FRATER SUPERIOR BAPHOMET X
Liber CVI
{Book 106}
Concerning Death
AN EPISTLE OF BAPHOMET to the Illustrious Dame Anna Wright, Companion of the
Holy Graal, shining like the moon, concerning Death, that she and her sisters
may bring comfort to all them that are nigh death, and to such as have them.
Beloved Daughter and Sister,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Let it be thy Will and the will of all them that tend upon the sick, to
comfort and to fortify them with these words following.
I
IT is written in The Book of the Law Every man and every woman is a Star. It
is Our Lady of the Stars that speaketh to thee, O thou that art a star, a
member of the Body of Nuith! Listen, for thine ears become dulled to the mean
noises of the earth; the infinite silence of the Stars woos thee with subtile
musick. Behold her bending down above thee, a flame of blue, all-touching,
all-penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, and her lithe body
arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers, and think
that all thy grossness shall presently fall from thee as thou leapest to her
embrace, caught up into her love as a dewdrop into the kisses of the sunrise.
Is not the ecstasy of Nuit the consciousness of the continuity of existence,
the omnipresence of her body? All that hath hurt thee was that thou knewest
it not, and as that fadeth from thee thou shalt know as never yet how all is
one. Again She saith: I give unimaginable joys upon earth, certainty, not
faith, while in life, upon death. This thou hast known. Time that eateth his
children hath not power on them that would not be children of Time. To them
that think themselves immortal, that dwell alway in eternity, conscious of
Nuit, throned upon the chariot of the sun, there is no death that men call
death. In all the universe darkness is only to be found in the shadow of a
gross and opaque planet, as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a
flood of light eternal. So also death is but through accident; thou hast
hidden thyself in the shadow of thy gross body, and taking it for reality,
thou hast trembled. But the orb revolveth anon; the shadow passeth away from
thee. There is the dissolution, and the eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu!
For inasmuch as thou hast made the Law of Freedom thine, as thou hast lived
in Light and Liberty and Love, thou hast become a Free-man of the City of the
Stars.
II
LISTEN again to thine own voice within thee. Is not Hadit the flame that
burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star? Is not He Life,
and the giver of Life? And is not therefore the knowledge of Him the
knowledge of Death? For it hath been shown unto thee in many other places how
Death and Love be twins. Now art thou the hunter, and Death rideth beside
thee with his horse and spear as thou chasest thy Will through the forests
of Eternity, whose trees are the hair of Nuit thy mistress! Thrill with the
joy of life and death! Know, hunter mighty and swift, the quarry turns to
bay! Thou hast but to make one sharp thrust, and thou hast won. The Virgin
of Eternity lies supine at thy mercy, and thou art Pan! Thy death shall be
the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Hast thou not striven to the
inmost in thee? Death is the crown of all. Harden! Hold up thyself! Lift
thine head! breathe not so deepdie!
III
OR art thou still entangled with the thorny plaits of wild briar rose that
thou hast woven in thy magick dance on earth? Art not thine eyes strong
enough to bear the starlight? Must thou linger yet awhile in the valley? Must
thou dally with the shadows in the dusk? Then if it be Thy Will, thou hast
no right but to do Thy Will! Love still these phantoms of the earth; thou
hast made thyself a King; if it please thee to play with toys of matter, were
they not made to serve thy pleasure? Then follow in thy mind the wondrous
word of the Stele of Revealing itself. Return if thou wilt from the abode of
the Stars; dewll with mortality, and feast thereon. For thou art this day
Lord of Heaven and of Earth.
"The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Saith with his voice of truth and calm:
O thou that hast a single arm!
O thou that glitterest in the moon!
I weave thee in the spinning charm
I lure thee with the billowy tune.
The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Hath parted from the darkling crowds
Hath joined the dwellers of the light
Opening Duant, the star-abodes,
Their keys receiving.
The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Hath made his passage into night
His pleasure on the earth to do
Among the living."
Love is the law, love under will.
The Benediction of the All-Begetter, All-Devourer be upon thee.
Baphomet X O.T.O.
Given under Our hand and seal this day of An XII the Sun our Father being in
Leo, and the Moon in Pisces, from the throne ofIreland, Iona and all the
Britains that is in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis.
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