From Dion Fortune's "Sea Priestess"

"I am she who ere the earth is formed
Was Rhea Binah Ge
I am that soundless boundless bitter sea
out of those deeps life wells eternally
Astarte Aphrodite Ashteroth
Giver of life and bringer-in of death
Hera the heaven on earth Persephone
Diana of the Ways and Hecate
All these am I and they are seen in me

...Drink of the waters of Persephone
The secret well beside the sacred tree
Who drinks the waters of that hidden well
Shall see the things thereof he dare not tell
Shall tread the shadowy path that leads to me
Diana of the Ways and Hecate
Selene of the Moon,Persephone"
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Persephone Rising

waves of being
pass or' dreams
relentless in the risings
as those things that bleed
or need
such due consideration
love's determination to proceed
without caution
in fearless steppings over
being and not being
indifference to the question
can one gno
...to godlike fists in challenge
toward the ruddy skies
and one last matter of our big and little death
death as all deaths seen before
once again restore
or float
or fall
consider the eternal all
vertigo when set to mind

but then considering the smaller deaths
fretting at the thoughts and wonders
spoken outside of my realm of understanding
if i try to hold each word
to cause and meaning nature suffers
(poring over notes)
for this as tried and true to artists brush
a flowing paint of sound
movement through the interplay
of rift past rift
the compliment
is in the different knowings
owning all or one…
i sea the one…just one
again i say i see your care and patience
finding
voice to speak all names of gods
performing ciphers through the mind to brush
in comprehension
yes
again we turn toward excellence as well
as from the Will
and yet the shape and form
flows through our fingers
like the sacred springs

thought i
“long of words
that i might be attached to
what comes underhand?”
(your suggestion reminded me to consider this)
there may be places that this might be true
within a space of time
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if it doesn’t fit within my car(e)
when once again i set to shift my presence
from one place to place or' all the earth
“things”
are discarded
left
or given to a place of need
its in my heart to carry
only those things that remain eternal
love
care
trust
friendship
and freedom
manna
served to each as wedding cake from one another’s hand
this union of elements
performing the will of an unnamed source
that we hold close to our
being

talasa