THE EQUINOX
51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as
he hangs upon the cross.
52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind
him.
53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and
the Buddhist, Mongol and Din.
54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake
let all chaste women be utterly despised among you!
56. Also for beauty’s sake and love's!
57- Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who
dare not fight, but play : all fools despise!
58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty;
ye are brothers!
59. As brothers fight ye!
60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in
Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul.
62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through
tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss.
63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com-
ment; & he understandeth it not.
64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to
him as silver.
65. Through the second, gold.
66. Through the third, stones of precious water.
67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate
fire.
68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who
say not so, are mere liars.
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