| "But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in
the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with
a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to
lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but
whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall
gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye
shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in
the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to
come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love
you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all
pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you.
Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto
me! |
