LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE
45. Go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all
things.
46. Subdue thy fear and thy disgust. Then—yield!
47. There was a maiden that strayed among the corn,
and sighed; then grew a new birth, a narcissus, and
therein she forgot her sighing and her loneliness.
48. Even instantly rode Hades heavily upon her, and
ravished her away.
49. (Then the scribe knew the narcissus in his heart;
but because it came not to his lips, therefore was he
shamed and spake no more.)
50. Adonai spake yet again with V.V.V.V.V. and said:
The earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes,
and be drunken thereon.
51. And V.V.V.V.V. answered and said: O my lord,
my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem
unto the children of men?
52. And He answered him: Not as thou canst see.
It is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some
value; but who shall determine the value? For it varieth
ever, according to the subtlety of Him that made it.
53. And He answered Him: Have I not the key
thereof?
Iam clothed with the body of flesh; I am one with the
Eternal and Omnipotent God.
54. Then said Adonai: Thou hast the Head of the
Hawk, and thy Phallus is the Phallus of Asar. Thou
knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou
knowest that these are one. But why seekest thou the
knowledge of their equivalence?
55. And he said: That my Work may be right.
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