Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet, "On Love"

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of (Conscious) Love." 

And he (Almustafa, the Chosen and Beloved of الله Allah) raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: 

When love (גדולה Gedulah, the Spirit, the Innermost) beckons to you follow him, 

Though his ways are hard and steep (through the path of the spinal column, the reed or staff of initiation). 

And when his (solar) wings (that open upon the Caduceus of Mercury) enfold you yield to him, 

Though the sword (of Kundalini) hidden among his pinions may wound you (your ego). And when he speaks to you believe in him, 

Though his voice (the Voice of the Silence) may shatter your (egotistical) dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 

For even as love (גדולה Gedulah, the Spirit, the Innermost) crowns you (with a crown of life, כתר Kether, the Father; Revelation 2:10) so shall he crucify you (through initiation). Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning (of your inner tyrant, your egos; Isaiah 25:5). 

Even as he ascends to your height (of the Tree of Life)and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun (the Solar Logos, the Trinity: כתר Kether, חכמה Chokmah, בינה Binah), 

So shall he descend to your roots (at the tree of زقوم Zaqqum, the tree of death in Islam, the Klipoth of Kabbalah, the inferior worlds) and shake them in their clinging to the earth (מלכות Malkuth).

​Like sheaves of corn (plants which assimilate the Solar Christic Force) he gathers you unto himself (He strives to unite all the diverse parts of the Being). 

He threshes you (provides you ordeals) to make you naked (innocent, like Adam and Eve before the fall). 

He sifts you to free you from your husks (egos, Klipoth, shells). 

He grinds you to whiteness (through the wheel of Karma). 

He kneads you until you are pliant (in contemplation and meditation); 

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire (the Kundalini awakened through the perfect matrimony), that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast (the sacred initiations within the temples of the Superior Worlds). 

All these things shall love (גדולה Gedulah, the Spirit, the Innermost) do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart (the Universal, Abstract Absolute Space, the Spirit of Life Free in its Movement). 

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, 

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness (your shame born from fornication, as Adam and Eve were after the fall) and pass out of love's threshing-floor (the ordeals of a matrimony and of initiation), 

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. 

Love (גדולה Gedulah, the Spirit, the Innermost) gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. 

Love (גדולה, the Innermost) possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love (for "my God is God," אליאל). When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God (the Absolute Abstract Space, الله Allah)." 

And think not you can direct the course of love (the straight path of the Bodhisattvas), for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 

Love (גדולה Gedulah, the Spirit, the Innermost) has no other desire but to fulfil itself. 

But if you love (consciously) and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: 

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night (the Divine Mother Space). 

To know the pain of too much tenderness. 

To be wounded by your own understanding of love; 

And to bleed willingly and joyfully (to die to the animal ego with happiness and contentment). 

To wake at dawn (for runes, meditation, and esoteric exercises) with a winged heart (or the longing to know divinity) and give thanks for another day of loving (through a perfect matrimony); 

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; 

To return home at eventide with gratitude; 

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved (الله Allah, the divine) in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

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