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u80ici1.11hLiber 10
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1. I behold a small dark orb, wheeling in an abyss of infinite space. It
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is minute among a myriad vast ones, dark amid a myriad bright ones.
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2. I who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright
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and the dark, have mitigated the brilliance of mine unutterable splendour,
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sending forth V.V.V.V.V. as a ray of my light, as a messenger unto that small
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dark orb.
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3. Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth:
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4. Men and women of the Earth, to you am I come from the Ages beyond the
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Ages, from the Space beyond your vision; and I bring to you these words.
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5. But they heard him not, for they were not ready to receive them.
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6. But certain men heard and understood, and through them shall this
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Knowledge be made known.
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7. The least therefore of them, the servant of them all, writeth this book.
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8. He writeth for them that are ready. Thus is it known if one be ready,
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if he be endowed with certain gifts, if he be fitted by birth, or by wealth,
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or by intelligence, or by some other manifest sign. And the servants of the
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master by his insight shall judge of these.
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9. This Knowledge is not for all men; few indeed are called, but of these
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few many are chosen.
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10. This is the nature of the Work.
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11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life upon this earth. In
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all of these is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from
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old age and from death?
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12. We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life
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intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them.
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13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants of
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V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto.
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14. It is impossible to tell you of the splendours of that to which they have
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attained.
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Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you
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the ineffable glory of the Path of the Adepts, and its nameless goal.
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15. Even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to sight of his friends
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in the valley, so must the adept seem. They shall say: He is lost in the
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clouds. But he shall rejoice in the sunlight above them, and come to the
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eternal snows.
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16. Or as a scholar may learn some secret language of the ancients, his
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friends shall say: << Look! he pretends to read this book. But it is
unintelligible it is nonsense. >> Yet he delights in the Odyssey, while they
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read vain and vulgar things.
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17. We shall bring you to Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss.
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18. Many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words
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have been perverted by their successors, and again and again the Veil has
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fallen upon the Holy of Holies.
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19. To you who yet wander in the Court of the Profane we cannot yet reveal
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all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but
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symbols and veils of the Absolute Truth. So also are the philosophies. To
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the adept, seeing all these things from above, there seems nothing to choose
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between Buddha and Mohammed, between Atheism and Theism.
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20. The many change and pass; the one remains. Even as wood and coal and
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iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of
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transcendent heat; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the
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zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are
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consumed in the One Knowledge.
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21. Nevertheless, as a fire cannot be started with iron alone, in the
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beginning one system may be suited for one seeker, another for another.
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22. We therefore who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into
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the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path which is best suited to his
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nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life
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which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.
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22. We therefore who are without the chains of ignorance, look closely into
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the heart of the seeker and lead him by the path with is best suited to his
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nature unto the ultimate end of all things, the supreme realization, the Life
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which abideth in Light, yea, the Life which abideth in Light.
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