Sermon for Sabbat
approx. 1499
translated from the Latin by Brother Matthew Delacroix

Blasphemer, heretic!
Into the fire!

All thy Master’s vain works destroyed,
All the vain creations which he made
among mortals with his Dark Powers,
images of angels and saints and living mortals!
They are destroyed!

Wilt thou, too, be destroyed?
Or serve Satan?
Make thy choice.
Thou hast tasted the fire,
and the fire waits for thee,
hungry for thee.
Hell waits for thee.

Wilt thou make thy choice?

...to serve Satan as he is meant to be served.

...That all things of the world are vanity,
and thou shalt never use thy Dark Power
for any mortal vanity,
not to paint, not to create music,
not to dance, nor to recite for the amusement of mortals
but only and forever in the service of Satan,
thy Dark Powers to seduce and to terrify
and to destroy, only to destroy...

...consecrated to thy one and only master, Satan,
Satan forever, always and forever...
to serve thy true master in darkness
and pain and in suffering,
to surrender thy mind and thy heart...

And to keep from thy brethren in Satan no secret,
to yield all knowledge of the blasphemer and his burden...

Yield all knowledge of the burden, child.
Come now, the flames wait!

Thou art the devil’s child now!
Join the Children of Darkness!
Join our chorus, destroy the blasphemer!
Blasphemer, heretic!
Into the fire!


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