LIBER CHETH VEL VALLUM ABIEGNI

SVB FIGVRA CLVI

1. This iss the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast.

2. Thou shhalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication.

3. Thou shhalt mingle thy life with the universal life.  Thou shalt keep not back one drop.

4. Then shhall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun.

5. Then shhall the winds gather themselves together, and bear thee up as it were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they shall give it unto the guardians of the abyss.

6. And beccause there is no life therein, the guardians of the abyss shall bid the angels of the winds pass by.  And the angels shall lay thy dust in the City of the Pyramids, and the name thereof shall be no more.

7. Now theerefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal, do thou divest thyself of all thy goods.

8. Thou haast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no desire toward it.

9. Thou haast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady.  Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one.

10. Thou hhast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father.  Let thy foot trample the belly of thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures.

11. For iff thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will.  So that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations.

12. And beehold! if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-with-Us.

13. Yea! vverily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the Truth.  Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou.

14. Then sshall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wanton in the market-place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices.  Also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee.

15. Yet shhalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust.

16. Nor shhall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible.

17. And thhis is the wrath of God, that these things should be thus.

18. And thhis is the grace of God, that these things should be thus.

19. Whereffore I charge you that ye come unto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof.

20. This PPath is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love.

21. And thhe end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known?  It is not known if it be known.

22. Thereffore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning.