LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI
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Verba Magistri sui de Femina
(His Master’s Words concerning Woman)
F a Thousand Years it is nigh unto the Fiftieth Part,
o my Son, since I obtained Favour in the Light of a
great Master of the Truth, whom Men call Allan
Bennett, so that he received me for his Disciple in Magick.
And he was instant with me in his Matter, and vehement,
adjuring his Gods that this (which I have myself here above
declared unto thee) was the Truth concerning the Nature of
Woman.
But I being but a Youth, and Headstrong, and
being enraptured in Love of Women, and Admiration of
Them, and Worship, delighting in them eagerly, and learning
constantly from them, nourished by the Milk of heir Mystery,
as it should be for all true Men, did resist angrily the
Doctrine of that most holy Man of God. And because, (as it
was written) he was a vowed Virgin from his Birth, and had
no Commerce with any in the Way of Carnality, I disabled
his Judgment herein, as if he, being a Fish, had disallowed the
Flight of Birds. But I, o my Son, am not wholly ignorant of
Women, save as all Mem must be in the Limitation of their
Nature, for the Number of my Concubines is not notably or
shamefully exceeded by that of the Phases of he Moon since
my Birth. Many also have been my Disciples in Magick that
were Women; and (more also) I do owe, acknowledging the
same with open Gladness, the greater Part of mine own
Initiation and Advancement to the Operation of Women.
Notwithstanding all these Things, I bow humbly before Allan
Bennett, and repent mine Insolence, for his Saying was
Sooth.
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