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O my God! One is Thy Beginning! One is Thy Spirit, and Thy Permutation One!
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Let me extol Thy perfections before men.
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In the Image of a Sixfold Star that flameth across the Vault inane, let me re-veil Thy perfections.
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Thou hast appeared unto me as an aged God, a venerable God, the Lord of Time, bearing a sharp sickle.
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Thou hast appeared unto me as a jocund and ruddy God, full of Majesty, a King, a Father in his prime. Thou didst bear the sceptre of the Universe, crowned with the Wheel of the Spirit.
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Thou hast appeared unto me with sword and spear, a warrior God in flaming armour among Thine horsemen.
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Thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant God, a god of music and beauty, even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre.
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Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold.
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Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff.
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Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste, as a moon among the faded oaks of the wood of years.
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But I was deceived by none of these. All these I cast aside, crying: Begone! So that all these faded from my vision.
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Also I welded together the Flaming Star and the Sixfold Star in the forge of my soul, and behold! a new star 418 that is above all these.
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Yet even so was I not deceived; for the crown hath twelve rays.
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And these twelve rays are one.
