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- Liber 27
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- Here is Nothing under its three forms. It is not, yet informeth all things.
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- Now cometh the glory of the Single One, as an imperfection and stain.
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- But by the Weak One the Mother was it equilibrated.
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- Also the purity was divided by Strength, the force of the Demiurge.
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- And the Cross was formulated in the Universe that as yet was not.
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- But now the Imperfection became manifest, presiding over the fading of
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- perfection.
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- Also the Woman arose, and veiled the Upper Heaven with her body of stars.
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- Now then a giant arose, of terrible strength; and asserted the Spirit in a
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- secret rite.
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- And the Master of the Temple balancing all things arose; his stature was
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- above the Heaven and below Earth and Hell.
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- Against him the Brothers of the Left-hand Path, confusing the symbols. They
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- concealed their horror (ss)nin this symbol(ss)m; for in truth they were
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- The master flamed forth as a star and set a guard of Water in every Abyss.
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- Also certain secret ones concealed the Light of Purity in themselves,
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- protecting it from the Persecutions.
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- Likewise also did certain sons and daughters of Hermes and of Aphrodite,
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- more openly
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- But the Enemy confused them. They pretended to conceal that Light, that
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- they might betray it, and profane it.
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- Yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre.
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- Now did the Horror of Time pervert all things, hiding the Purity with a
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- loathsome thing, a thing unnameable.
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- Yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a foul stain of
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- storm upon the sky.
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- And the Black Brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves
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- without shame or fear.
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- Also there rose up a soul of filth and of weakness, and it corrupted all
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- the rule of the Tao.
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- Then only was Heaven established to bear sway; for only in the lowest
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- corruption is form manifest.
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- Also did Heaven manifest in violent light,
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- And in soft light.
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- Then were the waters gathered together from the heaven,
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- And a crust of earth concealed the core of flame.
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- Around the globe gathered the wide air,
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- And men began to light fires upon the earth.
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- Therefore was the end of it sorrow; yet in that sorrow a sixfold star of
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- glory whereby they might see to return unto the stainless Abode; yea, unto
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- the Stainless Abode.
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