THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY
101
Gf
De Femina quadam
(Of a certain Woman)
NOWEST thou for what Cause I am moved to write
this unto hee, my Son only-begotten, Child of
Magick and of Mystery? It is that I thy Father am
also in this Ordeal of Initiation at this Hour. For the Sun is
nigh unto the End of the Sign of he Fishes in the Thirteenth
Year of the Æon, and the New Current of High Magick
leapeth forth as a Flood from the Womb of my True Lady
BABALON. And a Word hath come to me by he Mouth of
the Scarlet Woman, whose Name is
EVE, or
AHITHA,
concerning the Temple of IUPPITER that is builded for me.
And therein is a Woman appointed to a certain Office. Now
this Woman appeared to me in a Vision when I was in the
House of the Juggler by the Lake among the Mountains, the
Sun being in Cancer in the Eleventh Year of the Æon, even
in the Week after thy Birth. And I think this Woman to be
Her whom I call WESRUN. But even while with a pure Heart
I did invoke Her, there came unto me another like unto Her,
so that I am confused in my Mind and bewildered. And this
other Woman stirreth my true Nature in its Depth, so that I
will not call it Love. For the Voice of Love I know of old; but
this other Woman speaketh in a Tongue whereof I have no
Understanding.
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