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- u80ici1.11h38. I, Apep the Serpent, am the heart of IAO. Isis shall await
- Asar, and I in the midst.
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- 39. Also the Priestess shall seek another altar, and perform my ceremonies
- thereon.
-
- 40. There shall be no hymn nor dithyramb in my praise and the praise of the
- rite, seeing that it is utterly beyond.
-
- 41. Thou shalt assure thyself of the stability of the altar.
-
- 42. In this rite thou shalt be alone.
-
- 43. I will give thee another ceremony whereby many shall rejoice.
-
- 44. Before all let the Oath be taken firmly as thou raisest up the altar from
- the black earth.
-
- 45. In the words that Thou knowest.
-
- 46. For I also swear unto thee by my body and soul that shall never be parted
- in sunder that I dwell within thee coiled and ready to spring.
-
- 47. I will give thee the kingdoms of the earth, O thou Who hast mastered the
- kingdoms of the East and of the West.
-
- 48. I am Apep, O thou slain One. Thou shalt slay thyself upon mine altar: I
- will have thy blood to drink.
-
- 49. For I am a mighty vampire, and my children shall suck up the wine of the
- earth which is blood.
-
- 50. Thou shalt replenish thy veins from the chalice of heaven.
-
- 51. Thou shalt be secret, a fear to the world.
-
- 52. Thou shalt be exalted, and none shall see thee; exalted, and none shall
- suspect thee.
-
- 53. For there are two glories diverse, and thou who hast won the first shalt
- enjoy the second.
-
- 54. I leap with joy within thee; my head is arisen to strike.
-
- 55. O the lust, the sheer rapture, of the life of the snake in the spine!
-
- 56. Mightier than God or man, I am in them, and pervade them.
-
- 57. Follow out these my words.
-
- 58. Fear nothing.
-
- Fear nothing.
-
- Fear nothing.
-
- 59. For I am nothing, and me thou shalt fear, O my virgin, my prophet within
- whose bowels I rejoice.
- 60. Thou shalt fear with the fear of love: I will overcome thee.
-
- 61. Thou shalt be very nigh to death.
-
- 62. But I will overcome thee; the New Life shall illumine thee with the Light
- that is beyond the Stars.
-
- 63. Thinkest thou? I, the force that have created all, am not to be
- despised.
-
- 64. And I will slay thee in my lust.
-
- 65. Thou shalt scream with the joy and the pain and the fear and the love so
- that the of a new God leaps out among the Stars.
-
- 66. There shall be no sound heard but this thy lion-roar of rapture; yea,
- this thy lion-roar of rapture.
-