THE EQUINOX
God is the strife of fatal forces, which always create through
destruction.
The things of religion are passive and transitory.
Boldness makes use of them, war profits by them, and it is
by them that discord is perpetuated.
3°.—Finally, the qabalistic monogram of Jehovah, the JOD
and the HE, but upside down. This is, according to the
doctors of occult science, the most frightful of all blasphemies,
and signifies, however one may read it, “Fatality alone
exists: God and the Spirit are not. Matter is all, and spirit
is only a fiction of this matter demented. Form is more than
idea, woman more than man, pleasure more than thought, vice
more than virtue, the mob more than its chiefs, the children
more than their fathers, folly more than reason!”
There is what was written in characters of blood upon the
pretended miraculous hosts of Vintras!
We affirm upon our honour that the facts cited above are
such as we have stated, and that we ourselves saw and
explained the characters according to magical science and the
true keys of the Qabalah.
The disciple of Vintras also communicated to us the
description and design of the pontifical vestments given, said
he, by Jesus Christ Himself to the pretended prophet, during
one of his ecstatic trances. Vintras had these vestments
made, and clothes himself with them in order to perform
his miracles. They are red in colour. He wears upon his
forehead a cross in the form of a lingam; and his pastoral
staff is surmounted by a hand, all of whose fingers are closed,
except the thumb and the little finger.
Now, all that is diabolical in the highest degree. And is
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