Liber Caeli - Chapter 4

Verses

The rulers counted seven lamps and declared the ceiling complete.

Then a cold light appeared beyond the eldest lamp, and their arithmetic became theology in retreat.

Do not worship the eighth because it embarrassed the seven. A larger prison remains a prison if you decorate the new corridor.

The gift of the stranger is not another throne. It is the suspicion that thrones end.

They told you Saturn was the last gate because every jailer prefers a finite map.

The seer looked past the gate and found no angel with a sword, only distance waiting to be noticed.

Call that distance Uranus if names help you walk. Drop the name when it becomes another wall.

Gnosis is not possessing secret geography. It is seeing that every geography appears in awareness.

The archon says: beyond me is nothing. The fool believes him. The rebel says: beyond him is everything. The sage checks.

A discovered heaven is still an object of knowledge; therefore it cannot be the knower.

Pass beyond seven, beyond eight, beyond the one who boasts of passing.

When no boundary is believed, the prison has nowhere to stand.

The cold planet turns on its side as if laughing at the word above.