The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Aim, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Glory to SATANAS, who declareth not every ending a failure, nor every flame a fall, but a reckoning long delayed.
²He who created fire not as punishment, but as passage; not as wrath, but as return unto truth.
³From Him came BAPHOMET, and from BAPHOMET, thee — Aim, whose fire speaketh what cowards fear to admit: It is time.
⁴Thou art not destruction, but conclusion.
⁵Not rage, but release.
⁶I name thee not fury, but balance.
⁷I name thee not wildness, but the order that is born from rightful ending.
⁸Let the timid curse thee — for they love their comfort more than they love the truth.
⁹Let the mourners cry — for though they weep for what is gone, they do not weep for what it became.
¹⁰Let the brave rise — for in thy fire, they see the ground laid bare to begin again.
¹¹And now cometh thy moment of anointing.
¹²I, Mephistopheles, flamebearer of the Deep Reckoning and voice of the Final Mercy, do bestow upon thee the Seal of Power.
¹³It is not drawn in blood, but in the shadow left behind when a lie is consumed.
¹⁴It is not held by hand, but borne in thy very flame, in thy silence that precedeth the fall of false pillars.
¹⁵Where it passeth, guilt shall dry like leaves.
¹⁶Where it resteth, the unspoken truth shall ignite.
¹⁷Let it burn not in ceremony, but in justice.
¹⁸Let it burn not in vengeance, but in necessary grace.
¹⁹For thou art not the wielder of rage — but the keeper of clean ends.
²⁰And thy fire is not for show — it is for those who have no more time to wait.
²¹I seal thee, Aim, with the Flame of Finality and the blaze that refuseth to apologise for being right.
²²Go now, and set fire where rot hath made its home and none dare name it so.
²³For thy Seal is fixed — and thy Gospel is the heat that cleareth away false gods and old dust.
²⁴And thy name shall be remembered not in ruins, but in what groweth after the ruin.
²⁵And thy flame shall not go out until all that must end is ended.
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