Verse 52
At death the familiar arrangements loosen: body from command, name from speaker, possessions from owner.
Liber Plutonis - Chapter 53
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Verse 53
What frightened you as loss was already occurring each night in sleep and each year in age.
Verse 54
Do not manufacture an eternal personality to comfort a temporary one.
Verse 55
Look instead at the personality as causes meeting causes.
Verse 56
Memory depends on conditions. Mood depends on conditions. The body depends on conditions. Even the thought of independence depends on conditions.
Verse 57
That which arises through conditions has no separate throne.
Verse 58
Emptiness is not a dark substance behind things.
Verse 59
It is the absence of the isolated thing you kept trying to defend.
Verse 60
Thus the underworld need not be defeated.
Verse 61
Find the one who would enter it.
Verse 62
Search carefully: sensation, memory, fear, image, thought.
Verse 63
Each appears and departs.
Verse 64
If a permanent prisoner cannot be found, liberation loses its drama.
Verse 65
The gate stands open because no solid traveler was ever inside.