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CALLASSA
DIVINUS
Invicta Veritate
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ECSTASY
Written by Callassa to her serene, darling baby
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Translation from the papyrus in Ptolemaic
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Scene : A personal and embellished room. Helios. Divine Callassa with the boy Philippus.
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“Come hither my birthed one as I take from the text.”
“For it is said, the Temple of Venus Genetrix, at the Forum of the Divine Caesar holds a golden statue of Queen Cleopatra, the mother of the Divine Caesar’s child here within, the goddess Venus Veneris, mother of all Romans.”
“Octavian, Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus did form the Second Triumvirate in which they are each elected now for five-year terms to restore order in the Republic and to bring divine Caesar’s murderers to justice.”
“And it came to pass.”
“Antony must depart Egypt due to uprisings in Syria, where governor Lucius Decidius Saxa is killed and his army seized by Quintus Labienus, former officer below Cassius, who now serves the Parthian Empire.
Our Queen, Cleopatra did embellish Antony, to her the most special one with 200 ships for his campaign. She would not see Antony again for the passing of long days and nights. Queen Cleopatra is to give birth to twins, a beautiful boy named Alexander Helios and a beautiful girl named Cleopatra Selene II. Antony, his children; Helios the Sun and Selene the Moon and be symbol of a new era of restoration.”
“And what until Actium my Callassa? The Divine Octavian? Read . . . . . ”
A long silence descends, until broken.
“I have disclosed these words ‘inside me’ heretofore. Yes. You have been inside me, here, where life begins again, the journey and the journeying, the ecstasy within the woman, within me. You are made different. You are born. No man is fully born, until he, as Octavian and Antony by Queen Cleopatra, were taken by the woman. The discarding of manhood and the replacing by the woman. The woman … The losing of all worldly things because they cannot ever be given back. Now, you have felt me most intimately. You should hold pictures of apples, of peaches and of ruby grapes taken from my hand. You are satiated by their sugar, but there can never be an end to you being taken, as the truly Divine Caesar and Marcus Antonias .”
“You are henceforth in my power, in my mystical mastery, in the shadow of most excellent Queen Cleopatra, I am Callassa Divinus. You will sleep with your head against my flooded gate and breath me forever.”
“You are to speak? Then turn to me, my Philippus and ask the question.”
“Callassa, what are you seeing? Imperator Caesar divi filius Augustus? Tell me.”
“You and I,” is my reply. “Just you and I, my born, what else is there?”
“I see you approve of my response.”
“How did you feel when I pulled you into me? Tell me.”
“The asking is a reliving of the experience, the enveloping and the holding. This reliving will be something I make you perform for the remainder in life, until life is lost. The understanding of the cosmos be the female you have known from childhood. The only one you have ever known and as all, ever shall. The discovering, the laughter and the joy. The growing ever closer. The orchard fruit the days of monuments through the skies. The beauty packed days ….
Toward the collision course.
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CALLASSA
Invicta Veritate
