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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Holy Books

…19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, Ο king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. No…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 40

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…of the Single One, as an imperfection and stain. .. But by the Weak One the Mother was it equili- brated. Also the purity was divided by Strength, the force of the Demiurge. 41

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1909 · PDF PAGE 41

The Holy Books

… the fading of perfection. Also the Woman arose, and veiled the Upper Heaven with her body of stars. Now then a giant arose, of terrible strength; and asserted the Spirit in a secret rite. And the Master of the Temple balancing all things arose; his stature was above the Heaven and below Earth and Hell. 42

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1909 · PDF PAGE 55

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… and said: 1. Glory to God, and Thanksgiving to God! There is One God alone, and God is exceeding great. He is about us, and there is no strength save in Him the exalted, the great. 2. Thus did V. V. V. V. V. become mad, and wend about naked. 3. And all these things fled away, for he understood them all, that they were but as old rags upon the Divine Perfection. 4. Also he pitied them all, that they were but reflections distorted. 5. Also he smote them, lest they should bear rule over the just. 6. Also he harmonized them into one picture, beautif…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 23

The Holy Books

…l. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, Ο man, unto thee. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long and desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers and the words: 76.4638ABK24ALGMOR3 YX24 89RP S TOVAL. What meaneth this, Ο prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow 22

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1909 · PDF PAGE 35

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…t shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 69. There is success. 70. I am the Hawk-HeadedLord of Silence and of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night- blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world ! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia— but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe ; and nought remains. 34

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1909 · PDF PAGE 50

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6. Thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant God, a god of music and beauty, - even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre. 7. Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold. 8. Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff. 9. Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 27

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…r of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am strength, force, vigour of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not ; be upon them ! 19. That stéle’ they shall call the Abomina- tion of Desolation; count well its name, and it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not un…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

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…joy: I will be at your arms in battle and ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; cour- age is your ardour; go on, go on, in my strength; and ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the key of it all. Then this line drawn is a…

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