THE DOOR OF NIGHT SUTRA
Part 1; INTRODUCTORY VERSES
1
‘Come, child of a knowing family,
Approach the door of night
along the flowered pathway of thy sleep.
The Hosts of Heaven slumber beyond
Come and behold them, and ask of the dark
It’s secrets'.
2
‘The horned mantle crowns the porch-
a door with stars studded
down the purple blossomed stair.
Approach now, fearing nothing
though impotent demons appear,
brush calmly past, and lordly-
enter into Sentient Night’
3
‘In the beginning, there is the Night,
and this darkness hums eternal
with a fathomless Sentience pervaded
It’s tides give rise to All.
Here child is the groundwater
Stirring as becoming’s sea
Formlessness, Emptiness is the deep’
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Part 2; COSMOGONY IN DIALOGUE
The Seer- Emptiness! Then I see a grey and lilac expanse of sky. Laced through, it seems, with shimmering points of light. Vast beyond vast. Endless. What is all this?
The Seen- This is the first born. The birthed from the deathless. My Womb. This is the Universe. Not as unmanifest, but at it’s primal manifestation. Time is here, but waits. King Saturn is at rest. Invisible here is my dark sea. Doubly invisible, the Formless. Presently, you will witness the birth of my son, fathered by lord Time. Tell me of what you see.
The Seer- I see, rising from the first horizon, a great Sun, effulgent, sublime. A pearl white light, ringed in colours, emanating saffron, pink tinged, carnelian, an opal sphere. All and more.
The Seen - Behold, the birth of the Intellect, the Sun of Creation, my son. Now does the Father stir in my fold. Now does Time commence his dance. Now the Mind begins again it’s living. Again, the Cycle has begun it’s ascent.
Part 3; COSMOGONY FROM SILENCE
Silence
Silence before the Mother,
the Lady of the Lamp-
Wisdom!
She abides at the base in silence,
As silence is at the base of the entire World
Peace
Always, the Ocean of Darkness,
Spiritual, Silent, Eternal, One, Emptiness
Benevolence
Then, rising, the ball of light and sound,
Intelligible, all powerful, the unity of all
Generosity
Then, the Stars
Creative, intellectual, physical, metaphysical
Compassion
They light up the Great Vault,
all containing, everliving
Peace
Always, the Ocean of Darkness,
Spiritual, Silent, Eternal, One, Emptiness
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THE DOOR OF DAY SUTRA
At the Door of Day, the high chair of augury is revealed by the setting sun. The seer of twilight, the seer of Aucra sits there. On the cool breeze of evening, in dream, I flew to the lofty platform. The blessed seer on the granite throne kindly revealed the wisdom. I listened as last light rays flamed as burnished fire in the shadows
THE SEER Of AUCRA;
The Seer of Aucra spoke- ‘when one understands that the entire universe, the waking world and all of its variegated phenomena, it’s sensations, appearances, the patterns, progresses, and regularities, all are like a dream, a flux without any independently existing substances, without any real independent selves, and that all is one great creative intuition-like dream, a dream of Universal Mind, then one can begin to hatch from the shell of ignorance , yea -and the suffering of ignorance'