1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 137
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Archangels with joined hands, that stand and sing: This is the daughter of BABALON
the Beautiful, that she hath borne unto the Father of All. And unto all hath she borne her.
“This is the Daughter of the King. This is the Virgin of Eternity. This is she that the Holy
One hath wrested from the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome Space. This
is she that is set upon the Throne of Understanding. Holy, Holy, Holy is her name, not to be
spoken among men. For Koré they have called her, and Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone.
“And the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vain things,
and the young men have dreamed vain dreams: but this is she, that immaculate, the name of
whose name may not be spoken. Thought cannot pierce the glory that defendeth her, for
thought is smitten dead before her presence. Memory is blank, and in the most ancient books
of Magick are neither words to conjure her, nor adorations to praise her. Will bends like a reed
in the tempests that sweep the borders of her kingdom, and imagination cannot figure so
much as one petal of the lilies whereon she standeth in the lake of crystal, in the sea of glass.
“This is she that hath bedecked her hair with seven stars, the seven breaths of God that
move and thrill its excellence. And she hath tired her hair with seven combs, whereupon are
written the seven secret names of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Arch‐
angels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord.
“Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are
but the pulsings of thy blood.”
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