1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 131
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“And this is the meaning of the Supper of the Passover, the spilling of the blood of the
Lamb being a ritual of the Dark Brothers, for they have sealed up the Pylon with blood, lest
the Angel of Death should enter therein. Thus do they shut themselves off from the company
of the saints. Thus do they keep themselves from compassion and from understanding. Ac‐
cursed are they, for they shut up their blood in their heart.
“They keep themselves from the kisses of my Mother Babylon, and in their lonely for‐
tresses they pray to the false moon. And they bind themselves together with an oath, and with
a great curse. And of their malice they conspire together, and they have power, and mastery,
and in their cauldrons do they brew the harsh wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of
their selfishness.
“Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and
upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their
false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
“Yet of their own poison do they perish, and in their lonely fortresses shall they be
eaten up by Time that hath cheated them to serve him, and by the mighty devil Choronzon,
their master, whose name is the Second Death, for the blood that they have sprinkled on
their Pylon, that is a bar against the Angel Death, is the key by which he entereth in.”
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