Liber Neptuni - Chapter 56

Verses

Verse 24

Varuna, keeper of the wide law, your waters enter places where witnesses cannot stand.

Verse 25

The lie thinks itself hidden because walls interrupt human sight.

Verse 26

Water enters the crack and remembers the shape of the stone.

Verse 27

Let ṛta be not a command from above but the quiet fitting of things to what they are.

Verse 28

The ocean does not become truthful by speaking. It reveals the weight of every vessel placed upon it.

Verse 29

We confess not because heaven is easily offended, but because division inside the mind is a poor country to inhabit.

Verse 30

Loosen the knot made by the mouth when the heart already knows.

Verse 31

Let the hidden spring rise without boasting that it created thirst.

Verse 32

The sun is reflected in a thousand wells and is not divided among them.

Verse 33

So awareness appears in creatures without becoming a thousand awarenesses.

Verse 34

May the deep teach vastness without teaching vagueness.

Verse 35

May compassion flow without drowning discernment.

Verse 36

May every oath return first to the one who speaks it.

Verse 37

And when names sink, let what is true require no name to remain.