Liber 418 (pdf) - Koyote the Blind

THE VISION AND THE VOICE
THE CRY OF THE 19TH ÆTHYR, WHICH IS CALLED POP
At first there is a black web over the face of the stone. A ray
of light pierces it from behind and above. Then cometh a black
cross, reaching across the whole stone; then a golden cross, not
so large. And there is a writing in an arch that spans the cross, in
an alphabet in which the letters are all formed of little daggers,
cross-hilted, differently arranged. And the writing is: Worship in
the body the things of the body; worship in the mind the things
of the mind; worship in the spirit the things of the spirit.
(This holy alphabet must be written by sinners, that is, by
those who are impure.)
“Impure” means those whose every thought is followed by
another thought, or who confuse the higher with the lower, the
substance with the shadow. Every Æthyr is truth, though it be
but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an
ape.
(Note.—All this has come to me without voice, without
vision, without thought.)
(The shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes
intense pain; as I go on from Æthyr to Æthyr, it seems more
difficult to open the Æthyr.)
The golden cross has become a little narrow door, and an old
man like the Hermit of the Taro has opened it and come out. I
ask him for admission: and he shakes his head kindly, and says:
It is not given to flesh and blood to unveil the mysteries of the
Æthyr, for therein are the chariots of fire. and the tumult of the
horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again
with equal eyes. I insist.
The little gate is guarded by a great green dragon. And now
the whole wall is suddenly fallen away; there is a blaze of the
chariots and the horsemen; a furious battle is raging. One hears
nothing but the clash of steel and the neighing of the chargers
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