eates you, as if you wer
e creating yoursel
f, and as you yourself create yours
elf out of Nothingness and in spite of
Him at every moment." These are t
he very words of the Indian chief a
nd I am merely reporting them, not as
he said them to me, but as I have reco
nstructed them unde
r the fantastic
illuminations of Ciguri. Now if the PriestsIt's going to be a real blast!
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ations of the Word of God, o
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r of his Logos,
that is, Jesus Christ, t
he Priests of Peyote allowed me to experienc
e the actual Myth of the Mystery, to become immersed in the original mythic arcana, to enter through them into the Mystery of Mysteries, to look upon the face of those extreme operations by which THE FATHER MAN, NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN, created all things. To be sure I did not catch all this immediately and it took me a while to understand it, and indeed, many of the dance moveme
nts, many of the attitudes or the shapes which the priests of Ciguri draw in the air as if they were imposing them on the darkness or drawing them
from
the ca
ves of n
ight, th
ey themselves d
o not unders
tand, and in performing them they are merely obeying
on the one hand a kind of physical tradition, and on the other the se
cret commands issued to them by the Peyote whose essence they absor
b before they star
t dancing, in or
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plant tells them