(On a "day off" for these, I'm catching up posting diary entries that I didn't get added to these threads over the summer.)14. All this while did Adonai pierce my being with his sword that hath four blades; the blade of the thunderbolt, the blade of the Pylon, the blade of the serpent, the blade of the Phallus.
Most years I simply take this as a poetic description of the way the Angel penetrates and interpenetrates - the description strikes extremely familiar chords for me, even down to many of the specifics. And, of course, the correspondence of the "blades" to the four letters of the Name ADNI.
This year, because of something else I was working on, I was reminded that a four-bladed sword - a sword that has four blades all set at right angles to each other - must exist in four dimensions. The Angel is piercing us not only in 3D space, but in 4D. (It slices reality into 8 segments.)
15. Also he taught me the holy unutterable word Ararita, so that I melted the sixfold gold into a single invisible point, whereof naught may be spoken.
This was before
Liber ARARITA was dictated - but the idea of that book (all 7 chapters of it, climaxing in the dissolution description of the 7th) seems the idea that AC had in mind all those years. Or, putting it more simply, the very meaning of the notariqon A.R.A.R.I.T.A. declares that
The ONE is singular in the beginning of His Unity, the beginning of His uniqueness, and in His permutation. This way of viewing reality can lead to the experience described in the verse.