Liber Saturni - Chapter 3

Verses

The ring you fear is the thought that says: here I end, and there the world begins.

Disciple, inspect the border. You will find sensation on one side, sensation on the other, and no owner between them.

Saturn is useful when he denies you. The denied object reveals the hand that was reaching.

Do not curse limitation too quickly. A wall can expose the one who believes himself imprisoned.

The body grows old inside awareness; awareness does not acquire wrinkles.

Time devours every name you give yourself, yet the witness of the devouring is never found among the bones.

Shani may collect the debt of action, but ask first: to whom is the account finally addressed?

The ego wants liberation as its last possession. The gatekeeper laughs, because possession is the gate.

Sit beside the slow planet in thought. Let every ambition complete its orbit and return exhausted.

Lead is heavy because it dreams of being gold. Awareness has no metal.

Do not become proud of detachment. Pride wearing ashes is still pride.

The world says, endure. The sage asks who is enduring.

If sorrow comes, know it completely. Half-known sorrow becomes doctrine.

Nothing is outside the Self, not even the jailer you invented to explain the bars.

The last boundary is the belief that there must be a last boundary.

When Saturn has taken your titles, lovers, victories, failures, youth, and future, notice what he could not carry away.

That remainder is not a remainder. It was the whole before counting began.

Therefore bow neither to the planet nor away from it. Know the seer of Saturn.

The ring shines because the Sun touches fragments. So too the mind appears holy when awareness touches broken thought.

Freedom is not beyond the seventh gate. Freedom is the absence of the traveler.