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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, 
yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of 
death. 
I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the 
wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a 
foolish word: for it is I that go. 
Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; 
ill, for I am the worshipper. 
(6-8) 
For I am perfect, being Not ; and my number is nine by 
the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in 
eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The 
Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a 
further secret. 
I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as 
my bride is eleven. 
( 15-16) 
I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and 
bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with 
drunkenness. 
(22) 
I am alone: there is no God where I am. 
(23) 
I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my 
coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit 
are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth 
venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth 
are one. 
There is great danger in me; for who doth not 
understand these runes shall make a great miss. He 
shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he 
shall perish with the dogs of Reason. 
(26-27) 
Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 
Where I am these are not.