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- u80ici1.11hLiber 813
-
- I
-
- 0. O my God! One is Thy Beginning! One is Thy Spirit, and Thy Permutation
- One!
-
- 1. Let me extol Thy perfections before men.
-
- 2. In the Image of a Sixfold Star that flameth across the Vault inane, let
- me re-veil Thy perfections.
-
- 3. Thou hast appeared unto me as an agèd God, a venerable God, the Lord of
- Time, bearing a sharp sickle.
-
- 4. Thou hast appeared unto me as a jocund and ruddy God, full of Majesty, a
- King, a Father in his prime. Thou didst bear the sceptre of the Universe,
- crowned with the Wheel of the Spirit.
-
- 5. Thou hast appeared unto me with sword and spear, a warrior God in
- flaming armour among Thine horsemen.
-
- 6. Thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant God, a god of music
- and beauty, even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre.
-
- 7. Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into
- limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of
- extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold.
-
- 8. Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy
- winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff.
-
- 9. Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess
- virginal chaste, as a moon among the faded oaks of the wood of years.
-
- 10. But I was deceived by none of these. All these I cast aside, crying:
- Begone! So that all these faded from my vision.
-
- 11. Also I welded together the Flaming Star and the Sixfold Star in the forge
- of my soul, and behold! a new star 418 that is above all these.
-
- 12. Yet even so was I not deceived; for the crown hath twelve rays.
-
- 13. And these twelve rays are one.
-
- II
-
- 0. Now then I saw these things averse and evil; and they were not, even as
- Thou art Not.
-
- 1. I saw the twin heads that ever battle against one another, so that all
- their thought is a confusion. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 2. I saw the darkeners of wisdom, like black apes chattering vile nonsense.
- I saw Thee in these.
-
- 3. I saw the devouring mothers of Hell, that eat up their children O ye
- that are without understanding! I saw Thee in these.
- 4. I saw the merciless and the unmajestic like harpies tearing their foul
- food. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 5. I saw the burning ones, giants like volcanoes belching out the black
- vomit of fire and smoke in their fury. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 6. I saw the petty, the quarrelsome, the selfish, they were like men, O
- Lord, they were even like unto men. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 7. I saw the ravens of death, that flew with hoarse cries upon the carrion
- earth. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 8. I saw the lying spirits like frogs upon the earth, and upon the water,
- and upon the treacherous metal that corrodeth all things and abideth not. I
- saw Thee in these.
-
- 9. I saw the obscene ones, bull-men linked in the abyss of putrefaction,
- that gnawed each other's tongues for pain. I saw Thee in these.
-
- 10. I saw the Woman. O my God, I beheld the image thereof, even as a lovely
- shape that concealeth a black monkey, even as a figure that draweth with her
- hands small images of men down into hell. I saw her from the head to the
- navel a woman, from the navel to the feet of her a man. I saw Thee even in
- her.
-
- 11. For mine was the keyword to the Closed Palace 418 and mine the reins of
- the Chariot of the Sphinxes, black and white.
-
- But I was not deceived by anything of all these things.
-
- 12. For I expanded it by my subtlety into Twelve Rays of the Crown.
-
- 13. And these twelve rays were One.
-
- III
-
- 0. Say thou that He God is one; God is the Everlasting One; nor hath He any
- Equal, or any Son, or any Companion. Nothing shall stand before His face.
-
- 1. Even for five hundred and eleven times nightly for one and forty days
- did I cry aloud unto the Lord the affirmation of His Unity.
-
- 2. Also did I glorify His wisdom, whereby He made the worlds.
-
- 3. Yea, I praised Him for His intelligible essence, whereby the universe
- became light.
-
- 4. I did thank Him for His manifold mercy; I did worship His magnificence
- and majesty.
-
- 5. I trembled before His might.
-
- 6. I delighted in the Harmony and Beauty of His Essence.
-
- 7. In His Victory I pursued His enemies; yea I drave them down the steep; I
- thundered after them into the utmost abyss; yea, therein I partook of the
- glory of my Lord.
- 8. His Splendour shone upon me; I adored His adorable splendour.
-
- 9. I rested myself, admiring the Stability of Him, how the shaking of His
- Universe, the dissolution of all things, should move Him not.
-
- 10. Yea, verily, I the Lord Viceregent of His Kingdom, I, Adonai, who speak
- unto my servant V.V.V.V.V. did rule and govern in His place.
-
- 11. Yet also did I formulate the word of double power in the Voice of the
- Master, even the word 418.
-
- 12. And all these things deceived me not, for I expanded them by my subtlety
- into the Twelve Rays of the Crown.
-
- 13. And these twelve rays were One.
-