Collected Works (Vol. II)

224 AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM Amen. The pharynx to Mahabonisbash, the great angel; To seven-and-thirty myriads of legions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to each one; To ninety and one myriads of the Elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world ; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarp and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K., C., B., C., G., T., N., H., I., and M., his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them: and so for all the rest; is it not written in our archives? As to his magical weapons, all vanished utterly at the moment of that Passing Over. Therefore they carried away our Father’s body piece by piece and that with reverence and in order, so that there was not left of all one hair, nor one nerve, nor one little pore of the skin. Thus was there no funeral pomp; they that say other are liars and blasphemers against a fame untarnished. May the red plague rot their vitals ! Thus, -O my Brethren, thus and not otherwise was the Passing Over of that Great and Wonderful Magician, our Father and Founder. May the dew of his admirable memory moisten the grass of our minds, that we may bring forth tender shoots of energy in the Great Work of Works. So mote it be! BENEDICTVS DOMINVS DEVS NOSTER QVI NOBIS DEDIT SIGNVM R. C.