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The
Golden Ass or
Metamorphoses
The moment
the sun put the darkness to
flight and ushered in
a new day, I woke
up and arose at
once.
Being an eager student of
the miraculous I examined
attentively the heart of Thessaly, renowned the world over as
the cradle of magic
arts and spells.
I
imagined that everything everywhere had been changed by some infernal spell
into a different shape - I thought the very stones I stumbled against must be
petrified human beings.
I thought the birds I heard singing and the
trees growing around the city walls had acquired their feathers and leaves in
the same way.
I thought the fountains were liquefied human
bodies.
I expected statues and pictures to start walking, walls to
speak, oxen and other cattle to utter prophecies, and
oracles to issue suddenly from the
very sky or from the bright
sun.
I saw a woman passing by with a train of attendants and hurried
to overtake her.
Walking with her was an old man; the moment he saw me,
'My God,' he cried, 'it's Lucius for sure,' and he embraced me and whispered in
the woman's ear.
"I'm Byrrhena: I expect you've often heard my name
mentioned as that of one of those who brought you up.
I implore you by
Diana there, do be warned by me: watch out for the wicked wiles and criminal
enticements of that woman Pamphile.
Never lower your guard as she is
a mistress of graveyard
spells."
I heard the magic word 'magic', so far from resolving to
steer clear of Pamphile, I itched to enrol myself as her pupil and to pay
handsomely for the privilege - in a word to take
a running leap right into the
abyss.
When evening began to fall,
Pamphile looked at the lamp and said: 'We'll have a cloudburst
tomorrow'.
When Milo asked her how she knew she said
the lamp predicted
it.
Milo laughed: 'That's quite a prophetess we keep here, this lamp
observes everything that happens in the heavens from her stand - or
observatory?'
I said, 'I can count this as the first of my own heroic
exploits, on the model of the Labours of
Hercules - for laying low
three wineskins is surely equivalent to dealing with
three-headed Cerberus.
I'm happy and willing to
forgive you for what you did and what I suffered in consequence - on one
condition. Will you do as I earnestly ask you, and show me your mistress when
she is actually practising her
supernatural arts?'
"This is deadly serious, you must be religiously
discreet about it," Milo said.
Photis came to me one day in a great
state of excitement to tell me that her mistress, having got nowhere in her
love affair by other means, was going that night to feather herself as a bird
and fly off to her beloved in that shape.
Pamphile used her magic arts
deliberately to transform herself into an owl.
I tore off my clothes,
and plunging my hands into the box I scooped out a generous portion of the
ointment and rubbed it all over myself.
I flapped my arms up and down
in imitation of a bird.
But no down or feathers
appeared!
Instead my hair became coarse and shaggy, my soft skin
hardened into hide, my fingers and toes lost their separate identity and
coalesced into hooves, and from the end of my spine there protruded a long
tail.
My face became
enormous and my mouth widened; my nostrils dilated and my lips hung down; and
my ears became monstrously long and hairy.
I meanwhile, though I was
now the complete ass and what had been
Lucius was a beast of burden, still felt and thought like a
man.
Three Objectives of Metememepyschosis
Metamorphosis
- to acquire
True Knowledge into the
Relationships of All Things;
- to acquire an
Ultimate Understanding of the
Noumenon;
- to
transmigration of the
Eternal Soul into Gnosis.
After years of observation, careful study of process', immersion
in multiple creative endeavors and mastery of the
nine levels of Druidic training a Druid achieves
Metememepyschosis
Metamorphosis which includes:
A full understanding of
intellectual
knowledge, emotional
knowledge and the difference between these and
True Knowledge;
The ability to transmigrate
the Eternal Soul between the
gnashing of teeth, Limbo and
Nirvana.
Druids can transmigrate the
soul of a wasteland king)
Total cognition of
shallow subadjacent time,
cyclical equidistant time and
the Rainbow Spiral of Golden
Time or Gnosis.
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