II;1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
II;2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed.
I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs
is the name of my House.
II;3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference,
is nowhere found.
II;4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
II;5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be
cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this
Knowledge go aright.
II;6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of
every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the
knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
II;7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and
the cube in the circle. ``Come unto me'' is a foolish word: for it is I
that go.
II;8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the
worshipper.
II;9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.
II;10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.
II;11. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.
II;12. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.
II;13. for why? Because thou wast the knower, and me.
II;14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour
men and eat them up with blindness!
II;15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but
with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none
indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further
secret.
II;16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is
eleven.
II;17. Hear me, ye people of sighing!
The sorrows of pain and regret
Are left to the dead and the dying,
The folk that not know me as yet.
II;18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the
poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.
II;19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall
rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.
II;20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force
and fire, are of us.
II;21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in
their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp
down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our
law and the joy of the world. Think not,o king, upon that lie: That
Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be
understood:
If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy
for ever.
Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are
for the servants of the Star & the Snake.
II;22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory,
and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and
strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They
shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie,
this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong,
o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any
God shall deny thee for this.
II;23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.
II;24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends
who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the
mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women
with large limbs, and fire and light in their
eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them.
Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and
there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware
lest any force another, King against King!
Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the
fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.
II;25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
II;26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there
is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine
head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the
earth are one.
II;27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these
runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called
Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.
II;28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
II;29. May Because be accursed for ever!
II;30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops
& does nought.
II;31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
II;32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown;
& all their words are skew-wise.
II;33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!
II;34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!
II;35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!
II;36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.
II;37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride!
II;38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.
II;39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet -- secret, O Prophet!
II;40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods.
II;41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater
feast for death!
II;42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!
II;43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!
II;44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the
dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.
II;45. There is death for the dogs.
II;46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?
II;47. Where I am these are not.
II;48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I
console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.
II;49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish.
Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who
is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.)
II;50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is
in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.
II;51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.
II;52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest
woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me.
Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in
virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward
you here and hereafter.
II;53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be
sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that
thoushalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a
mask of sorrow:
they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.
II;54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought
avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of
because:
They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them
not in style or value
II;55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou
shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.
II;56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall
laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you.
II;57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy
shall be filthy still.
II;58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other.
Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves
shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all
is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be
that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his
garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide
his poverty.
II;59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed!
Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.
II;60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master!
II;61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired,
most desirable.
II;62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard
upon thy body.
II;63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the
expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a
caress of Hell's own worm.
II;64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over
thee: hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu!
Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate
peace, & write sweet words for the Kings
II;65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.
II;66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working!
Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely:
whososeeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the
promise of our age long love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice!
We are one; we are none.
II;67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the
excellent kisses!
II;68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep
-- die!
II;69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?
II;70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong!
Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If
thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love,
exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous,
let there be subtlety therein!
II;71. But exceed! exceed!
II;72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it
not, an if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.
II;73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is
forbidden, o man, unto thee.
II;74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He
that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.
II;75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
II;76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What
meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever.
There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o
chose none, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven;
to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.
II;77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
II;78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among
Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars.
They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of
the man; and the name of thy house 418.
II;79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the
prophet of the lovely Star!
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