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Dry Canals of the Gathering

Those who crown themselves with miters and croziers Are dry and barren canals to which I shall describe Boats remain frozen in their abandoned and void place The waters being a simulacrum of doctrines Only the arid wind gives a sense of forward time The bubbling and fizzing spring they cut from themselves Those who pass by recognise there is nothing to drink Only worms and serpents live within the canals Their waters of void do not show heaven’s face above No vision of sparkling angels appears anywhere Nor can people see their face on the canals Behold the crown jewels of those called servants and watchers Inspired by this verse "Those people are dry canals." from The Apocalypse of Peter: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apopet.html

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