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AND on the seventh day there went forth from the
presence of God a mighty angel, full of wrath and consuming, and God gave unto
him the dominion of the outermost sphere.
2. Eternity brought forth time; the
boundless gave birth to limit; being descended into generation.
3. As lightning I beheld Satan fall
from heaven, splendid in strength and fury.
4. Among the Gods is none like unto
Him, into whose hand are committed the kingdoms, the power and the glory of the
worlds:
5. Thrones and empires, the dynasties
of kings, the fall of nations, the birth of churches, the triumphs of time.
6. They arise and pass, they were and
are not; the sea and the dust and the immense mystery of space devour them.
7. The tramp of armies, the voices of
joy and of pain, the cry of the new-born babe, the shout of the warrior mortally
smitten.
8. Marriage, divorce, division,
violent deaths, martyrdoms, tyrannous ignorances, the
impotence of passionate protest, and the mad longing for oblivion:
9. The eyes of the tiger in the
jungle, the fang of the snake, the fœtor of
slaughter-houses, the wail of innocent beasts in pain:
10. The innumerable incarnations of
spirit, the strife towards manhood, the ceaseless pulse and current of desire: –
11. These are his who beareth all the Gods on his shoulders; [V] who establisheth the pillars of necessity and
fate.
12. Many names hath God given him,
names of mystery, secret and terrible.
13. God called him Satan the
Adversary, because matter opposeth spirit, and time accuseth even the saints of the Lord.
14. And the Destroyer, for his arm breaketh and grindeth to pieces;
wherefore the fear and the dread of him are upon all flesh.
15. And the Avenger, for he is the
anger of God; his breath shall burn up all the souls of the wicked.
16. And the Sifter, for he straineth all things through his sieve, dividing the husk
from the grain; discovering the thoughts of the heart; proving and purifying the
spirit of man.
17. And the Deceiver, for he maketh the false appear true, and
concealeth
the real under the mask of illusion.
18. And the Tempter, for he setteth snares before the feet of the elect: he beguileth with vain shows, and seduceth
with enchantments.
19. Blessed are they who withstand
his subtlety: they shall be called the Sons of God, and shall enter in at the
beautiful gates.
20. For Satan is the doorkeeper of
the temple of the King: he standeth in Solomon’s
porch; he holdeth the keys of the sanctuary;
21. That no man may enter therein
save the Anointed, having the arcanum of Hermes.
22. For Satan is the Spirit of the
Fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom.
23. He is the devourer of the unwise
and the evil: they shall all be meat and drink to him.
24. Whatsoever he devoureth, that shall never more return into being.
25. Fear him, for after he hath
killed, he hath power to cast into hell.
26. But he is the servant of the Sons
of God, and of the children of light.
27. They shall go before him, and he
shall follow the steps of the wise.
28. Stand in awe of him and sin not:
speak his name with trembling; and beseech God daily to deliver thee.
29. For Satan is the magistrate of
the justice of God: he beareth the balance and the
sword,
30. To execute judgment and vengeance
upon all who come short of the commandments of God; to weigh their works, to
measure their desire, and to number their days,
31. For to him are committed weight
and measure and number.
32. And all things must pass under
the rod and through the balance, and be fathomed by the sounding-lead.
33. Therefore Satan is the minister
of God, Lord of the seven mansions of Hades, the angel of the manifest worlds.
34. And God hath put a girdle about
his loins, and the name of the girdle is Death.
35. Threefold are its coils, for
threefold is the power of Death, dissolving the body, the ghost, and the soul.
36. And that girdle is black within,
but where Phoibos strikes it is silver.
37. None of
the Gods is girt save Satan, for upon him only is the shame of generation.
38. He hath lost his virginal estate:
uncovering heavenly secrets, he hath entered into bondage.
39. He
encompasseth
with bonds and limits all things which are made: he putteth
chains round about the worlds, and determineth their
orbits.
40. By him are creation and
appearance; by him birth and transformation; the day of begetting and the night
of death.
41. The glory of Satan is the shadow
of the Lord: the throne of Satan is the footstool of Adonai.
42. Twain are the armies of God: in
heaven the hosts of Michael; in the abyss the legions of Satan.
43. These are the unmanifest and the manifest; the free and the bound; the
virginal and the fallen.
44. And both are the ministers of the
Father, fulfilling the word divine.
45. The legions of Satan are the
creative emanations, having the shapes of dragons, of Titans, and of elemental
gods;
46. Forsaking the intelligible world, (1) seeking manifestation, renouncing
their first estate;
47. Which were cast out into chaos,
neither was their place found any more in heaven.
48. Evil is the result of limitation,
and Satan is the Lord of limit.
49. He is the father of lies, because
matter is the cause of illusion.
50. To understand the secret of the
51. He only can put Satan under foot
who is released by thought from the bonds of desire.
52. Nature is the allegory of spirit:
all that appeareth to the sense is deceit: to know the
truth, – this alone shall make men free.
53. For the
54. For the day of Satan is the night
of spirit: the manifestation of the worlds of form is the rest of the worlds informulate.
55. Holy and venerable is the Sabbath
of God: blessed and sanctified is the name of the angel of Hades;
56. Whom the Anointed shall overcome,
rising again from the dead on the first day of the week.
57. For the place of Satan is the bourne of divine impulsion: there is the arrest of the
outgoing force; Luza, the station of pause and
slumber:
58. Where Jacob lay down and dreamed,
beholding the ladder which reached from earth to heaven.
59. For Jacob is the planetary angel
Iacchos, the Lord of the body;
60. Who hath left his father’s house,
and is gone out into a far country.
61. Yet is Luza
none other than
62. For there the Anointed awakeneth, arising from sleep, and goeth
his way rejoicing;
63. Having seen the vision of God,
and beheld the secret of Satan;
64. Even as
the Lord arose from the dead and brake the seal of the
sepulchre;
[V]
65. Which is the portal of heaven, Luza, the house of separation, the place of stony sleep;
66. Where is born the centripetal
force, drawing the soul upward and inward to God;
67. Recalling Existence into Being,
resuming the kingdoms of matter in spirit; [W]
68. Until Satan return unto his first
estate, and enter again into the heavenly obedience;
69. Having fulfilled the will of the
Father, and accomplished his holy ministry;
70. Which was ordained of God before
the worlds, for the splendour of the manifest, and for
the generation of Christ our Lord; [X]
71. Who shall judge the quick and the
dead, putting all things under his feet; whose are the dominion, the power, the
glory, and the Amen. [A]
(169:1) A portion of this illumination, viz.
28 verses of the first part (but not the 28 first verses as they stand), were
received at
(171:1) Of which
the sensible world is the antithesis. E.M.
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