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8. He hath established the Eight Belts, wherewith he hath girdled the globes. 9. He hath established the Trinityof Triads in all things, forcing fire into fire, and ordering all things in the Stable Abode of the Kings of Aegypt. IO. He hath established His rule in His kingdom. 11. Yet the Father also boweth unto the Power of the Star 418 and thereby 12. In his subtlety He expandeth it all into twelve rays of the Crown. 13. And these twelve rays are One. 62
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…dored His adorable splendour. 9. I rested myself, admiring the Stability of Him, how the shaking of His Universe, the dissolution of all things, should move Him not. 10. Yea, verily, I the Lord Viceregent of His Kingdom, I, Adonai, Who speak unto my servant V. V. V. V. V. did rule and govern in His place. 11. Yet also did I formulate the word of double power in the Voice of the Master, even the word 418. 12. And all these things deceived me not, for I expanded them by my subtlety into the Twelve Rays of the Crown. 13. And these twelve rays were…
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VI :1 ο. Deeper and deeper into the mire of things ! Farther and farther into the never-ending Expansion of the Abyss. I. The great goddess that bendeth over the Universe is my mistress; I am the winged globe at her heart. 2. I contract ever as she ever expandeth; 3. At the end it is all one. 4. Our loves have brought to birththe Father and Creator of all things. 5. He hath established the elements; the aether, the air, the water, the earth, and the fire. 6. He hath established the wandering stars in their courses. 7. He hath ploughed With the s…
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… in these. ᾽ 8. Ι saw the lying spirits like frogs upon the earth, and upon the water, and upon the treacherous metal that corrodeth all things and abideth not. I saw Thee in these. 9. I saw the obscene ones, bull-men linked in the abyss of putrefaction, that gnawed each other’s tongues for pain. I saw Thee in these. 10. I saw the Woman. Ο my God, I beheld the image thereof, even as a lovely shape that concealeth a black monkey, even as a figure that draweth with her hands small images of men down into hell. I saw her from the head to the navel …
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…F THE TRIGRAMS OF THE MUTATIONS OF THE TAO WITH THE YIN AND THE YANG Here is Nothing under its three forms. It is not, yet informeth all things. Now cometh the glory 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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…tars. 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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Yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. Now did the Horror of Time pervert all things, hiding the Purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. Yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firma- ment, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. And the Black Brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. Also there rose up a soul of filth and of weak- ness, and it corrupted all the rule of the Tao. 44
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… Only they who know IT may be known. II. For they have the genius of the mighty sword 418. 12. And they are not deceived by any of these things; for by their subtlety do they expand them all into the Twelve Rays of the Crown. 13. And these twelve rays are One.
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…d 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, beautiful to behold. 7. And having thus conquered them, there 57
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…I. And All and One and Naught were slain in the slaying of the Warrior 418, 12. In the slaying of the subtlety that ex- panded all these things into the Twelve Rays of the Crown, I3. That returned unto One, and beyond One, even unto the vision of the Fool in his folly that chanted the word Ararita,and beyond the Word and the Fool; yea, beyond the Word and the Fool.
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II ?ך o. Now then I saw these things averse and evil; and they were not, even as Thou art Not. I. I saw the twin heads that ever battle against one another, so that all their thought is a confusion. I saw Thee in these. 2. I saw the darkeners of wisdom, like black apes chattering vile nonsense. I saw Thee in these. 3. I saw the devouring mothers of Hell, that eat up their children—O ye that are without understanding! I saw Thee in these. 4. I saw the merciless and the unmajestic like harpies tearing their foul food. I saw Thee in these. 5. I sa…
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…ther use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. 26. These slay, naming your enemies; and they shall fall before you. 27. Also these shall breed lust and power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 28. Also ye shall be strong in war. 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold! 27
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…d, but the blue and gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou pre- sently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but Whoso gives one particle of II
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…They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about …