The Second Week: The First Meditation of the First Day, part the second and final

The first point is, that I view all the persons concerned; and first, the human beings living on the face of the earth, so different in manners, gestures, and actions; some white, and others black, and others of a vast panoply of colors; some enjoying peace, and the rest disturbed by wars; this one weeping, and that one laughing (and one of my names being et alia laughing and weeping); one well, another ill, many being born, and many, on the other hand, dying; with other varieties almost innumerable.

Next must be contemplated Antinous Nauigator, Tawûsê Melek, and Tlazolteotl, from the prow of the Barge of Millions and Millions of Years, looking upon all the races of humanity, living blind to the beautiful and sacred earth on whose surface they live, and making of it a Hell, though one whose fires Tawûsê Melek has extinguished with his tears.

Afterwards, we shall consider Inanna with Antinous Liberator saluting her; always applying something thence to ourselves, that from such consideration we may derive some fruit.

The second point is, to perceive by the inward hearing what all these deities are saying, as what the humans are saying, who on earth are conversing together, joyfully and sacredly blaspheming, reviling each other; what the deities are saying, who, are speaking to each other concerning all these things and their holinesses both separate and contextual; what Inanna and Antinous Liberator are saying, who; at the reed-marsh delta of a river, are conversing on the Neos Antinoopolis. By reflecting on all which things, or making some application of them to myself, I shall study to gather some fruit from each.

The third, following naturally, will be, to consider at the same time the actions also of the persons; as, for instance, how mortal men are treating one another with enmity and violence, killing one another, and all building a flameless Hell; how the Beast with Flowered Horns is performing eir Work in the world, how the Beast with Flowered Horns is enacting eir Will; how, also, Antinous Liberator is earning that title, and Inanna, bearing herself most regally, is wielding the holy measuring rod and line and marrying the shepherd.  From which things, applied by reflection, as has been said, to ourselves, we must gather fruit as we go on.

Lastly, I shall add a colloquy, searching out studiously words with which I may be able worthily to address each of the mup deities, whether considered in this practice or not; asking also, according to the affection I shall feel in myself, whatever may help in the enactment of my Will.  In the end will be intoned the Obelisk text.