Mem

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   I AM the Water of Life,The mute, dark mirror of substance,Reflecting myself unto myself.

   This is the womb of all beings.

   Changeless, this great deep of elemental WaterRemaineth forever pure.Because of thisIt possesseth the quality of stability.It holdeth all things in solution,Yet its own nature remaineth ever the same.

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   MEM is the murmuring of this great sea of life:And by the addition of its letters, M I M,Revealeth the number Ninety,Which representeth the operation of YESODThrough the Ten Lights of Emanation.

   Consider this well, O Israel,For as YESOD is the Foundation of existence.So are the Waters the substance of that Foundation.

   From WATER do all forms have their beginning,Even as it is declared in Genesis.

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   Remember, also, that I, the Lord,Make myself manifest in a fourfold manner,And then consider what is the meaning of the letter MEMWith respect to its numbering as Forty.

   Here thou shalt see the figureOf the four-fold elemental division of my nature,Working through the Ten Sephiroth.

   All this is held in the primal WATER.That element of creative potencyIs the matrix of all things.

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   Hear and forget not.I am both Father and Mother,And as Mother, I am She who bringeth forth andnourisheth.

   Yet this my maternal natureRemaineth virgin and unsullied,Though it be the womb of birthFor countless thousands.

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   Absorb thyself in this Great Sea of the Waters of Life.

   Dive deep in it until thou hast lost thyself.And having lost thyself.Then shalt thou find thyself again,And shalt be one with me,Thy Lord and King.Thus shalt thou learn the secretOf the restoration of the King unto his throne.

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   And in this path of StabilityShall my knowledge of Roots of BeingBe united to the glorious SplendorOf the perfect KnowledgeWhich is established in the mirrorOf the clear waters of HOD.For when the surface of those watersIs disturbed by no slightest ripple of thought.Then shall the glory of my Self,Which is thy true Self,Be mirrored unto thee.