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- LIBER ISRAFEL
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- SVB FIGVRA
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- LXIV
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- 00. The Temple being in darkness, and the Speaker ascended into
- his place, let him begin by a ritual of the Enterer, as
- followeth.
- 01. Procul, O procul este profani.
- 02. Bahlasti! Ompehda!
- 03. In the name of the Mighty and Terrible One, I proclaim that
- I have banished the Shells unto their habitations.
- 04. I invoke Tahuti, the Lord of Wisdom and of Utterance, the
- God that cometh forth from the veil.
- 05. O Thou! Majesty of Godhead! Wisdom-crowned Tahuti! Lord
- of the Gates of the Universe! Thee, Thee, I invoke.
- O Thou of the Ibis Head! Thee, Thee I invoke.
- Thou who wieldest the Wand of Double Power! Thee, Thee I
- invoke!
- Thou who bearest in Thy left hand the Rose and Cross of
- Light and Life: Thee, Thee, I invoke.
- Thou whose head is as an emerald, and Thy nemmes of the
- night-sky blue! Thee, Thee I invoke.
- Thou, whose skin is of flaming orange as though it burned
- in a furnace! Thee, Thee I invoke.
- 06. Behold! I am Yesterday, To-Day, and Brother of To-morrow!
- I am born again and again.
- Mine is the Unseen Force, whereof the Gods are sprung!
- Which is as Life unto the Dwellers in the Watch-Towers of the
- Universe.
- I am the Charioteer of the East, Lord of the Past and of
- the Future.
- I see by mine own inward light: Lord of Ressurection;
- Who cometh forth from the Dusk, and my birth is from the
- House of Death.
- 07. O ye Divine Hawks upon your Pinnacles!
- Who keep watch over the Universe!
- Ye who company the Bier to the House of Rest!
- Who pilot the Ship of Ra advancing onwards to the heights of
- heaven!
- Lord of the Shrine which standeth in the Centre of the
- Earth!
- 08. Behold, He is in me, and I in Him!
- Mine is the Radiance, wherein Ptah floateth over the
- firmament!
- I travel upon high!
- I tread upon the firmament of Nu!
- I raise a flashing flame, with the lightning of Mine Eye!
- Ever rushing on, in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra:
- giving my life to the Dwellers of Earth!
- 09. If I say "Come up upon the mountains!" the Celestial Waters
- shall flow at my Word.
- For I am Ra incarnate!
- Kephra created in the Flesh!
- I am the Eidolon of my father Tmu, Lord of the City of the
- Sun!
- 10. The God who commands is in my mouth!
- The God of Wisdom is in my Heart!
- My tongue is the Sanctuary of Truth!
- And a God sitteth upon my lips.
- 11. My Word is accomplished everyday!
- And the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of Ptah
- when He createth his works!
- I am Eternal; therefore all things are as my designs;
- therefore do all things obey my Word.
- 12. Therefore do Thou come forth unto me from Thine abode in the
- Silence: Unutterable Wisdom! All-Light! All-Power!
- Thoth! Hermes! Mercury! Odin!
- By whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still nameless to
- Eternity: Come Thou forth, I say, and aid and guard me in this
- work of Art.
- 13. Thou, Star of the East, that didst conduct the Magi!
- Thou art The Same all-present in Heaven and in Hell!
- Thou that vibratest between the Light and the Darkness!
- Rising, descending! Changing ever, yet ever The Same!
- The Sun is Thy Father!
- Thy Mother the Moon!
- The Wind hath borne Thee in its bosom; and Earth hath ever
- nourished the changeless Godhead of Thy Youth!
- 14. Come Thou forth, I say, come Thou forth!
- And make all Spirits subject unto Me:
- So that every Spirit of the Firmament
- And of the Ether,
- Upon the Earth,
- And under the Earth,
- On dry land
- And in the Water,
- Of whirling Air
- And of rushing Fire,
- And every Spell and Scourge of God the Vast One, may be
- obedient unto Me!
- 15. I invoke the Priestess of the Silver Star, Asi the Curved
- One, by the ritual of Silence.
- 16. I make open the gate of Bliss; I descend from the Palace of
- the Stars; I greet you, I embrace you, O children of earth,
- that are gathered together in the Hall of Darkness.
- 17. (A pause)
- 18. The Speech in the Silence.
- The Words against the Son of Night.
- The voice of Tahuti in the Universe in the Presence of the
- Eternal.
- The Formulas of Knowledge.
- The Wisdom of Breath.
- The Root of Vibration.
- The Shaking of the Invisible.
- The Rolling Asunder of the Darkness.
- The Becoming Visible of Matter.
- The Piercing of the Scales of the Crocodile.
- The Breaking Forth of the Light!
- 19. (Follows the Lection)
- 20. There is an end of the speech; let the Silence of darkness
- be broken; let it return into the silence of light.
- 21. The speaker silently departs; the listeners disperse unto
- their homes; yea, they disperse unto their homes.
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