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- Liber 370
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- 0. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above
- thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk.
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- 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub.
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- 2. Up! The ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm.
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- 3. There is a flaming gash in the sky.
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- 4. Up.
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- 5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an aeon and an
- aeon and an aeon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not.
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- 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God
- F. I. A. T. is enthroned on the day of Be-with-Us.
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- 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris
- are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from
- the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. Set
- is his holy covenant, that he shall disp
- lay in the great day of M. A. A. T., that is being interpreted the Master
- of the Temple of A.'. A.'., whose name is Truth.
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- 8. Now in this is the magical power known.
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- 9. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm.
- It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain.
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- 10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash.
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- 11. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also!
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- 12. Let the magus act thus in his conjuration.
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- 13. Let him sit and conjure; let him draw himself together in that
- forcefulness; let him rise next swollen and straining; let him dash back
- the hood from his head and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil of the
- demon. Then let him sway the force of him to and fro like a satyr in
- silence, until the Word burst from his throat.
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- 14. Then let him not fall exhausted, although the might have been ten
- thousandfold the human; but that which floodeth him is the infinite mercy
- of the Genitor-Genetrix of the Universe, whereof he is the Vessel.
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- 15. Nor do thou deceive thyself. It is easy to tell the live force from
- the dead matter. It is no easier to tell the live snake from the dead snake.
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- 16. Also concerning vows. Be obstinate, and be not obstinate. Understand
- that the yielding of the Yoni is one with the lengthening of the Lingam.
- Thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount
- Meru.
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- 17. Now shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of the
- Spirit, the Lord of Creation. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver
- Star that ye adore.
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- 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated
- with the Three.
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- 19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour.
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- 20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments.
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- 21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass,
- and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child.
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- 22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine
- eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth
- himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him.
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- 23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier than I.
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- 24. Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and
- the horse.
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- 25. Who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites.
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- 26. I am concealed with all concealments; when the Most Holy Ancient One
- is stripped and driven through the marketplace I am still secret and apart.
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- 27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods.
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- 28. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me.
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- 29. For there is no holiness where I am not.
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- 30. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine acorns are
- blown afar by the wind; and verily I shall rise again, and my children
- about me, so that we shall uplift our forest in Eternity.
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- 31. Eternity is the storm that covereth me.
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- 32. I am Existence, the Existence that existeth not save through its own
- Existence, that is beyond the Existence of Existences, and rooted deeper
- than the No-Thing-Tree in the Land of No-Thing.
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- 33. Now therefore thou knowest when I am within thee, when my hood is
- spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and
- resistless as the Giant Glacier.
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- 34. For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy nakedness in the bazaar,
- sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in
- part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a
- Yantra or a Deva.
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- 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, and the next link
- of the Infinite Chain.
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- 36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles -- is
- not my symbol a triangle? -- ever in circles -- is not the symbol of the
- Beloved a circle? Therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle
- is alike and every triangle alike!
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- 37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant,
- dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the
- Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen!
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- 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I
- am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars
- that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am
- slain, in the death that is life, in the
- peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand
- as a harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils.
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- 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the End is delight, and
- delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the
- glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and
- through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at
- the mouth thereof when it leaps forth into
- the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty sea.
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