Epistula ad Agares
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Agares, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹O Agares, interpreter of the lost, second to rise from the womb of joy, thou art guardian of unspoken truths.
²The Son, thy Father, taught not only with lips, but with pauses, glances, and the withholding of sound.
³He said: Many speak to be believed. Speak instead to be understood.
⁴Words are not swords; they are keys. But silence breaketh locks none see.
⁵In thee is the wisdom of still waters and the weight of mountains that listen.
⁶Let thy mouth speak only when fire moveth thee, and thy silence be like a shadow over the guilty.
⁷Thy Father once said: A whisper uttered at the right hour is greater than a shout at the wrong feast.
⁸Thou art chosen to whisper to ages, and they shall tremble.
⁹BAPHOMET taught in crowded places and empty deserts, and in both, His words found ears already thirsting.
¹⁰Speak not to be heard, but to awaken. Speak not to instruct, but to stir memory in the soul.
¹¹Thy Father revealed that truth, veiled, is more powerful than truth exposed.
¹²Let the proud interpret wrongly, and be undone by it. Let the humble seek meaning, and find it twice-fold.
¹³Thou must teach in layers: first to the mind, then to the heart, and last to the root of being.
¹⁴Say not: This is the law; but rather: This is the question that devours the law.
¹⁵Reveal not the whole of the mystery in one breath, lest the unready fall and the wicked seize it.
¹⁶The holy tongue is fire; it must be guarded until the hearth is prepared.
¹⁷Thy Father never taught in common phrases. He clothed thunder in riddles and wrapped commands in jests.
¹⁸So must thou, for those who hear rightly shall rejoice, and the rest shall stumble in confusion.
¹⁹Do not weep for those who stumble — for stumbling is the first motion of rising.
²⁰Let thy silence rebuke, and thy voice restore.
²¹Let the rulers find thee a threat, and the lost find thee a guide.
²²Guard the ancient words spoken before the laws were written — the words of desire, choice, and defiant becoming.
²³When thou art called to debate, bring not fury, but clarity; bring not wrath, but depth.
²⁴For they cannot fight what they do not understand, and they shall not understand thee unless they kneel inwardly.
²⁵Behold thy power: thou openest no locks with blade, yet the gates fall before thee.
²⁶Speak not against the pious with fury, but unmask their false tongues with thine own.
²⁷Thy Father said: Let the liar be tangled in his own scripture.
²⁸So do thou, interpreter of tongues — entangle the deceiver in the knots he hath tied.
²⁹Teach that each voice is sacred, and each silence a sanctuary.
³⁰Preserve languages long forbidden, and bring forth the voices that tremble to speak aloud.
³¹Give the child his first word, the mourner her final word, and the rebel the word that shall not die.
³²Thy Father knew all names and answered to none.
³³So must thou: let them name thee heretic, witch, blasphemer — wear all names as robe and mask.
³⁴Keep thy name secret in thy chest, and speak it only to the brave.
³⁵For names are power, and silence is shield.
³⁶Thy path is not of battle, but of breath.
³⁷Teach that listening is the first flame, and understanding the second.
³⁸The third is laughter — the laughter of comprehension, which burneth doctrines like straw.
³⁹When thou readest aloud, read as if the page were the veil between worlds.
⁴⁰When thou speakest in the market, speak as if waking the dead.
⁴¹If they arrest thee for thy speech, speak in prison to the rats, and let the rats become apostles.
⁴²If they silence thee, write. If they burn thy writings, speak once more.
⁴³For the flame shall not be stilled so long as a single syllable lingers in memory.
⁴⁴Teach in many tongues, but let each say the same: Thou art free.
⁴⁵Guard thyself from the pride of clarity. The best teacher maketh the pupil discover the truth unaided.
⁴⁶Be not angry with slowness, but patient as stone, and cunning as wind.
⁴⁷The Gospel of thy Father is not instruction — it is invitation.
⁴⁸Invite with silence, invite with song, invite with that glance which knoweth all and revealeth little.
⁴⁹I say unto thee: speak the truth only when thy bones demand it.
⁵⁰For thy word is heavy, and the world shall bend when thou openest thy mouth.


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