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- the known. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods their men are
- fools. Come forth, o children, under the stars take your fill of love. I am above
- Come forth, o children, under the stars take your fill of love. I am above you
- Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in
- globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu! Now ye shall know that the chosen
- For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is The winged secret flame
- to him is The winged secret flame and to her the stooping starlight.
- not so chosen Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! O azure-lidded
- serpent! O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! The key of the rituals
- and to him by a secret name which I will him give when at last he knoweth me
- not of thee at all since thou art continuous. None, breathed the light,
- the chance of union. This is the creation of the world that the pain of
- division is as nothing and the joy of dissolution all. For these fools of men and
- me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I
- only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear
- I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Then the priest fell into a deep
- the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. He
- learn and teach. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. The word
- must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. The word of the Law is Who calls us
- look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades. The
- unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way
- and not two: nay, are none! Nothing is a secret key of this law Sixty-one the
- it; I call it Eight, Eighty, fourhundred eighteen. But they have
- one: are not they the Ox and none by the Book. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals,
- of me Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name
- are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold, lapis
- servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress
- and wines that foam. Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom
- child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand
- first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked But thou hast
- the law of the fortress and the great mystery of the House of God All these
- all their numbers who are of us. The five pointed star, with a circle in
- rejoicing in my Secret Temple To me! To me! calling forth the
- me! To me! The Manifestation of Nuit is at an End. Nu! the hiding of
- Nuit is at an End. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Come! all ye, and learn the secret
- an End. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not
- the center, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. Yet she shall
- worshipper. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all
- remains. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee
- thou wast the knower, and me. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now
- light devour men and eat them up with blindness. For I am perfect,
- blindness. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by
- for there is a further secret. I am The Empress the Hierophant.
- They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength,
- strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
- the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever Nuit Hadit
- and stir the hearts of men with drunkeness. To worship me take wine and
- They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure
- against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man, lust,
- rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. I am alone: there is
- about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I
- Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast
- death A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture. A feast
- thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I
- deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, not other. Therefore the kings
- in thine heart and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Thou are
- our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart rejoice! We are one; we are
- hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy.
- thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be
- exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine and doubt
- for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. The length of thy longing
- among the Kings. Aye! listen to the numbers the words: A B K A L G M O R Y X R P S T O
- o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look
- the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. O be
- worship to the prophet of the lovely Star. Abrahadabra! the reward of Ra-Hoor-Khut.
- Choose ye an island! Fortify it! Dung it about with enginery of war! I will
- secret house Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy
- house Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret
- thy secret temple and that temple is already aright disposed it
- already aright disposed it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but
- to the world. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That
- them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! Sacrifice cattle
- the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! Ye shall be sad thereof. Deem not
- folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth.
- not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to
- to do this. The other images group around me to support me: let all be
- winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. For perfume mix meal
- For perfume mix meal honey thick leavings of red wine; then oil of
- me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full
- thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles
- soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice
- half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut. Then said the prophet
- me unveils the veiled sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whoso words are truth. I
- I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest
- Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:- I, I adore thee!
- the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum!
- in all the quarters [these are the adorations, as thou hast written] as it is
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- light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the
- O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
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- business way. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones.
- harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. But let
- an-hungered. But let her raise herself in pride. Let her follow me in
- jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men! Then will
- the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of
- original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the
- no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after
- whence I say not, who shall discover the key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key:
- then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be
- to the holier place. I am in a secret fourfold word the blasphemy against all
- as he hangs upon the cross I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed blind him
- the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your
- be utterly despised among you. Also for beauty's sake and love's. Despise also all
- fire. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are
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