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The Wishing Well -or - Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos
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by Frater Choronzon
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The general function of a Wishing Well is understood from an early
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age by most people. The user projects some required outcome of
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events, or "wish" into the well, perhaps accompanied by a symbolic
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financial donation, and waits for events to take their course.
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Similar properties are attributed in popular tradition to acts of
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cutting a birthday cake and breaking a wish-bone while devouting
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certain species of poultry.
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In every sense, the act of making a wish using any of the above
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ritual props is a magical operation though experience suggest that
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Wells tend to be more effective than both chicken bones and all but
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the most esoterically decorated cakes in achieving the intended
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result.
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As of late, many Wishing Wells have been withdrawn from public
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access; and, moreover, recent opinion polls have indicated high
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levels of dissatisfaction with the scarcity of wish-fulfillment
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opportunities, particularly among vegetarians. This paper attempts
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some analysis of the dynamics involved in successful wish-making,
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and offers a ritual procedure which readers may find useful pending
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the launch of another "Wishing Well Withdrawal" from the public eye.
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Anyone who has studied non-linear dynamics (or Chaos Mathematics) as
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applied to the interaction of complex systems (for instance life-in-
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general) will be aware of the extreme sensivity of such systems to
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initial conditions. This is illustrated by the so called Butterfly
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Effect; a model of the process by which a butterfly flapping its
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wings on the Carribean Islands can set in train a series of
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atmospheric interactions which may culminate, after some elapsed
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time, in the occurence of a hurricane in London.
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The hypothesis in this context is that the ritual act of making a
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wish sets up initial conditions for a Chao/dynamic process which
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culminates, after some elapse time, in the occurrence of whatever
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event was the original objective of the wish; hence the subtitle
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"Releasing the Butterfly of Chaos". Atmospheric effects are often
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synchronous with successful magickal operations as was observed, for
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example, by those who were present for (or within earshot of) the
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4,000 watt "Enochian Verse Recital" in South London, 17.30 Hrs,
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Monday, 28 May, 1990; but where magic is concerned the atmospherics
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are felt to be little more than by-products of casual sequence which
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is primarily electromagnetic in character.
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The actual process by which a successful wish is transformed into
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its outcome is, of course, magic; at least in the sense that modern
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TV receiver might be acknowledged as such by Agrippa or Abra-Melin
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the Mage - Was there ever a more effective acrostic "for divers
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visions" than an infrared remote control?
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A detailed explanation of how the magical process appears to work
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would fill a book (reasonable offers from reputable publishers
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accepted); suffice it to say that no rewrite of either the Laws of
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Physics or the Axioms of Mathematics is required, and to mention
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that the Astrological elements of the hypothesis will form the
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substance of a paper to be presented to a forth coming meeting of
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the "Talking Stick".
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For the purpose of this exercise, the process may be appropriately
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visualized by consideration of nothing more complicated than a
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humble smoke-ring. In mathematical terms this is a Torus (a ring-
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doughnut shaped structure) which has a clearly defined, coherent and
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self-contained existence for an extended period within a
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fundamentally chaotic matrix; ie. it can hung around for several
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seconds retaining its structure in the turbulent air of a
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smoke-filled room. Such ordered structures fall quite naturally out
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of the Chaos Mathematics which models the behavior of gases and
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liquids (Fluid Dynamics for the technically inclined). Examples of
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such ordered structures in a chaotic environment abound, and not
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only on this planet. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, for instance,
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has been in existence at least since Galileo observed it in 1610,
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though the chaotic nature of that planets atmosphere was not
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appreciated until the flypast of the Voyager spacecraft of 1979.
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A perfect smoke-ring requires very little expenditure of energy to
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be brought into existence, though that energy, in the form of a
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controlled pulse of gas projected from its creator lips has to be
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quite precise - ie. smoke-rings don`t always work, particular if
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someone is watching, and the best ones of all usually happen quite
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by accident! Significantly, the only way an observer can know if a
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smoke-ring is there because it has smoke in it. If an identical
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pulse of gas is projected from a non-smoker, the Toroidal ring
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structure will be established in the just the same way within the
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atmosphere, but its presence is almost impossible to detect, even
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with the most sophisticated of scientific instruments.
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The atmosphere is not the only chao/dynamic envelope surrounding our
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planet; there also exists the magnetosphere, which we perceive at
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ground level as the earths magnetic field. At present it exerts a
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force which causes a compass needle to point approximately towards
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the North Pole.
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The magnetosphere extends out into so-called empty space well beyond
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the atmosphere of the planet, and is anything but static in
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character. Complete polarity reversals can occur. A record of these
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is preserved in the sequence of North and South oriented volcanic
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rocks which have been mapped in the ocean floor extending outwards
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from mid-oceanic ridges, such as that which runs the lenght of the
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Atlantic. The magnetosphere exhibits its own "weather" patterns
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which, like the atmospheric weather, are driven primilarily by
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radiation from the Sun/Solar Winds. Magnetic and electric storms
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which affect TV and radio reception are a phenomena of
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magnetospheric weather, and interaction between the magnetosphere
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and the atmosphere can result in phenomena such as the Aurora
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Borealis or Northern Lights. Other manifestations include ball-
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lightning and St. Elmo`s fire.
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The ritual procedure put forward here postulates a process whereby a
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sudden pulse of electro-chemical energy, through an operators
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nervous system, establishes a magnetic structure which is the
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mathematical equivalent of a smoke-ring. It is suggested that this
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can occur on the onset of orgasm or accompanying a powerful
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martial-arts styled shout or KIAI, by a process akin to that of the
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Faraday Induction described in any half-decent textbook. The
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"magical" part of the process involves injecting a
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flash-visualisation of the eventual desired outcome of the magneto-
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smoke-ring as it is being established. The rest of the process of
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wish fulfillment is left to the wondrous dynamics of Chaos. It may
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be helpful for the operator to face towards the geographical
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(magnetic) North Pole.
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If performed as a solo working, this ritual may usefully be preceded
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by a banishing and visualisation exercise. The ritual text is
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written in the Enochian language of the angelic calls which were
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devised or discovered by Dr. John Dee in the 16th Century. In the
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sense that Enochian can be seen as a system of control (or cyber-)
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language for "life, the universe, and everything" it has many of the
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characteristics of a computer programming language. Among such
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properties would be those of recursive self-reference (ie. the
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ability to modify itself), and some of the phraseology of the
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preamble to the ritual is designed to apply ideas developed by
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Douglas Hoffstadter in his book Godel, Escher, Bach to the Enochian
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language. Specifically, the text of the ritual should increase its
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own potency with repetition.
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After the Enochian preamble, the participant(s) should make a
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vocalized statement of a "wish" or willed endpoint for the working,
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at the same time strongly visualizing the desired outcome. This
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"wish" may be of a benefic or malefic intent, but beware! the
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Enochian preamble carries a force of personal honor, in wishes of a
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dishonorable character they are likely to backfire.
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The pre-climatic mantrum "Zarzas Zarzas Nasatanata Zarzas" is held
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to be untranslatable. It is, by tradition, a formula which opens the
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Gates of Hell or the Abyss; in this context it is used to invoke the
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dynamic process of Chaos by which the wish can be fulfilled. Some
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occult authorities, Crowley among them, assert that the Zarzas
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formula is dangerous and advise against using it. Modern Chaos
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magicians do not share that view and, besides having employed it for
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years with no particular ills impacting the user, is consistently
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been found to enhance the effectiveness of most categories of
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magical working.
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The final climatic KIAI may be shout such as that projected by a
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martial arts practioner in the process of shattering a concrete
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block (or someone`s sternum), or else an exaggerated cry of orgasmic
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ecstasy. Prospective participants with orgiastic inclinations may
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care to experiment with variant techniques to effect the final KIAI
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exclamation which sets the magical "butterfly effect" process in
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motion. For example, the Enochian couplet following the statement of
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the wish might be committed to memory by operator of either gender,
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and repeated while other participants stimulate that operator to a
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frenzied pitch of ecstasy, culminating in the final KIAI. Such
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variants are for the more experimentaly inclined, but it is the sort
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of experiments which magicians of an unhibited frame of mind (or
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body) may find it enjoyable to carry out as an end in itself. Any
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feedback on results would be welcome!
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...continued by ritual text...
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Ritual text / Enochian Invocation:
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COMSELH I P MALPURG DSI
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The circle with eight fiery darts which is
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DRILPA EMETGIS DE CHAOS
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the great seal of chaos
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AS IOADAF DE TOL GLO
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was in the of all things.
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beginning
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T I TA HUBAR BLIOR
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It is as a continual of comfort
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burning lamp
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NONCA GMICALZOMA CRIP I CORAXO
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to you of power & but is as thunders of judgement
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understanding & wrath
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CIAOFI DE PAR AG IAIADIX
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to the of them of no honor
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terror
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SOLPHETH BIEN:
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hearken to my voice:
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VOMSARG IADNAMAD GOHULIM:
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unto every one of you of undefiled knowledge it is said:
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"OI EMETGIS LONSHI OVOF SA
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"This seal of power may be in
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magnfied
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MIAN I SAPAH DE OI
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continuancewith the mighty of this
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sounds
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LU IA HE BAHAL"
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song of honor cried with a loud voice"
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VLCININ DS I ZA ZAZ
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Happy is s/he who has framed
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ANGELGARD MANIN PRGE
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thoughts in the mind with the fire
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ANANAEL PI
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of this secret wisdom, s/he
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I VGEG T CAPMIALI FISIS
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is become also successively to execute
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strong
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BUTMONA ATH OD AMMA EMNA:
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By mouth the works and curses herein:
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>> MAKE YOUR WISH HERE <<
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SA CHAOS ANGELGARD HARG
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Into chaos the thoughts are planted
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OD IONAS AZIAGIAR.
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and they will become like unto the harvest
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ZARZAS ZARZAS NASATANATA ZARZAS
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!!! KIAI !!!
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---
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* Origin: ChaosBox: Nothing is true -> all is permitted... (2:243/2)
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