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- Liber 156
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- 1. This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of
- our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride
- of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast.
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- 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup
- of her fornication.
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- 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep
- not back one drop.
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- 4. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy
- life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and
- the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall
- whiten in the sun.
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- 5. Then shall the winds gather themselves together, and bear thee up as
- it were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they
- shall give it unto the guardians of the abyss.
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- 6. And because there is no life therein, the guardians of the abyss shall
- bid the angels of the winds pass by. And the angels shall lay thy dust in
- the City of the Pyramids, and the name thereof shall be no more.
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- 7. Now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal,
- do thou divest thyself of all thy goods.
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- 8. Thou hast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no
- desire toward it.
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- 9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment
- unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes
- glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for
- the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowle
- dge the accursed one.
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- 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the
- face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly of thy wife, and let
- the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures.
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- 11. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite
- thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Graal in the Chapel
- of Abominations.
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- 12. And behold! if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine,
- then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the
- lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-with-Us.
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- 13. Yea! verily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the Truth.
- Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou
- art no longer thou.
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- 14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile
- thee; thou shalt revel with the wanton in the market-place, and the
- virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees
- and bring thee gold and spices. Also young bo
- ye shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers
- shall sing and dance for thee.
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- 15. Yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost
- in dust.
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- 16. Nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall
- a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible.
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- 17. And this is the wrath of God, that these things should be thus.
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- 18. And this is the grace of God, that these things should be thus.
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- 19. Wherefore I charge you that ye come unto me in the Beginning; for if
- ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end
- thereof.
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- 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that
- ye know not, for ye know not Love.
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- 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast
- whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her
- lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if
- it be known.
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- 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the
- Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning.
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- 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the
- Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning.