The Sword of Song

AMBROSII MAGI HORTIS ROSARUM 89 without show of learning, without needless darkening of counsel and w ord, dost thou ever reveal the sacred Heights of our My stic Mountain. For, as for him that understandeth not thy writing, and that easily and well, be ye well assured all that he is a vile m an and a losel of little worth or worship ; a dog, an unclean swine, a worm of filfth, a festering sore in the vitals of earth: such an one is liar and murderer, debauched, drunken, sexless and spatulate ; an ape-droppi ng, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep y e well away ! Use hath he little : ornam ent maketh he nothing : let him be cast out on the dunghills bey ond Jordan; let him pass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from his heart cam e a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not , but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body ; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. But our elde st brother V. N. bade all be still ; and thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our Father. To the Angel Agbagal, the fore part of the skull ; To the demon Ozoz, the back left part of the skull ; To the demon Olcot,1 the back right part of the skull ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of fire, each one hair ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of water, each one hair; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of earth, each one hair ; To ten thousand myriads of spirits of air, each one hair ; To the archangel Zazelazel, the brain ; To the angel Usbusolat, the medulla ; To the demon Ululomis, the right nostril ; To the angel Opael, the left nostril ; To the spirit Kuiphiah, the membrane of the nose ; To the spirit Pugrah, the bridge of the nose ; To eleven thousand spirits of spirit, the hairs of the nose, one each ; To the archangel Tuphtuphtuphal, the right eye ; To the archdevil Upsusph, the left eye ; The parts thereof in trust to be di vided among their servitors ; as the right cornea, to Aphlek ; the left, to Urnbal ;—mighty spirits are they, and bold ! To the archdevil Rama,3 the right ear and its parts ; To the archangel Umumatis, the left ear and its parts ; The teeth to two-and-thirty letters of the sixfold Nam e: one to the air, and fifteen to the rain and the ram , and ten to the virgin, and six to the Bull; The mouth to the archangels Alalal and Bikarak, lip and lip; The tongue to that devil of all devils Yehowou. 4 Ho, devil! canst thou speak? 1 Col. Olcott, the theosophist. 2 ? the spirt of motor-cars. 3 Vishnu, the preserver. 4 Jehova. Sedes Profunda Paimonis. Oculi Nox Secreta. Portae Silen- tium Partitio.