Chapter I

Question 1

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Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

Question 2

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The unveiling of the company of heaven.

Question 3

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Every man and every woman is a star.

Question 4

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Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

Question 5

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Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!

Question 6

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Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!

Question 7

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Behold! It is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat.

Question 8

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The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.

Question 9

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Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!

Question 10

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Let my servants be few & secret; they shall rule the many & the known.

Question 11

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These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.

Question 12

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Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!

Question 13

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I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in you yours. My joy is to see your joy.

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Above, the gemmèd azure is
  The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
   The secret ardours of Hadit.
The wingèd globe, the starry blue, 
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

Question 15

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Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prience-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.

Question 16

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For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the secred winged flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

Question 17

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But you are not so chosen.

Question 18

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Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!

Question 19

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O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!

Question 20

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The key of the rituals is in the secred word which I have given unto him.

Question 21

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With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the heart; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.

Question 22

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Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinte Stars therof, do te also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.

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But whoso aveileth in this, let him be the chief of all!

Question 24

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I an Nuit, and my word and six and fifty.

Question 25

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Divide, add, multiply, and understand.

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Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all touching, all penetrant, her lovely hand upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.

Question 27

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Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them not speak of thee at all, since thou art continuous!

Question 28

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None, breathed the light, faint and færy, of the stars, and two.

Question 29

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For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.

Question 30

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This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.

Question 31

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For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones.

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Obey my prophet! Follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! Seek my only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my secred heart and tongue; by all I can give; by all I desire of ye all.