LIBER
PORTA LVCIS
SVB FIGVRA X
I. I behold a small dark orb, wheeling in an abyss of
infinite space.
It is minute among
a myriad
vast ones,
dark amid a myriad bright ones.
2. I who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute,
all the bright and the dark, have mitigated the brilliance of
mine unutterable splendour, sending forth V.V.V.V.V. as a
ray of my light, as a messenger unto that small dark orb.
3. Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth:
4. Men and women of the Earth, to you am I come from
the Ages beyond the Ages, from the Space beyond your
vision ; and I bring to you these words.
5. But they heard him not, for they were not ready to
receive them.
6. But certain men heard and understood, and through
them shall this Knowledge be made known.
7. The least therefore of them, the servant of them all,
writeth this book.
8. He writeth for them that are ready.
Thus is it known
if one be ready, if he be endowed with certain gifts, if he be
fitted by birth, or by wealth, or by intelligence, or by some
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