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- u80ici1.11hLiber 370
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- 0. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above
- thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk.
-
- 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub.
-
- 2. Up! The ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm.
-
- 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.
-
- 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God
- F.12I.12A.12T. is enthroned on the day of Be-with-Us.
-
- 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 display in the great day of M.12A.12A.12T., that is
- being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A... A..., whose name is Truth.
-
- 8. Now in this is the magical power known.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 31. Eternity is the storm that covereth me.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, and the next link of the
- Infinite Chain.
-
- 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!
- 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!
-
- 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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