The Holy Books

Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows ; they feel not. We are not for the poor and for the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, Ο king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength and Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star and the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship I5