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The Law is for All
38. Thou hast brought me into great delight. 
Thou hast given me of Thy flesh to eat and of 
Thy blood for an offering of intoxication.
39. Thou hast fastened the fangs of Eternity in 
my soul, and the Poison of the Infinite hath 
consumed me utterly.
40. I am become like a luscious devil of Italy; a 
fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten 
out with hunger for kisses. She hath played 
the harlot in divers palaces; she hath given 
her body to the beasts.
41. She hath slain her kinsfolk with strong 
venom of toads; she hath been scourged with 
many rods.
42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the 
Wheel; the hands of the hangman have 
bound her unto it.
43. The fountains of water have been loosed 
upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding 
torment.
44. She hath burst in sunder with the weight of 
the waters; she hath sunk into the awful Sea.
45. So am I, O Adonai, my lord, and such are the 
waters of Thine intolerable Essence.
46. So am I, O Adonai, my beloved, and Thou 
hast burst me utterly in sunder.
47. I am shed out like spilt blood upon the 
mountains; the Ravens of Dispersion have 
borne me utterly away.
48. Therefore is the seal unloosed, that guarded 
the Eighth abyss; therefore is the vast sea as a 
veil; therefore is there a rending asunder of 
all things.1
1 “Liber LXV,” 111:38-48.
2 “Liber LXV,” 1:64.
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64. Intoxicate the inmost, O my lover, not the 
outermost!1 2
68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so 
deep—die!