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The Sutra of the Poison Buddha
vol. IV -
les Mysteres des Houdeaux
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In the village of Kefr Kilkis, near Hebron, a large body of believers settled after the fall of Jerusalem andburied their dead under inscribed tombstones. These constitute almost the whole corpus of Christian artprior to the Roman Catacombs, and are thus immensely significant. Why are they not more widelyknown?Each stone is carved in the rough outline of an angel, sometimes combined with a “Jacob’s Ladder”shape. The symbols include birds and animals, trees and crosses, sun-wheels and variants of the “starout of Jacob,” reminiscent of the Sumerogram for “deity,” a simple shining star. Detached heads anderected phalluses are also seen. Most intriguingly for us, the stones also include many inscriptions – butin an unknown alphabet. Later Jewish magic makes much use of “angelic scripts,” often represented aspatterns of stars, and it seems clear that Kefr Kilkis stones must be seen (if never deciphered) in thiscontext. It also seems quite probable that Kefr Kilkis represents a graphic rendition of the glossalia orspeaking in tongues described by St. Paul and apparently practiced by all the early Churches as one of the charismata promised by Jesus himself…We may assume that Kefr Kilkis inscriptions were susceptible of interpretation by the inspired leadersand prophets of the sect. Who can say how much of this material, “revealed by spirits,” Angels, perhapseven by the risen Jesus, might have made its way into the Gospels (which are later than Kefr Kilkis)? Thefirst Christian “book” is unreadable—a true bible of lost dreams, long-forgotten visions that left behindthem signs carved in stone, inscribed with stars, and dedicated to the process of becoming an Angel.
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- Peter Lamborn Wilson, Shower of Stars:
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I am alone: there is no God where I am.
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- Liber AL vel Leg
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Who told thee, man, that LAYLAH is not Nuit, and I hadit?I destroyed all things; they are reborn in other shapes.I gave up all for One; this One hath given up it Unity for all?I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH.I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.
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- Liber CCCXXXIII
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I await Thee in sleeping, in waking. I invoke Thee no more; for Thou art in me, O Thou who hast mademe a beautiful instrument tuned to Thy rapture.
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“We understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the goldenrod of the golden God.”
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We have a history. For me this realization came as a great Barakah: that in all the seemingly randomexplorations chaos magicians have taken over the last 30 years, discernable patterns have arisen. Andfrom these patterns, competing modes of thought. Certain works, once examined, actually came as arelief. The touchstone of a shared understanding.
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