Hymn to the Gnostic Godess (The Ash Tree)

(DISCLAIMER- This is a new and loose translation of Roy Bowers "The Ash Tree", if you like it thank Roy if you don't you can blame me...)

I am what you think I am

I am what you think you are

I am myself as I am and you as you are

And will be in times to come

I am the all and more of that with less

I am without form

I am without force

Yet form and force I am

I am the lover and the Beloved

I am the beast and his mate

I am the whole and the part

I am compassion healing pain

I am a diamond cutting stone hearts

I am a mirror gone dark

I am the well without water

From which all must drink

I am words of love that never speak

I am pain and tears and sorrow and grief

The rack, the noose, the gun, the stake

The hunter and the hunted

I am a head without a body

I am a body without a head

All this in part and still I am whole

I am night and sleepless fear and cold

For the dead are displayed to honor my rage

Yet I am as weak as woman when she knows my ways

And in this is the fullness of my strength

I am desire

I am love

I am the first created

I am the first of all sins

Behold I am She!

You must conquer me to release your soul

I am peace and compassion If you understand

Three times Three times Thirteen

Three still more and more

I am the dead

I am the born

The living dead, the dead that walk

The unborn and the cycle finished in turn

I am a root, a leaf, a tree

I grow upon memory as future and past

All things are mine to fashion

My end rests in eternity

I am breast of the infant suckling

I am the lover's embrace, constant and ever demanding

I am fickle and free

All have known me

But few have had me

And they are dead

Secret I be

Secret Me

The Secret I am I will forever Be

Yes an army marches at my side

For the cold and mighty wind I ride

The haunted warriors remember me

My nostrils filled with the scent of blood

Brilliant and terrible as the sunrise

Yet still I am the Rainbow Above the Flood

(reminds me of the Thunder, Perfect Mind and the Song of Taliesin, so beautiful)