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15. Nor do thou deceive thyself. It is easy to tell the live force
from
the dead matter. It is no easier to tell the live snake from the dead
snake.
16. Also concerning vows. Be obstinate, and be not obstinate.
Understand
that the yielding of the Yoni is one with the lengthening of the Lingam.
Thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on
Mount
Meru.
17. How shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of
the
Spirit, the Lord of Creation. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver
Star
that ye adore.
18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be
equilibrated
with the Three.
19. There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine
honour.
20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments.
21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the
ass,
and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child.
22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in
mine
eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man
gathereth
himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of
him.
23. I am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than I.
24. Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apollo; my gifts exceed the
olive and
the horse.
25. Who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites.
26. I am concealed with all concealments; when the Most Holy Ancient
One
is stripped and driven through the market place, I am still secret and
apart.
27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods.
28. All things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me.
29. For there is no holiness where I am not.
30. Fear not when I fall in the fury of the storm; for mine acorns
are
blown afar by the wind; and verily I shall rise again,
and my childeren about me, so that we shall uplift our forest in
Eternity.
31. Eternity is the storm that covereth me.
32. I am Existence, the Existence that existeth not save through its
own
Existence, that is beyond the Existence of Existences, and rooted deeper
than
the No-Thing-Tree in the Land of No-Thing.
33. Now therefore thou knowest when I am within Thee, when my hood is
spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and
resistless as the Giant Glacier.
34. For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy nakedness in the
bazaar,
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