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- Liber 66
-
- 1. Apep deifieth Asar.
-
- 2. Let excellent virgins evoke rejoicing, son of Night!
-
- 3. This is the book of the most secret cult of the Ruby Star. It shall be
- given to none, save to the shameless in deed as in word.
-
- 4. No man shall understand this writing -- it is too subtle for the sons of
- men.
-
- 5. If the Ruby Star have shed its blood upon thee; if in the season of the
- moon thou hast invoked by the Iod and the Pe, then mayest thou partake of this
- most secret sacrament.
-
- 6. One shall instruct another, with no care for the matters of men's thought.
-
- 7. There shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone.
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- 8. At the head of the altar gold, and twin images in green of the Master.
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- 9. In the midst a cup of green wine.
-
- 10. At the foot the Star of Ruby.
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- 11. The altar shall be entirely bare.
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- 12. First, the ritual of the Flaming Star.
-
- 13. Next, the ritual of the Seal.
-
- 14. Next, the infernal adorations of OAI.
-
- Mu pa telai,
- Tu wa melai
- a, a, a.
- Tu fu tulu!
- Tu fu tulu
- Pa, Sa, Ga.
-
- Qwi Mu telai
- Ya Pu melai;
- u, u, u.
- 'Se gu malai;
- Pe fu telai,
- Fu tu lu.
-
- O chi balae
- Wa pa malae: --
- Ut! Ut! Ut!
- Ge; fu latrai,
- Le fu malai
- Kut! Hut! Nut!
-
- Al OAI
- Rel moai
- Ti -- Ti -- Ti!
- Wa la pelai
- Tu fu latai
- Wi, Ni, Bi.
-
- 15. Also thou shalt excite the wheels with the five wounds and the five
- wounds.
-
- 16. Then thou shalt excite the wheels with the two and the third in the midst;
- even [saturn symbol] and [jupiter symbol], [sun symbol] and [moon symbol],
- [mars symbol] and [venus symbol], and [mercury symbol].
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- 17. Then the five -- and the sixth.
-
- 18. Also the altar shall fume before the master with incense that hath no
- smoke.
-
- 19. That which is to be denied shall be denied; that which is to be trampled
- shall be trampled; that which is to be spat upon shall be spat upon.
-
- 20. These things shall be burnt in the outer fire.
-
- 21. Then again the master shall speak as he will soft words, and with music
- and what else he will bring forward the Victim.
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- 22. Also he shall slay a young child upon the altar, and the blood shall cover
- the altar with perfume as of roses.
-
- 23. Then shall the master appear as He should appear -- in His glory.
-
- 24. He shall stretch himself upon the altar, and awake it into life, and into
- death.
-
- 25. (For so we conceal that life which is beyond.)
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- 26. The temple shall be darkened, save for the fire and the lamp of the altar.
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- 27. There shall he kindle a great fire and a devouring.
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- 28. Also he shall smite the altar with his scourge, and blood shall flow
- therefrom.
-
- 29. Also he shall have made roses bloom thereon.
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- 30. In the end he shall offer up the Vast Sacrifice, at the moment when the
- God licks up the flame upon the altar.
-
- 31. All these things shalt thou perform strictly, observing the time.
-
- 32. And the Beloved shall abide with Thee.
-
- 33. Thou shalt not disclose the interior world of this rite unto any one:
- therefore have I written it in symbols that cannot be understood.
-
- 34. I who reveal the ritual am IAO and OAI; the Right and the Averse.
-
- 35. These are alike unto me.
-
- 36. Now the Veil of this operation is called Shame, and the Glory abideth
- within.
-
- 37. Thou shalt comfort the heart of the secret stone with the warm blood. Thou
- shalt make a subtle decoction of delight, and the Watchers shall drink
- thereof.
-
- 38. I, Apep the Serpent, am the heart of IAO. Isis shall await Asar, and I in
- the midst.
-
- 39. Also the Priestess shall seek another altar, and perform my ceremonies
- thereon.
-
- 40. There shall be no hymn nor dithyramb in my praise and the praise of the
- rite, seeing that it is utterly beyond.
-
- 41. Thou shalt assure thyself of the stability of the altar.
-
- 42. In this rite thou shalt be alone.
-
- 43. I will give thee another ceremony whereby many shall rejoice.
-
- 44. Before all let the Oath be taken firmly as thou raisest up the altar from
- the black earth.
-
- 45. In the words that Thou knowest.
-
- 46. For I also swear unto thee by my body and soul that shall never be parted
- in sunder that I dwell within thee coiled and ready to spring.
-
- 47. I will give thee the kingdoms of the earth, O thou Who hast mastered the
- kingdoms of the East and of the West.
-
- 48. I am Apep, O thou slain One. Thou shalt slay thyself upon mine altar: I
- will have thy blood to drink.
-
- 49. For I am a mighty vampire, and my children shall suck up the wine of the
- earth which is blood.
-
- 50. Thou shalt replenish thy veins from the chalice of heaven.
-
- 51. Thou shalt be secret, a fear to the world.
-
- 52. Thou shalt be exalted, and none shall see thee; exalted, and none shall
- suspect thee.
-
- 53. For there are two glories diverse, and thou who hast won the first shalt
- enjoy the second.
-
- 54. I leap with joy within thee; my head is arisen to strike.
-
- 55. O the lust, the sheer rapture, of the life of the snake in the spine!
-
- 56. Mightier than God or man, I am in them, and pervade them.
-
- 57. Follow out these my words.
-
- 58. Fear nothing.
- Fear nothing.
- Fear nothing.
-
- 59. For I am nothing, and me thou shalt fear, O my virgin, my prophet within
- whose bowels I rejoice.
-
- 60. Thou shalt fear with the fear of love: I will overcome thee.
-
- 61. Thou shalt be very nigh to death.
-
- 62. But I will overcome thee; the New Life shall illumine thee with the Light
- that is beyond the Stars.
-
- 63. Thinkest thou? I, the force that have created all, am not to be despised.
-
- 64. And I will slay thee in my lust.
-
- 65. Thou shalt scream with the joy and the pain and the fear and the love --
- so that the [grk. LOGOS] of a new God leaps out among the Stars.
-
- 66. There shall be no sound heard but this thy lion-roar of rapture; yea, this
- thy lion-roar of rapture.
-