MARBAS.--
The fifth Spirit
is Marbas. He is a Great President, and appeareth at first in the
form of a Great Lion, but afterwards, at the request of the Master,
he putteth on Human Shape. He answereth truly of things Hidden or
Secret. He causeth Diseases and cureth them. Again, he giveth great
Wisdom and Knowledge in Mechanical Arts; and can change men into
other shapes. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits. And his Seal is
this, which is to be worn as aforesaid.
The engines of Hell
and East Chicago
melt steel, stones,
slag
without rest.
shower Sulpher,
Benzene, Hexane
secret apothecaries
of the virulent air
The mouthless
doctors rain radiation
on the tubers and
growths
of that terrible
forest
this is called curing
this is called curing
like meat hung in
smoke
these subtle
engines,
lenses and knives
this unlight and
it's images
hellebore and henbane
hellebore and henbane
to cease the
blossoming of black threads
in the blood,
unravel the knot
tied by the
malicious, the greedy
the bezoar stones,
the jewels from the
toad's head.
This terrible garden
in the sterile
rooms, they cut away
the heart,the lungs,
the rotten Pith
the opening of the
mouth
is called healing
time is a physician,
and death.
what shapes will we inhabit
when we have been
shaped,
by what they have
cut away,
by the bone and
sinew we have lost
the blood and marrow
freely given
what faces we will
wear?
walking head upright,
in the marshes
the going forth by
day
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