THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
prophets and the last of them that stifled the Word are
confounded, then will be the reign of the Holy Ghost.
Then, Glory to the Father who drowned the host of
Pharaoh in the Red Sea!
Glory to the Son, who tore the veil of the temple, and
whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke
the forehead of the Czesars against the earth!
Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth
by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners,
to make room for the banquet of the children of God!
Glory to the Holy Ghost, who has promised victory over
earth and over heaven to the angel of liberty!
The angel of liberty was born before the dawn of the first
day, before even the awakening of intelligence, and God
called him the morning star.
O Lucifer! Voluntarily and disdainfully thou didst
detach thyself from the heaven where the sun drowned thee
in his splendour, to plow with thine own rays the unworked
fields of night!
Thou shinest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze
precedes the daybreak!
Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to under-
stand life better!
For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening
star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn.
Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny.
Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right.
Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of
1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English
equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only
used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughout this treatise —TRANs.
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