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- Liber 90
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- 0. In the name of the Lord of Initiation, Amen.
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- 1. I fly and I alight as an hawk: of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-
- sweeping wings.
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- 2. I swoop down upon the black earth; and it gladdens into green at my coming.
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- 3. Children of Earth! rejoice! rejoice exceedingly; for your salvation is
- at hand.
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- 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterable
- joy.
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- 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast
- before you in the house of happiness.
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- 6. I am not come to rebuke you, or to enslave you.
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- 7. I bid you not turn from your voluptuous ways, from your idleness, from
- your follies.
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- 8. But I bring you joy to your pleasure, peace to your languor, wisdom to
- your folly.
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- 9. All that ye do is right, if so be that ye enjoy it.
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- 10. I am come against sorrow, against weariness, against them that seek to
- enslave you.
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- 11. I pour you lustral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset
- and the dawn.
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- 12. Come with me, and I will give you all that is desirable upon the earth.
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- 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows.
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- 14. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end.
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- 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: I am a black and terrible God.
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- 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down
- your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword.
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- 17. But the first kiss of love shall be radiant on your lips; and all my
- darkness and terror shall turn to light and joy.
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- 18. Only those who fear shall fail. Those who have bent their backs to the
- yoke of slavery until they can no longer stand upright; them will I despise.
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- 19. But you who have defied the law; you who have conquered by subtlety or
- force; you will I take unto me, even I will take you unto me.
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- 20. I ask you to sacrifice nothing at mine altar; I am the God who giveth all.
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- 21. Light, Life, Love; Force, Fantasy, Fire; these do I bring you: mine
- hands are full of these.
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- 22. There is joy in the setting-out; there is joy in the journey; there is
- joy in the goal.
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- 23. Only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or discomforted; then ye
- may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith I guide
- you to the heart of the groves of Eleusis.
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- 24. My disciples are proud and beautiful; they are strong and swift; they
- rule their way like mighty conquerors.
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- 25. The weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful
- -- these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them.
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- 26. This also is compassion: an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-
- out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers.
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- 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers: ye must not
- fade in your season.
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- 28. I love you; I would sprinkle you with the divine dew of immortality.
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- 29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave: I offer you the
- certain consciousness of bliss.
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- 30. I offer it at once, on earth; before an hour hath struck upon the
- bell, ye shall be with Me in the Abodes that are beyond Decay.
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- 31. Also I give you power earthly and joy earthly; wealth, and health,
- and length of days. Adoration and love shall cling to your feet, and twine
- around your heart.
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- 32. Only your mouths shall drink of a delicious wine -- the wine of Iacchus;
- they shall reach ever to the heavenly kiss of the Beautiful God.
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- 33. I reveal unto you a great mystery. Ye stand between the abyss of height
- and the abyss of depth.
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- 34. In either awaits you a Companion; and that Companion is Yourself.
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- 35. Ye can have no other Companion.
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- 36. Many have arisen, being wise. They have said ``Seek out the glittering
- Image in the place ever golden, and unite yourselves with It.''
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- 37. Many have arisen, being foolish. They have said, ``Stoop down unto the
- darkly splendid world, and be wedded to that Blind Creature of the Slime.''
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- 38. I who am beyond Wisdom and Folly, arise and say unto you: achieve both
- weddings! Unite yourselves with both!
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- 39. Beware, beware, I say, lest ye seek after the one and lose the other!
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- 40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below
- the hells.
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- 41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon,
- let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the
- higher.
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- 42. Thus shall equilibrium become perfect. I will aid my disciples; as fast
- as they acquire this balanced power and joy so faster will I push them.
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- 43. They shall in their turn speak from this Invisible Throne; their words
- shall illumine the worlds.
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- 44. They shall be masters of majesty and might; they shall be beautiful and
- joyous; they shall be clothed with victory and splendour; they shall stand
- upon the firm foundation; the kingdom shall be theirs; yea, the kingdom
- shall be theirs.
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- In the name of the Lord of Initiation. Amen.
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