Alif Balaam Yashin
SINISTERIST
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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
The goal of alchemy is to turn things into gold, a symbol for the quest of enlightenment. We attracted by the glitter of this but don't know how to get there. Here is the materialist earthy plane and 1st chakra. We believe we can "buy" our way into heaven and here the Fool becomes the Magus (Mercury) and the Magi Word is his magick, rituals, invocations.
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, it makes me wonder.
Our thoughts often lead us astray, or cause misgivings, the 2nd chakra is dominated by subconscious emotions (Yesod the Moon); the tree by the brook is none other than the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life holds the path to liberation and eternal life, and you can find it in music (a songbird) more than in the words. And wonder is the beginning of wisdom and rebirth.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
Those who "stand looking" may be wise teachers like The Hermit, guiding us on the path. And the Hermit is the one who "leaves" in order to retreat from the world for introspection. In our imagination, we can see that there is more to the world than meets the eye (smoke rings; perhaps can be taken as representing psychedelics, the "little smoke" that dissolves normal consciousness). The 3rd chakra element is fire (smoke through the trees), and the ring is the Wheel of Fortune, a time for decision. In the 3rd chakra, we develop our will.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
This verse is the heart chakra, and the prophecy of the new age dawning (Herald of the Dawn). To find the way, we need to listen to the music in our hearts, our inner place of trust and innocence, for music is the means of liberation (as occultist Paul Foster Case said). "Reason" refers to Justice, the virtue of the heart chakra; and in general, to higher truth, integration, balance, justice and brother/sisterhood for all people. According to Plato, Reason is the highest part of the soul.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
The 5th chakra verse is alchemical purification, where change and adaptation occurs. Pagan celebrations of spring, Liberation comes from choosing the right path (road). We can let our temptations rule us, or take the more conscious path (the virtue of Temperance, found in the 5th chakra). May, when we enter Gemini (a 5th chakra sign), we are approaching Summer. It is a time of "bustling" new growth, which the thyroid gland of the 5th chakra stimulates. Since the famous alleged "backmasking" or reversed speech of this verse supposedly reveals "Satan," it might confirm my attribution of the Devil tarot card (temptation) to the 5th chakra.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
We need to quiet our thoughts in order to see the visions in our third eye, the 6th chakra in our brains, which whisper to us on the wind; a symbol of spirit and its flight, like the two wings of the 6th chakra. "Whispering" refers to the "still small voice" of intuition. In the 4th verse it said the call would come soon; now it's happening, and the pathway is clear. The male Piper (Pan/Horned god) and female Lady (Feminine goddess) are joining, as in the Divine Alchemical Marriage.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.
The Crown chakra, where the divine connects us beyond our soul/self to the greater soul/Self. The "Lady we all know," can only be the Goddess: Sophia! She has many names, the universal divine feminine. She is the inner self of the Lady who originally bought the stairway to heaven, as the seeker on the path. She now appears in glorious white light and gold, which refers to the crown chakra where we feel the bliss of realization in which all are one and one is all. Saying that the all "are" one emphasizes that this truly is the many and the one, as one. This is the real meaning of turning lead into gold, like the spiritual alchemists do. And we can see the gold in all things (or their radiance, as in The Celestine Prophecy). Hearing the music of liberation, promised us in the 2nd, 4th and 6th verses, nirvana comes to us-- the rock of peace that stills all the rolls of craving (as the Buddha called it).
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