THE LEFT-HAND PATH 
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These are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of 
Love. (Ibid., 7th Aethyr) 
Moreover, this also: 
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. 
Accursed 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 fortresses 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.2 (Ibid ., 
12th Aethyr) 
Finally : 
Yet must he that understandeth 
go forth into the 
2. (I think the trouble with these people was, that they wanted to substitute the 
blood of someone else for their own blood, because they wanted to keep their 
personalities .. )