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… There was Krishna. There was Tahuti. There was Mosheh. There was Dionysus.’ There was Mahmud. But the Seventh men called PERDURABO; for enduring unto The End, at The End was Naught to endure.® Amen.
…eeing that I am old and well stricken in years, and that my natural forces fail, there- fore do I rise up in my throne and call upon THE END. For I am youth eternal and force infinite. And at THE END is SHE that was LAY- LAH, and BABALON, and NUIT, being 108
Wilt Thou endure unto The End, O FRATER PERDURABO, O Lamp in The Abyss? Thou hast the Keystone of the Royal Arch; yet the Apprentices, instead of making bricks, put the straws in their hair, and think they are Jesus Christ! O sublime tragedy and comedy of THE GREAT WORK!
Hear then the Oath, witch-moon of blood, dread moon! Let all thy stryges and thy ghouls attend! He that endureth even to the end Hath sworn that Love’s own corpse shall lie at noon Even in the coffin of its hopes, and spend All the force won by its old woe and stress In now annihilating Nothingness, This chapter is called Imperial Purple and A Punic War.
the centre, and raise thy voice in the Paian, with these words 10 TIAN with the signs of N. O. X. Extend the arms in the form of a Tau, and say low but clear: WIPO MOY IYITEC OIWICQ MOY TEAETAPXAI EI AEZIA CYNOXEC ETTAPICTEPA AAIMONEC ®AETEI TAP TIEPI MOY O ACTHP TQN TENTE KAI EN THI CTHAHI O ACTHP TON EZ ECTHKE. Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst begin.
…AAH NB THE BULL-BAITING Fourscore and eleven books wrote I; in each did I expound THE GREAT WORK fully, from The Beginning even unto The End thereof. Then at last came certain men unto me, saying: O Master! Expound thou THE GREAT WORK unto us, O Master! And I held my peace. O generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the Wrath that is fallen upon you? O Babblers, Prattlers, Talkers, Loquacious Ones, Tatlers, Chewers of the Red Rag that inflameth Apis the Redeemer to fury, learn firstwhat isWork! and THE GREAT WORK is not so far beyond…
…sked for love; worst bargain of all. And now he has let his girl go to America, to have ‘“‘success” in “‘life’’: blank loss. Is there no end to this immortal ache That haunts me, haunts me sleeping or awake? If I had Laylah, how could I forget Time, Age, and Death? Insufferable fret! Were I an hermit, how could I support The pain of consciousness, the curse of thought? Even were I THAT, there still were one sore spot— The Abyss that stretches between THAT and NOT. Still, the first step is not so far away:—
…sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along That Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. O thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest. For there is no Thou upon That Path: thou hast become The Way.
…hunger, and its death satiety. The desire of the moth for the star at least saves him satiety. satiable even for the finite; thus at The End shalt thou devour the finite, and become the infinite. Be thou more greedy than the shark, more full of yearning than the wind among the pines. The weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiated pilgrim stops. The road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome. Do this by virtue of THAT in thyself before which law and nature are but shadows.