Nature:

 

Nature:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”

TO NATURE.

NATURE, all-parent, ancient and divine,

0 much mechanic mother, art is thine;

Heav'nly, abundant, venerable queen,

In ev'ry part of thy dominions seen.

Untam'd, all taming, ever splendid light,

All ruling, honour'd, and supremely bright.

Immortal, first-born, ever still the same,

Nocturnal, starry, shining, powerful dame.

Thy feet's still traces in a circling course,

By thee are turn'd, with unremitting force.

Pure ornament of all the Pow'rs divine,

Finite and infinite alike you shine;

To all things common, and in all things known,

Yet incommunicable and alone.

Without a father of thy wondrous frame,

Thyself the father whence thy essence came;

Mingling, all-flourishing, supremely wise,

And bond connective of the earth and skies.

Leader, life-bearing queen, all various nam'd,

And for commanding grace and beauty fam'd.

Justice, supreme in might, whose general sway

The waters of the restless deep obey.

Etherial, earthly, for the pious glad,

Sweet to the good, but bitter to the bad:

All-wise, all-bounteous, provident, divine,

A rich increase of nutriment is thine;

And to maturity whate'er may spring,

You to decay and dissolution bring.

Father of all, great nurse, and mother kind,

Abundant, blessed, all-spermatic mind:

Mature, impetuous, from whose fertile seeds

And plastic hand this changing scene proceeds.

All-parent pow'r, in vital impulse seen,

Eternal, moving, all-sagacious queen.

By thee the world, whose parts in rapid flow,

Like swift descending streams, no respite know,

On an eternal hinge, with steady course,

Is whirl'd with matchless, unremitting force.

Thron'd on a circling car, thy mighty hand 

Holds and directs the reins of wide command:

Various thy essence, honour'd, and the best,

Of judgment too, the general end and test.

Intrepid, fatal, all-subduing dame,

Life everlasting, Parca, breathing flame.

Immortal Providence, the world is thine,

And thou art all things, architect divine.

0, blessed Goddess, hear thy suppliants' pray'r,

And make their future life thy constant care;

Give plenteous seasons and sufficient wealth,

And crown our days with lasting peace and health.

Our relationship with Nature is simply the manifestation of ideas resulting from our union with the LVX, these ideas are reflections of the Forms and involves a very specific state of consciousness, for these ideas to manifest, as inspiring us towards progress. The LVX, is generated with the Supernals, that descend into the lower worlds, with life and consciousness. Without the participation of consciousness, we would not be referring to the light as anything, thus, it is the relationship between consciousness and the world around it, that creates LVX. This cohabitation of Phanes, Aether and the Demiurge, creates what could be referred to as a child, and the relationship between the elements of consciousness, will naturally determine the health of this child. The child here spoken of, is created by what the Orphic Hymns call Nature. The universe is filled with opposites, and it is uniting ourselves with these opposites, through which we grow and develop higher faculties, with which we experience higher insights into reality. Hence, Nature is referred to as the procreative force, this naturally entails union of opposites, such as male and female. But in the simplest case, we may think of these opposites as subject and object, Phanes and Jupiter respectively. So, we may think of Nature, being the inspiration, that occurs from our dealings with the world around us. The following quote from Proclus serves to illustrate the above idea: “… Minerva fashioned the variegated veil of Nature, from that wisdom and virtue of which she is the presiding deity. Nature therefore, from her connecting and uniting power, and from her plenitude of seminal productive powers, has an evident agreement with Minerva; whose divine arts, according to the Orphic theology, reduce whatever is discordant and different in the universe into union and consent.” Minerva was a martial goddess, however unlike Aries, she wasn’t associated with bloodshed, but with progress, her role then being similar to Athena. It is through the office of Nature, that the play of creation is constantly enacted as union, dissolution (death) and birth, wherein the magician takes on the role of God as the creator.

“Love is the law, love under will.”