The Riddle of the Initiate

The Song of Seven Veils

…From Heart to Head a Lay…

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My First is sinuous, scaly and smooth

It is found in lake but not in love,

what is below is like that above…

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My Sixth lies at sea and in

the depths of the night, it is hard

to engender this spark of light.

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My Second twinkles on high and

stands proud in the earth, this double

entendre is light strewn when birthed.

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My Fifth is a man-child

forgotten by time, adrift on

a lotus… the flowering kind.

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My Third is fire-bright and

flies like a flash, it is feathery

too, forever rising from ash…

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My Fourth is hawk borne

and can teach us to fly it is

also known as the Silent Eye.

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…From Head to Heart, a Way…

In Loving Light

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Will you solve the riddle of The Initiate?