She of High Mind

Then forthwith SHE went down from her virginity, and went down unto the SUNDERING FIELD.

And the LESSER LIGHT went out across the sky, and went out among the multitude of the STARS, and caused to CEASE from among them the VOICE OF MIRTH and the VOICE OF GLADNESS. And in the silent darkness the LESSER LIGHT was GLORIFIED ANEW, and NAMED ANEW, and made THRICE-NAMED.

And the LESSER LIGHT roamed above the field, seeing how it was SHATTERED in many places by the PLUNGING of the CANES, and seeing how SHE lay at its center, HEAVY and THRICE-NAMED and BURSTING, and seeing also the FOUNT beside HER, and the BLOOD filling the FOUNT, and how it FLOWED OVER to fall onto the field, and fell also onto HER, speckling HER brow with RED, and whispering to HER.

The LESSER LIGHT heard the whispers, wordless and RED, in which the blood of HER own SEED spoke to HER, saying:

The house of thy immanences, SISTER, is without parallel; it was made mysteried, and was glorified; it now fills up, and cannot but BURST; hide thy light no longer, but let it shine forth!

The LESSER LIGHT smiled, and went up, and went out before the GREATER LIGHT, and spoke to the GREATER LIGHT, saying:

I am before you, loved one, [illegible -MS] one; now we make a night beyond night, over the sundering field; we SHELL the field in our HOLY SHELL.

And SHE was upon the field, and BLOOMED over the field, and was SPLIT OPEN; she SANG of stars, breaking the starless SILENCE. The RAIN and SNOW fell onto her through the gaps in the CANE-SPLIT skies, and an OIL, fit for anointing, was rubbed over her skin. And a DIADEM was given to her head, with many JEWELS on it, to glorify her, and to sanctify the BURSTING house of her immanences, and to luminate [? barely legible -MS] the fustian and fell ones under the [illegible -MS].

And the LIGHT that poured from HER was GREATER-THAN-GREATER, and was IMPOSSIBLE, and was EMENDED, and WAS. And the QUEENLY brow of HER head was PROPERLY adorned, with JEWELS which were MORE-JEWELED-THAN-JEWELS, MORE-RED-THAN-RED and MORE-GREEN-THAN-GREEN, and these JEWELS caught HER lofty rays as they spilled out of HER, and GLITTERED.

And SHE ATE the grass of the field, and ATE also the fragrant DATES growing from the PALMS of the field, and thus was SHE made MADELEINGIAN, and [lettering becomes increasingly difficult to make out -MS] was made clamored [? -MS] and manyful [? -MS] and [rest of paragraph wholly illegible -MS]

And HER just-birthed litter were upon the field all around her, and they made themselves known with their MERRY VOICES, and they made themselves known by the SHADOWS that WENT OUT of them, and WENT DOWN from them, and WENT ALL OVER, and were MORE-RED-THAN-RED, and were EMENDED.

And SHE, RENT APART and BLOSSOMING, made to move HERSELF within the house of HER immanences, and bid HERSELF to REMEMBER how SHE had BEFORE birthed HER litter, and birthed too HER BRETHREN, in the epoch of [Gesule / Gesole / Gesul?] [unsure of the spelling here, lettering is very compressed -MS].

And on the field with HER stood also the RED ONE, SANTA CLAUS, close by to HER, and WATCHING her. And SHE SAW the GREATNESS of his body towering above HER, and SHE heard what spilled from his mouth.

He was MERRY, and MANY-TOOTHED, and he swept his great arm over the field, showing her all the SWEET CANES he had flung up from the earth, so that they PIERCED THROUGH the first firmament and through ALL firmaments, so that the hard ETERNAL surfaces of those boundaries were SHATTERED in many places, and CHASMS were made in them in the places where the CANES went through. Thus CLAUS showed HER how he had BROKEN the NINE AND FIRSTMADE FIRMAMENTS, and brought SWEET CANDY unto them, and RED AND WHITE FORMS which WENT INTO ONE ANOTHER and went ON AND ON!

Thus he showed her how his CANES had brought FORM unto the firmaments, and brought SHADOW unto them, and made them LAPSIFORM [? -MS], and HOURLY, and [this word is nearly illegible but might be either “ELECTRIC” or “ELEGIAC” -MS], and [rest of paragraph wholly illegible -MS]

And SANTA CLAUS said to HER, also, that these CANES were fashioned for EATING; that his many teeth knew well the SWEETNESS of these CANES; that SHE too should know their SWEETNESS.

And SHE stood up, and went out, and gnawed upon the CANES, the one and then the next, not passing over any one of them, but consuming ALL of them WHOLLY. And she came afterward to the FOUNT, and put her RED LIPS to it, and supped of the BLOOD that FLOWED OVER ITS EDGE.

And SANTA CLAUS watched HER, and watched the FORMS and SHADOWS leaking out of her.

And he was MERRY, watching her; his HO-HO-HO rang out over the field, and made the very FIRMAMENTS shake, and made CRACKS appear upon them.

And his MERRIMENT OVERFLOWED, and trickled down out of his mouth in streams, so that SHE was given over to the imager [? -MS], and made RACHELLINE and MIRRORED, to be held safe until what had been removed from her had been fully restored into her.

And the MERRIMENT of SANTA CLAUS flowed over, and fell into the DEEPS, so that the man JOHN RAVEN was fashioned, and cast down unto the DEEPS, to collect the BODIED BLOOD that pooled there; his MERRIMENT leaked down through the CHASMS, and formed from HER a formal cosm [? -MS], and fell onto HER litter, making them SWEET-CANED and SELF-MADE and [illegible -MS], and restoring unto them their name, HERSCHEL SCHOEN, and bidding them to REMEMBER how THEY had ALSO birthed HER from THEIR loins in the [several words illegible -MS], and ALSO sending them DOWN, and GOING INTO THEM, and [rest of paragraph wholly illegible -MS]