THE EQUINOX
wards: ARARNAY OBOLO MAHARNA TUTULU NOM
LAHARA EN NEDIEZO LO SAD FONUSA SOBANA
ARANA BINUF LA LA LA ARPAZNA UOHULU
when thou wilt call my burden unto appearance, for I who am
the Virgin goddess am the pregnant goddess, and I have cast
down my burden even unto the borders of the universe. They
that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me
even unto the end of time.
Now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands
of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that
nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-
gray plumes. And the noise is confused, thousands of battle-
cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river
in flood. And all the stone is dull, dull gray. The life is gone
from it.
There is no more to see.
Srpi Alissa, ALGERIA.
November 24, 1909, 8-9 p.m.
Tue Cry OF THE 26TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED DES
There is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is
gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the
blackness of a mighty angel. And though he is black (his face
and his wings and his robe and his armour are all black), yet
is he so bright that I cannot look upon him. And he cries:
O ye spears and vials of poison and sharp swords and whirling
thunderbolts that are about the corners of the earth, girded
with wrath and justice, know ye that His name is Righteous-
ness in Beauty? Burnt out are your eyes, for that ye have
seen me in my majesty. And broken are the drum-heads of
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