and that strangely. Let him not seek after this;
for thereby alone can he fall from it.
48. Now this mystery of the letters is done,
and I want to go on to the holier place.
49. I am a secret fourfold word, the blas-
phemy against all gods of men.
50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!
51. With my Hawk’s head I peek at the
eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.
52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed
and blind him.
53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the
Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din.
54. Bahlasti!
Ompehda! I spit on your
crapulous creeds.
55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon Wheels:
for her sake let all chaste women be utterly
despised among you!
56. Also for beauty’s sake and love’s!
57. Despise also all cowards;
professional
soldiers who dare not fight, but play: all fools
despise!
58. But the keen and the proud, the royal
and the lofty; ye are brothers!
59. As brothers fight ye!
60. Thereisnolaw beyond Do what thou wilt.
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