4I. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house:
all must be done well and with business way.
42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself,
save only the blind ones.
Refuse none, but
thou shalt know and destroy the traitors.
I
am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to
protect
my servant.
Success is thy proof:
argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch!
Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow
thee,
them attack without pity or quarter;
and destroy them utterly.
Swift as a trodden
serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier
than he! Drag down their souls to awful tor-
ment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!
43. Let the
Scarlet
Woman
beware!
If
pity and compassion and tenderness visit her
heart; if she leave my work to toy with old
sweetnesses;
then
shall
my
vengeance be
known.
I will slay me her child: I will
alienate her heart: I will cast her out from
men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall
she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die
cold and an-hungered.
44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let
her follow me in my way! Let her work the
work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart!
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