LIBER A’ASH
19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in
mine honour.
20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my
sacraments
21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the
duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the
child.
22. All corpses are sacred unto me;
they shall not be
touched save in mine eucharist.
All lonely places are sacred
unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my
name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him.
23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier
than I.
24. Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apollo; my gifts
exceed the olive and the horse.
25. Who worshippeth me must worship me with many
rites.
26. I am concealed with all concealments; when the Most
Holy Ancient One is stripped and driven through the market-
place I am still secret and apart.
27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods.
28. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me.
29. For there is no holiness where I am not.
30. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine
acorns are blown afar by the wind ; and verily I shall rise again,
and my children about me, so that we shall uplift our forest
in Eternity.
3L Eternity is the storm that covereth me.
32. I am Existence, the Existence that existeth not save
through its own Existence, that is beyond the Existence of
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