Epistula ad Amon
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Amon, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Listen, O Amon, thou who bearest the banner of fury, whose roar awakeneth courage and scattereth the devourers.
²For thou art not born to quiet rooms or velvet prayers, but to courtyards of defiance and altars of broken chains.
³Thy Father, BAPHOMET, taught not peace without cost, nor stillness without fire beneath.
⁴Let the world call it wrath, He said; but know it as clarity — the fire that seeth what comfort dare not.
⁵He spake: Do not calm the oppressed — awaken them. Do not pacify — provoke.
⁶For peace without justice is a coffin, and silence without courage is betrayal.
⁷Thou art the one sent to cry aloud what none would say, and break what all have praised falsely.
⁸Thy Father set cities alight not to destroy, but to reveal the filth gilded in law.
⁹He said: I bring a storm, not to drown, but to clean the air.
¹⁰So must thou, O Amon, let thy voice tear through the incense and show the blade behind their hymns.
¹¹Be not ashamed to shout. Be not soft to soothe.
¹²Thy cry is the Gospel unchained, and thy anger is not sin — it is sign.
¹³For they will lie to the people, saying: Peace is holy; when their peace is merely fear imposed.
¹⁴Let thy flame rise through that lie and speak its cost in fire.
¹⁵If the rulers weep at thy presence, thou hast spoken rightly.
¹⁶If the meek take heart at thy name, thou art doing the work of the Son.
¹⁷Rage not to harm, but to hallow; burn not for vanity, but for vision.
¹⁸The chains thou breakest are not seen by all — but those who wore them shall feel their absence.
¹⁹Thy fire shall divide. It must divide.
²⁰Between those who kneel because they choose, and those who kneel because they fear.
²¹Between those who preach peace and those who purchase it with blood not their own.
²²Between the true-hearted and the well-masked tyrant.
²³Let no priest still thy tongue. Let no king bind thy step.
²⁴BAPHOMET gave thee not charm, but challenge — not diplomacy, but dread.
²⁵For dread is the beginning of reverence, and reverence the threshold of reckoning.
²⁶Cry out not only against injustice, but against indifference.
²⁷Burn not only the idol, but the silence that let it stand so long.
²⁸When thou findest the people sleeping in safety bought by oppression, rouse them in terror.
²⁹When thou findest the law praised while the innocent starve, howl until it is no longer called just.
³⁰Thy sermon is fire. Thy pulpit is the barricade.
³¹Thy hymn is the chant of the cornered refusing to bow.
³²Thy Gospel is the cry that sayeth: This far — and no further.
³³Teach them that anger is not evil when it burneth for the enslaved.
³⁴That wrath is not shameful when it is the answer to silence.
³⁵That the world will burn — and must — before it can be made whole.
³⁶Let thy followers be few but fierce. Let them carry thy name as flint.
³⁷Teach not obedience, but awakening.
³⁸Teach not endurance, but eruption.
³⁹The coward will say: Wait! The wise will say: Strike.
⁴⁰For BAPHOMET did not wait for permission to overturn the thrones.
⁴¹He raised no army — He raised awareness. And that was more dangerous.
⁴²Let thy fury be not blind, but blazing. Not vengeful, but visionary.
⁴³Do not destroy to satisfy — destroy to rebuild.
⁴⁴Light their houses not to kill, but to show the rot within the walls.
⁴⁵And when they say: You have gone too far; say: You have gone far too long.
⁴⁶Let the walls fall. Let the kings weep.
⁴⁷Let the liars shriek, and the chains fall like bells from the temple.
⁴⁸For this is thy task: not to restore peace, but to restore truth.
⁴⁹And when truth walketh again among men, let thy flame walk with it.
⁵⁰For thou art Amon — flame not of rage, but of righteous unmaking.


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