From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
Subject: Liber Pennae Praenumbra (was Re: Horus and the New Aeon)
Summary: Here it is
Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:41:10 GMT

In article <joshua.711459276@coombs>,
	joshua@coombs.anu.edu.au (Joshua Geller) writes:

> have you read liber pennae praenumbra? (has anyone? would anyone who
> has a copy like to post it to the net?)

Yes, I've read it and can post it.  I found it interesting enough
at the time to type in (this was some years ago, before cheap OCR).
I'll append a shell archive to this article, containing both troff
-ms source and a formatted (plain ASCII) version for those with no
access to troff (or perhaps to -ms).

Once I started doing practical work with the images in this text,
I came to the conclusion that it's like a lot of the so-called
`inspired' writing one sees in magical literature, namely mostly
bunk.  On the other hand, what's sauce for the goose may be bull's
blood for the gander, so here it is, enjoy.  (If whoever is in
charge of the archives on slopoke -- who is that, by the way? --
wants to put this there, or in any other archive, please do.)

By the way, I typed this in from the issue of the Cincinnati Journal
in which it was originally published.  I'd be most interested in
knowing if it has seen further publication, and hearing comments
from others who have read it.

-- 
John Mackin <john@physiol.su.oz.au>
`Even the white bits are black.'

# To unbundle, sh this file
echo maat 1>&2
sed 's/.//' >maat <<'//GO.SYSIN DD maat'
-.ND
-.DS C
-.B
-Liber Pennae Praenumbra
-.R
-.DE
-.LP
-In the Akasha-Echo is this inscribed:
-.LP
-By the same mouth, O Mother of the Sun, is the word breathed forth
-and the nectar received.  By the same breath, O Counterweight
-of the Heart, is the manifest created and destroyed.
-.LP
-There is but one gate, though there appear to be nine,
-Mime-dancer of the Stars.  How beautiful thy weft and web,
-a-shimmering in the fire-dark of space!
-.LP
-The two that are nothing salute you, Black Flame that moves
-Hadit!  The less and less One grows, the more and more Pra-NU
-may manifest.  Do thou now speak to us, the children of the
-time-to-come; declare thy will and grant thy Love to us!
-.DS C
-.B
-Then spake She That Moves:
-.R
-.DE
-.LP
-I hurl upon ye, Children of Heru!  All ye who love the Law and
-keep it, keeping Naught unto yourselves, are ye a-blest.  Ye have
-sought the scattered pieces of Our Lord, ceasing never to assemble
-all that has been.  And in the Realm of the Dead have ye begotten
-from the Dead the Shining One.  Ye then gave birth, and nourished
-Him.
-.LP
-Thy Land of Milk shall have the honey also, dropped down as dew
-by the Divine Gynander.  The pleasure and delight lie in the Working,
-the Whole surpassing far the Parts together.
-.LP
-The Lord of Parts is placed within his kingdom, as done by Beast
-and Bird.  The land of Sun is open but to Children.  Heed the
-Eternal Child \(em his Way is flowing-free, and suited to
-the Nature of your being.
-.LP
-A Voice crieth in the Crystal Echo:
-.LP
-What means this showing-forth?  Is Time Itself awry?  The Hawk
-has flown but threescore and ten in His allotted course!
-.LP
-She smiles, as beauteous as Night:
-.LP
-Behold, He spreads His pinions yet in flight, showering and shaking
-forth the Golden Light upon the hearts of men.  And wherein doth He
-fly, and by what means?  The Feather and the Air are His to ride,
-to bear him ever in his GO-ing.
-.LP
-The pylons of the ages are unshaken, firmly are they Set.  The Day
-of the Hawk has but seen its dawning, and will see its due measure
-according to the Laws of Time and Space.
-.LP
-The Voice then spoke:
-.LP
-Then has the Vision failed?  Do I behold Thee crookedly, thinking
-Thee to be Whom Thou art Not?
-.LP
-She danced and whirled, scattering starlight in her silent laughter.
-.LP
-I Am Whom I appear to be, at times, and then again I wear a triple
-veil.  Be not confused!  Above all, Truth prevails.
-.LP
-I am the Unconfined.  Who is there to say me nay, to say, ``Thou
-shalt not pass.''?  Who indeed may say, ``Thy time is yet to
-come,'' when Time itself is my chief serving-maid, and Space
-the Major-domo of my Temple?
-.LP
-Indeed, O Voice of the Akasha, I am the means by which you speak.
-By the same mouth that breathes the Air, do words of doubt pour
-forth.  In silence then, do know Me.  For I am come with purpose
-at this time, to aid the Lovers of the Hawk to fly.
-.DS C
-.B
-The Word of Flight
-.DE
-.LP
-.B
-Who falters in the Flight must thereby fall: the
-greatness of the Gods is in the GO-ing.
-.R
-.LP
-When first ye fledged, Beloved of Heru, the shell which had
-protected long had broken.  Upon the Wings of Will ye ventured
-forth, gaining strength and power as ye flew.  Ye gained all
-knowledge of the Feathered Kingdom, whereby ye became as perfect
-as the Sun.  The friends and teachers all became as brothers.
-.LP
-The regal Swan, the Heron and the Owl \(em the Raven and the
-Cockerel did aid ye.  The Beauty of the Hawk Himself was granted,
-the virtues of the Peacock, the Hummingbird and Loon.  The Eagle
-did reveal her inner nature and the mysteries thereof \(em behold,
-ye witnessed how, with her Lion, she became the Swan.  And the
-Ibis of the Abyss did show the Knowledge.
-.LP
-Ye flew, O Kings and Hermits!  And ye fly even now, within the
-bending loveliness of NU.  But there are those among ye, and
-below ye, who would snare your wings and drag ye from the sky.
-.LP
-Look well within!  Judge well your Heart!  If ye be pure, it
-weighs no more than I.  It will not bear ye down to the Abyss.
-For Gold is Light, but Lead is fatal unto flying \(em plumb
-your own depths, in Truth and in self-knowledge.
-.LP
-If aught would hinder thee, it is thy doing.  Behold this
-teaching now within the Temple.
-.LP
-So saying, She-Who-Moves assumed the form of the great Black Flame,
-growing from the central shaft and billowing out into the Void.
-The Children of Heru beheld in silence, and listened to Her
-words form in their hearts.
-.LP
-Behold!  This lens of Stars now turning in Space before ye \(em
-men have named it well Andromeda.  Through it I flow unto the
-holy Moondog, and thence to Ra, and thence to ye, O Priests.
-.LP
-Ye must not rest content whilst in the Kingdom, but strive and
-so exceed in what is done.  In Love of the Lady of the North,
-and in Will of the Prince of the South, do every thing soever.
-In the power of the Seven-rayed Star do ye comprehend the Beast.
-And from HAD of the Heart do delight in thy star-arched darling.
-.LP
-Do all this, and then, pass beyond.  Abandon aught that might
-distinguish thee from any other thing, yea, or from no-thing.
-If the fowler would snare thee, leave thy feather-cloak a-dangle
-in his hand and soar naked and invisible beyond!
-.LP
-But now!  As priests within the Temple are ye here, as Kings, and
-Warriors, Magickians all.  The Way is in the Work.
-.LP
-The Hidden One of the Abyss now gives the two wherein is wrought
-the higher Alchemy: supporting Earth is Chthonos \(em learn it well,
-and all bonds shall be loosed for the Will's Working.  Surmounting
-Spirit, there is Ychronos, whose nature is duration and the
-passing-away thereof.
-.LP
-The two are one, and form the Kingdom's essence.  Who masters them
-is Master of the World.  They are the utter keys of Transmutation,
-and keys of the power of the other Elements.
-.LP
-The Warrior-Priests received the Keys, and placed them within
-their robes, to hold them hidden well above their hearts.
-The Black Flame danced and dwindled, becoming small, a quill
-pen, plumed and pointed.  There being naught upon which to write,
-one among the Priests came forth, and laid his body's skin upon
-the altar as living parchment.
-.LP
-She-Who-Moves wrote thereupon a Word, but shew it not before them.
-In patience waited all the Kings and Hermits, assured full well of
-final Understanding.
-.LP
-The Feather grew again, and rounded close its edges, becoming to their
-eyes the Yonilingam.  The image came of Ancient Baphomet, the Horned
-One, who spoke:
-.LP
-Of old ye knew the Key of Two-in-One conjoined.  Ye have lived and loved
-full measure as NU and HAD, as PAN and BABALON.  The Mystery of mine
-own image do ye also know, for such a Truth was for the ancient
-Orders of the East and West.
-.LP
-Bipartite has the Race of Man been in its span.  The Father and the
-Mother made a Child.  I am the elder of the Children, true \(em
-but now the younger rises to His Day.
-.LP
-The nature of true Alchemy is that it changes not alone the substance
-of the Work, but also changes thence the Alchemist.  Ye whose Will it
-is to Work thereby, behold mine inverse image, and consider well
-its meaning for thy Task.
-.DS C
-.B
-The Showing of the Image
-.R
-.DE
-.LP
-From out of the Yonilingam drifted forth a Cloud, violet and light-shot.
-In the misty heart thereof a sound arose, vibrating soft, yet filling
-everywhere.
-.LP
-Jeweled and flashing rainbow-lights from wings, there hovered in the
-midst a humble BEE.  Striped gold and brown, soft-haired and curved in
-form, it shone its eyes unto the Priests and Kings assembled.
-.LP
-Spoke then She-Who-Moves from out of the mist surrounding:
-.LP
-This is the symbol of the Work-to-come, the Great Gynander in its
-Earthly form.  The Magickian shall grow like unto the BEE as the
-Aeon unfolds, a leader and sign unto the Race of Man.
-.LP
-What then of its nature doth the BEE show forth?
-.LP
-Behold, it is not male nor female in the singular.  It labors forth
-by day in constant flight, an egoless do-er, whose will and the Hive
-Will are but one.
-.LP
-It gathers up the flower-nectar, flies to Hive and there, in pure
-Comm-Union, doth in its very body Transubstantiate.
-.LP
-The nectar is now honey.  Bee to bee, it is transferred, speaking all
-Hive Mysteries from and to each mouth.  By the same mouth that first
-ingathered, is the honey spent, the secret Alchemy within the Centers
-turning Silver\-Gold.
-.LP
-The Hive now lives, immortal.  With queen and workers, drones and
-builder-bees, soldiers, foster-mothers \(em all are one.  In
-constant life-renewal, the Hive breathes as One Being \(em for so
-indeed it is.  In the Will of the Hive is the Will of the Bee fulfilled.
-Each in its appointed place, the Bees work out their Will in ordered
-harmony.
-.LP
-The image fades.  Now the poised Plume moves in dancing fashion,
-unfolding from the center shaft long wings, transforming to the
-shape of the dark Vulture.
-.LP
-But know, O Children of the Hawk, a Man is not a Bee.  He may
-profit from the image thereof, to learn of Wisdom in the Working.  Behold
-in Me another image for thy heart's instruction.
-.LP
-There rose before their eyes the Tower of Silence, wherein the
-Lovers of Fire lay their dead.
-.LP
-The Vulture form alighted soft therein, and ate the flesh from the
-corpses, to the bone.  The wind howled, desolate, in this fearsome
-place, fluttering the cerements about the ivory bones.
-.LP
-Silently, the Winged One stared, gore smeared about her beak.
-Into the eyes of each Priest there assembled, her baleful gaze
-did search.  In perfect peace they beheld her searching,
-for each, as Warrior, had made of Death a brother.  Deliberately
-then, she unfolded out her wings, and took to the wind, and
-soared up from that place.
-.DS C
-.B
-The Giving of the Word
-.R
-.DE
-.LP
-Eternity then reigned, Infinite the veil that hung about them.
-.LP
-Somewhere, sometime, the veil parted for a moment, and She-Who-Moves
-strode forth.  More comely than mortal woman ever was, She glowed
-in radiance of pearl and amethyst.  Fine pleated linen was Her gown,
-girded in gold and silver, and on Her head, a nemyss of starred blue.
-Her crown was but a single plume, free-standing, and in her hands the
-Ankh and Wand of healing.
-.LP
-Unto each Warrior-Priest she moved, embraced and kissed them.
-Then, seated in the midst, She spoke as comrade equally-ranked.
-.LP
-``All ye who practise well the High Art, hearken.  There shall be
-nothing hidden from thy sight.  All formulae and Words shalt thou
-discover, being initiated by those whose Work it is to aid the Law
-of Will.
-.LP
-``Ye have worked well in all that has been given; upon the Tree of
-Life are ye founded.  In Tetragrammaton have ye proceeded; in all
-the Beast hath given ye have practised well.  Ye have become Hadit,
-and NU, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit also.  As Heru-Pa-Kraath did ye abide
-in silence.  Ye know PAN as lover and as godform, and BABALON is
-bride and self to you.
-.LP
-``The forces of Shaitan have ye engendered, calling forth the nexus
-of the ninety-three wherein to work your Will.  Separation for the
-joy of Union have ye known, and Alchemy is Science to your Art.
-.LP
-``For those who know, and will, and dare, and keep in silence,
-it goes now further.
-.LP
-``In death is Life \(em for now as ever has it been so.  The
-Willed Death is eternal \(em keep it so.  Self of Ego, selfson born
-of Maya, must be slain on the moment of birth.  The unsleeping Eye
-must vigil keep, O Warriors, for the illusion is self-generate.
-.LP
-``Constant watchfulness is the first Act \(em the Abyss is crossed
-by minutes, every day.
-.LP
-``If ye would dance the Mask, then mask the Dance.  Exquisite must be
-the Art in this wise; and balance in the Center be maintained, or
-else ye shall give unwonted Life unto thine own creations.
-Tread carefully this path of Working, Mage.
-A tool, by Will devised, makes an ill master.
-.LP
-``Now in the Mass, the Eagle must be fed upon what she has shared
-in making.  By the same mouth that roars upon the mountain, is the
-word-act of No Difference given.
-.LP
-``And when Will declares, therein shall join the BEE to add the gold
-to red and white.  The essence of Shaitan is Nectar here, the Temple
-is the Hive.  The Lion is the Flower, now betimes, the Eagle invokes
-the nature of the BEE.
-.LP
-``Within the triple-chambered shrine is the first nectar pooled.
-The summons of the wand of PAN awakens the portal-opening bliss.
-And from the third and inmost chamber, in joy supreme, the Sothis-gift,
-quintessential mead, bounds forth to join Eagle-tears and Lion-blood.
-.LP
-``Solve et Coagula.  Comm-Union thereby, whereof the Cosmos itself
-dissolveth, and re-forms by Will.  And know, if aught can be so
-ordered in the Kingdom, that three or more is zero, as well as
-older truths.''
-.LP
-Then stirred the Warrior-Priests, and of their number, a nameless
-one stepped forth.
-.LP
-``We know thee, Lady, unspoken though Thy name has been thus far.
-But say now \(em what was written on the manskin?  What is the
-word Thou givest?''
-.LP
-She smiled and drew from out her robe a parchment scroll, shaped
-even as a Star.  Unrolling it, She turned it roundabout, so all
-might see.
-.DS C
-.B
-.sp
-.ps 20
-IPSOS
-.ps
-.sp
-.R
-.DE
-.LP
-``What is this Word, O Lady \(em how may it be used?''
-.LP
-``In silent wisdom, King and Warrior-Priest.  Let the deed shine
-forth and let the word be hidden; the deed is lamp enough to veil
-the face.
-.LP
-``It is the word of the twenty-third path, whose number is fifty
-and six.  It is the unspoken Abode, wherein the Dance of the Mask
-is taught by Me.  Tahuti watches without the Ape; I am the Vulture
-also.
-.LP
-``It is the Chalice of Air and Wand of Water, the Sword of Earth
-and Pantacle of Fire.  It is the hourglass and tail-biting serpent.
-It is the Ganges becoming Ocean, the Way of the Eternal Child.
-.LP
-``It names the Source of Mine Own Being \(em and yours.  It is
-the origin of this sending, that channels through Andromeda
-and Set.  What race of gods do speak to Man, O Willed Ones?
-The word of them is both the Name and the Fact.
-.LP
-``It is for thy mantram and incantation.  To speak it is to
-bring about certain change.  Be circumspect in its usage \(em
-for if its truth be known abroad, it would perchance drive the
-slaves to madness and despair.
-.LP
-``Only a true Priest-King may know it fully, and stay in balance
-through his GO-ing flight.  This is all I speak for now.  The Book
-of the Preshadowing of the Feather is complete.  Do what thou
-wilt shall be the whole of the Law.  Love is the law, love under
-will.''
-.sp 3
-.DS L
-Donat per Omn\o'\(aae'
-Scriba \(em Nema
-Sol in Capricornus
-Anno Heru LXX
-
-Cincinnati
-.DE
//GO.SYSIN DD maat
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-                  Liber Pennae Praenumbra
-
-
-In the Akasha-Echo is this inscribed:
-
-By the same mouth, O Mother of the Sun, is the word breathed
-forth  and  the  nectar  received.   By  the  same breath, O
-Counterweight of the Heart, is the manifest created and des-
-troyed.
-
-There is but one gate,  though  there  appear  to  be  nine,
-Mime-dancer  of  the Stars.  How beautiful thy weft and web,
-a-shimmering in the fire-dark of space!
-
-The two that are nothing salute you, Black Flame that  moves
-Hadit!   The less and less One grows, the more and more Pra-
-NU may manifest.  Do thou now speak to us, the  children  of
-the time-to-come; declare thy will and grant thy Love to us!
-
-                 Then spake She That Moves:
-
-
-I hurl upon ye, Children of Heru!  All ye who love  the  Law
-and keep it, keeping Naught unto yourselves, are ye a-blest.
-Ye have sought the scattered pieces  of  Our  Lord,  ceasing
-never  to  assemble  all that has been.  And in the Realm of
-the Dead have ye begotten from the Dead the Shining One.  Ye
-then gave birth, and nourished Him.
-
-Thy Land of Milk shall have the honey also, dropped down  as
-dew by the Divine Gynander.  The pleasure and delight lie in
-the Working, the Whole surpassing far the Parts together.
-
-The Lord of Parts is placed within his kingdom, as  done  by
-Beast  and  Bird.   The land of Sun is open but to Children.
-Heed the Eternal Child - his Way is flowing-free, and suited
-to the Nature of your being.
-
-A Voice crieth in the Crystal Echo:
-
-What means this showing-forth?  Is Time  Itself  awry?   The
-Hawk  has  flown  but  threescore  and  ten  in His allotted
-course!
-
-She smiles, as beauteous as Night:
-
-Behold, He spreads His pinions yet in flight, showering  and
-shaking  forth the Golden Light upon the hearts of men.  And
-wherein doth He fly, and by what means?  The Feather and the
-Air are His to ride, to bear him ever in his GO-ing.
-
-The pylons of the ages are unshaken, firmly  are  they  Set.
-The  Day  of the Hawk has but seen its dawning, and will see
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-                           - 2 -
-
-
-its due measure according to the Laws of Time and Space.
-
-The Voice then spoke:
-
-Then has the Vision failed?  Do  I  behold  Thee  crookedly,
-thinking Thee to be Whom Thou art Not?
-
-She danced and whirled, scattering starlight in  her  silent
-laughter.
-
-I Am Whom I appear to be, at times, and then again I wear  a
-triple veil.  Be not confused!  Above all, Truth prevails.
-
-I am the Unconfined.  Who is there to say me  nay,  to  say,
-``Thou shalt not pass.''?  Who indeed may say, ``Thy time is
-yet to come,'' when Time itself is  my  chief  serving-maid,
-and Space the Major-domo of my Temple?
-
-Indeed, O Voice of the Akasha, I am the means by  which  you
-speak.  By the same mouth that breathes the Air, do words of
-doubt pour forth.  In silence then, do know Me.   For  I  am
-come  with  purpose  at  this time, to aid the Lovers of the
-Hawk to fly.
-
-                     The Word of Flight
-
-
-Who falters in the Flight must thereby fall:  the  greatness
-of the Gods is in the GO-ing.
-
-When first ye fledged, Beloved of Heru, the shell which  had
-protected  long  had broken.  Upon the Wings of Will ye ven-
-tured forth, gaining strength and  power  as  ye  flew.   Ye
-gained  all  knowledge  of the Feathered Kingdom, whereby ye
-became as perfect as the Sun.  The friends and teachers  all
-became as brothers.
-
-The regal Swan, the Heron and the Owl - the  Raven  and  the
-Cockerel  did  aid  ye.   The Beauty of the Hawk Himself was
-granted, the virtues of the  Peacock,  the  Hummingbird  and
-Loon.   The  Eagle  did reveal her inner nature and the mys-
-teries thereof - behold, ye witnessed how,  with  her  Lion,
-she became the Swan.  And the Ibis of the Abyss did show the
-Knowledge.
-
-Ye flew, O Kings and Hermits!  And ye fly even  now,  within
-the bending loveliness of NU.  But there are those among ye,
-and below ye, who would snare your wings and  drag  ye  from
-the sky.
-
-Look well within!  Judge well your Heart!  If ye be pure, it
-weighs  no  more  than  I.   It will not bear ye down to the
-Abyss.  For Gold is Light, but Lead is fatal unto  flying  -
-plumb your own depths, in Truth and in self-knowledge.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-                           - 3 -
-
-
-If aught would hinder thee, it is thy  doing.   Behold  this
-teaching now within the Temple.
-
-So saying, She-Who-Moves assumed the form of the great Black
-Flame, growing from the central shaft and billowing out into
-the Void.  The Children  of  Heru  beheld  in  silence,  and
-listened to Her words form in their hearts.
-
-Behold!  This lens of Stars now turning in Space before ye -
-men  have  named  it well Andromeda.  Through it I flow unto
-the holy Moondog, and thence to Ra, and thence to ye, O Pri-
-ests.
-
-Ye must not rest content whilst in the Kingdom,  but  strive
-and  so  exceed in what is done.  In Love of the Lady of the
-North, and in Will of the Prince  of  the  South,  do  every
-thing  soever.   In  the power of the Seven-rayed Star do ye
-comprehend the Beast.  And from HAD of the Heart do  delight
-in thy star-arched darling.
-
-Do all this, and then,  pass  beyond.   Abandon  aught  that
-might  distinguish  thee  from any other thing, yea, or from
-no-thing.   If  the  fowler  would  snare  thee,  leave  thy
-feather-cloak  a-dangle  in  his  hand  and  soar  naked and
-invisible beyond!
-
-But now!  As priests within  the  Temple  are  ye  here,  as
-Kings,  and  Warriors,  Magickians  all.   The Way is in the
-Work.
-
-The Hidden One of the Abyss now gives  the  two  wherein  is
-wrought  the  higher Alchemy: supporting Earth is Chthonos -
-learn it well, and all bonds shall be loosed for the  Will's
-Working.   Surmounting  Spirit,  there  is  Ychronos,  whose
-nature is duration and the passing-away thereof.
-
-The two are one, and form the Kingdom's essence.   Who  mas-
-ters  them  is Master of the World.  They are the utter keys
-of Transmutation, and keys of the power of  the  other  Ele-
-ments.
-
-The Warrior-Priests  received  the  Keys,  and  placed  them
-within  their  robes,  to  hold them hidden well above their
-hearts.  The  Black  Flame  danced  and  dwindled,  becoming
-small,  a quill pen, plumed and pointed.  There being naught
-upon which to write, one among the Priests came  forth,  and
-laid his body's skin upon the altar as living parchment.
-
-She-Who-Moves wrote thereupon a Word, but shew it not before
-them.  In patience waited all the Kings and Hermits, assured
-full well of final Understanding.
-
-The Feather grew again, and rounded close its edges,  becom-
-ing to their eyes the Yonilingam.  The image came of Ancient
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-                           - 4 -
-
-
-Baphomet, the Horned One, who spoke:
-
-Of old ye knew the Key of  Two-in-One  conjoined.   Ye  have
-lived  and  loved  full  measure  as  NU and HAD, as PAN and
-BABALON.  The Mystery of mine own image do ye also know, for
-such  a  Truth  was  for  the ancient Orders of the East and
-West.
-
-Bipartite has the Race of Man been in its span.  The  Father
-and  the  Mother  made a Child.  I am the elder of the Chil-
-dren, true - but now the younger rises to His Day.
-
-The nature of true Alchemy is that it changes not alone  the
-substance  of  the Work, but also changes thence the Alchem-
-ist.  Ye whose Will it  is  to  Work  thereby,  behold  mine
-inverse image, and consider well its meaning for thy Task.
-
-                  The Showing of the Image
-
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-From out of the Yonilingam drifted forth a Cloud, violet and
-light-shot.   In  the  misty  heart  thereof  a sound arose,
-vibrating soft, yet filling everywhere.
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-Jeweled  and  flashing  rainbow-lights  from  wings,   there
-hovered  in the midst a humble BEE.  Striped gold and brown,
-soft-haired and curved in form, it shone its eyes  unto  the
-Priests and Kings assembled.
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-Spoke then She-Who-Moves from out of the mist surrounding:
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-This is the symbol of the Work-to-come, the  Great  Gynander
-in its Earthly form.  The Magickian shall grow like unto the
-BEE as the Aeon unfolds, a leader and sign unto the Race  of
-Man.
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-What then of its nature doth the BEE show forth?
-
-Behold, it is not male  nor  female  in  the  singular.   It
-labors  forth  by  day in constant flight, an egoless do-er,
-whose will and the Hive Will are but one.
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-It gathers up the flower-nectar, flies to Hive and there, in
-pure Comm-Union, doth in its very body Transubstantiate.
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-The nectar is now honey.  Bee to  bee,  it  is  transferred,
-speaking  all Hive Mysteries from and to each mouth.  By the
-same mouth that first ingathered, is the  honey  spent,  the
-secret Alchemy within the Centers turning SilverGold.
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-The Hive now  lives,  immortal.   With  queen  and  workers,
-drones  and builder-bees, soldiers, foster-mothers - all are
-one.  In constant life-renewal, the  Hive  breathes  as  One
-Being - for so indeed it is.  In the Will of the Hive is the
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-Will of the Bee fulfilled.  Each in its appointed place, the
-Bees work out their Will in ordered harmony.
-
-The image fades.  Now the  poised  Plume  moves  in  dancing
-fashion,   unfolding  from  the  center  shaft  long  wings,
-transforming to the shape of the dark Vulture.
-
-But know, O Children of the Hawk, a Man is not  a  Bee.   He
-may profit from the image thereof, to learn of Wisdom in the
-Working.   Behold  in  Me  another  image  for  thy  heart's
-instruction.
-
-There rose before their eyes the Tower of  Silence,  wherein
-the Lovers of Fire lay their dead.
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-The Vulture form alighted soft therein, and  ate  the  flesh
-from  the  corpses, to the bone.  The wind howled, desolate,
-in this fearsome place, fluttering the cerements  about  the
-ivory bones.
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-Silently, the Winged One  stared,  gore  smeared  about  her
-beak.   Into  the  eyes  of each Priest there assembled, her
-baleful gaze did search.  In perfect peace they  beheld  her
-searching,  for  each,  as  Warrior,  had  made  of  Death a
-brother.  Deliberately then, she unfolded out her wings, and
-took to the wind, and soared up from that place.
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-                   The Giving of the Word
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-Eternity then reigned, Infinite the  veil  that  hung  about
-them.
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-Somewhere, sometime, the veil parted for a moment, and  She-
-Who-Moves  strode forth.  More comely than mortal woman ever
-was, She glowed in radiance of  pearl  and  amethyst.   Fine
-pleated  linen  was Her gown, girded in gold and silver, and
-on Her head, a nemyss of starred blue.  Her crown was but  a
-single  plume,  free-standing, and in her hands the Ankh and
-Wand of healing.
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-Unto each Warrior-Priest  she  moved,  embraced  and  kissed
-them.   Then,  seated  in  the  midst,  She spoke as comrade
-equally-ranked.
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-``All ye who practise well the  High  Art,  hearken.   There
-shall  be  nothing  hidden from thy sight.  All formulae and
-Words shalt thou discover, being initiated  by  those  whose
-Work it is to aid the Law of Will.
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-``Ye have worked well in all that has been given;  upon  the
-Tree of Life are ye founded.  In Tetragrammaton have ye pro-
-ceeded; in all the Beast hath given ye have practised  well.
-Ye  have  become  Hadit, and NU, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit also.  As
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-Heru-Pa-Kraath did ye abide in  silence.   Ye  know  PAN  as
-lover and as godform, and BABALON is bride and self to you.
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-``The forces of Shaitan have ye  engendered,  calling  forth
-the  nexus  of  the  ninety-three wherein to work your Will.
-Separation for the joy of Union have ye known,  and  Alchemy
-is Science to your Art.
-
-``For those who know,  and  will,  and  dare,  and  keep  in
-silence, it goes now further.
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-``In death is Life - for now as ever has it  been  so.   The
-Willed  Death is eternal - keep it so.  Self of Ego, selfson
-born of Maya, must be slain on the  moment  of  birth.   The
-unsleeping Eye must vigil keep, O Warriors, for the illusion
-is self-generate.
-
-``Constant watchfulness is the first  Act  -  the  Abyss  is
-crossed by minutes, every day.
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-``If  ye  would  dance  the  Mask,  then  mask  the   Dance.
-Exquisite  must  be the Art in this wise; and balance in the
-Center be maintained, or else ye shall  give  unwonted  Life
-unto  thine  own  creations.   Tread  carefully this path of
-Working, Mage.  A tool, by Will devised, makes an  ill  mas-
-ter.
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-``Now in the Mass, the Eagle must be fed upon what  she  has
-shared  in  making.   By  the same mouth that roars upon the
-mountain, is the word-act of No Difference given.
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-``And when Will declares, therein shall join the BEE to  add
-the gold to red and white.  The essence of Shaitan is Nectar
-here, the Temple is the Hive.  The Lion is the  Flower,  now
-betimes, the Eagle invokes the nature of the BEE.
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-``Within the triple-chambered shrine  is  the  first  nectar
-pooled.   The summons of the wand of PAN awakens the portal-
-opening bliss.  And from the third and  inmost  chamber,  in
-joy  supreme,  the  Sothis-gift, quintessential mead, bounds
-forth to join Eagle-tears and Lion-blood.
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-``Solve et Coagula.  Comm-Union thereby, whereof the  Cosmos
-itself dissolveth, and re-forms by Will.  And know, if aught
-can be so ordered in the Kingdom,  that  three  or  more  is
-zero, as well as older truths.''
-
-Then stirred the Warrior-Priests, and  of  their  number,  a
-nameless one stepped forth.
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-``We know thee, Lady, unspoken though Thy name has been thus
-far.   But  say now - what was written on the manskin?  What
-is the word Thou givest?''
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-She smiled and drew from out her robe  a  parchment  scroll,
-shaped  even as a Star.  Unrolling it, She turned it rounda-
-bout, so all might see.
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-``What is this Word, O Lady - how may it be used?''
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-``In silent wisdom, King and Warrior-Priest.  Let  the  deed
-shine  forth  and  let  the word be hidden; the deed is lamp
-enough to veil the face.
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-``It is the word of the twenty-third path, whose  number  is
-fifty  and six.  It is the unspoken Abode, wherein the Dance
-of the Mask is taught by Me.   Tahuti  watches  without  the
-Ape; I am the Vulture also.
-
-``It is the Chalice of Air and Wand of Water, the  Sword  of
-Earth  and  Pantacle of Fire.  It is the hourglass and tail-
-biting serpent.  It is the Ganges becoming Ocean, the Way of
-the Eternal Child.
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-``It names the Source of Mine Own Being - and yours.  It  is
-the  origin of this sending, that channels through Andromeda
-and Set.  What race of gods do speak to Man, O Willed  Ones?
-The word of them is both the Name and the Fact.
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-``It is for thy mantram and incantation.  To speak it is  to
-bring  about  certain change.  Be circumspect in its usage -
-for if its truth be known abroad, it would  perchance  drive
-the slaves to madness and despair.
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-``Only a true Priest-King may know it  fully,  and  stay  in
-balance  through his GO-ing flight.  This is all I speak for
-now.  The Book of the Preshadowing of the  Feather  is  com-
-plete.   Do  what  thou  wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
-Love is the law, love under will.''
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-Donat per Omne
-Scriba - Nema
-Sol in Capricornus
-Anno Heru LXX
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