's sigil indicate the need for combining Q and T in S; a message I have already had.[1] I started "forcing", then remembered that this Vision, being Averse, is passive. So I made myself commune with the Geni. Thoughts came about Black and Red, and my poem "The night billows," etc.[2] Also, thoughts about studying on the "red dragon".[3] And lines in VII about our "red powder of projection" came to me. Also the thought, about verse in AL, that when HAD and Nu are one, this marks the birth of H-r-h. Eventually I closed the Vision and withdrew into this world.
Added later. Also the thought came that the Cauldron of Art is also the Cauldron of Hecate. (But of course!—reaction now to this insight. A truism.)
1—Yes, but as the old Athenian said of his fellow-citizens, they know, but do not practice! . . . 2—Reference to a poem by the Seer which involved the ideas of Night, Blood, Death and Abyss very closely woven, little understood by him at the time of writing, and which had very much disturbed and intrigued his physical "father", a person utterly hostile to Thelema. 3—It is considered pertinent to quote in full the poem by the Seer, untitled to this day:
The night billows in waves of darkness and blood. And when the time is past, and when the flesh is cold, The moment also passed, and the brink of the abyss That loomed in her eyes and trembled in her kiss Is gone, and done, is cast; the tale has been told; The tale of dark billowing night, of red and flaming blood.
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