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any miracle, him shall ye know for a liar and a pretender to the
sacred Wisdom.
For this cause am I wrapped ever in a shroud of white starred
with the three active colours; these things conceal Me, so that he
who knoweth Me hath passed beyond them.
Then did the god call us each separately to him, and in each
ear did he whisper a secret formula and a word of power,
pertaining to the grade to which I had appointed him.
But to me he gave the supreme formula and the supreme word,
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the word that hath eight-and-seventy letters, the formula that hath
five-and-sixty limbs.
So then I devoted myself there and then to a completer
understanding of Osiris my God, so that I might discover his
function in the whole course of the Cosmos.
For he that is born in the years of the power of a God thinketh
that God to be eternal, one, alone. But he that is born in the hour
of the weakness of the God, at the death of one and the birth of the
other, seeth something (though it be little) of the course of things.
And for him it is necessary to understand fully that change of
office (for the gods neither die nor are re-born, but now one
initiates and the other guards, and now one heralds and the other
sanctifies) its purpose and meaning in the whole scheme of things.
So I, in this year V of the Equinox of the Gods (1908) wherein
Horus took the place of Osiris, will by the light of this my magical
memory seek to understand fully the formula of Horus Ra Hoor
Khuit my god, that ruleth the world under Nuit and Hadit. Then
as Ankh-f-na-khonsu left unto me the stelé 666 with the keys to
that knowledge, so also may I write down in hieroglyph the
formula of the Lady of the Forked Wand and of the Feather, that
shall assume his throne and place when the strength of Horus is
exhausted.
So now the service of the Gods was to be secret and their magic
concealed from men. They were to fall before the eyes of men
from their place, and little sewer-rats were to come and mock at
them, no man avenging them, and they utterly careless, not striking
for themselves. Yet was there knowledge of them which an initiate
might gain, though so much more difficult, immeasurably higher
and more intimate.
My life from this moment became highly concentrated upon
itself. I had no time either for ascetic practices or for any
pleasures; nor would I take any active part in the service of the
temple which, purified and regenerated, had become both subtly
perfect and perfectly subtle.
It was not all of the people who did at all comprehend the
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change that had occurred; but the others obeyed and made believe
to understand, lest their fellows should despise them. So it
happened that the more ignorant and stupid any person was the
more he feigned understanding; so that the least devout appeared
the most devout as it is unto this day.
But for me all these things were as nothing; for I studied ever
the nature of Osiris, concentrating myself into mysterious pure
symbols. I understood why it was said that Isis had failed to
discover the Phallus of Osiris, and thus perceived the necessity of
Horus to follow him in the great succession of the Equinoxes.
Moreover I fashioned talismans of pure light concerning Osiris,
and I performed in light all the ceremonies of initiation into his
mysteries.
These were interpreted by wise men and translated into the
language of the twilight and graven on stone and in the memories
of men.
Yet was I even more intrigued in that great struggle to
apprehend the course of things, as it is seen from the stand-point
of Destiny. So that I might leave true and intelligible images to
enlighten the mind of him (whether myself or another) that should
come after me to celebrate the Equinox of the Gods at the end of
the period of Osiris.
As now hath come to pass.
Thus then three-and-thirty years I lived in the temple of Osiris
a High Priest; and I subdued all men under me. Also I abolished
the office of priestess, for had not Isis failed to find that venerable
Phallus without which Osiris must be so melancholy a god? [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
