Chapter 3

49. Yea, also verily Thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. I have bathed in Thee, and lost me in Thy stillness.
    50. That which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection.
    51. O Thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars!
    52. O Thou Son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be Thy name, and the Name of Thy Name, throughout the ages!
    53. Behold! I am a butterfly at the Source of Creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into Thine infinite stream!
    54. Also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the Abode; bear me away upon the Bosom of Nuit!
    55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire!
    56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenuously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life.

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