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1909 · PDF PAGE 53

The Holy Books

… 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 Harmonyand 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…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 43

The Holy Books

…ret in songs upon the lyre. Now did the Horror of Time pervert all things, hiding the Purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. Yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firma- ment, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. And the Black Brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. Also there rose up a soul of filth and of weak- ness, and it corrupted all the rule of the Tao. 44

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1909 · PDF PAGE 45

The Holy Books

…herefore was the end of it sorrow; yet in that sorrow a sixfold star of glory whereby they might see to return unto the stainless Abode; yea, unto the Stainless Abode.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 58

The Holy Books

6. And I came and saw, even I, Perdurabo, the Philosophus of the Outer College. 7. Yea, even I the man beheld this wonder. 8. And I could not deliver it unto myself. 9. That which established me is invisible and unknowable in its essence. IO. Only they who know IT may be known. II. For they have the genius of the mighty sword 418. 12. And they are not deceived by any of these things; for by their subtlety do they expand them all into the Twelve Rays of the Crown. 13. And these twelve rays are One.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 54

The Holy Books

…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.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 62

The Holy Books

… unto One, and beyond One, even unto the vision of the Fool in his folly that chanted the word Ararita,and beyond the Word and the Fool; yea, beyond the Word and the Fool.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

The Holy Books

…u are sad know that I have for- saken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, and not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be kings for ever. The slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garments as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. 59. Bew…

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