Grimoire Exegesio
The Book of Exegesis
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¹And the council was gathered in the Hall of Consideration, beneath the twin banners of flame and shadow, to begin the shaping.
²Thirty thrones were set round about the Judgment Stone, and each councillor sat in solemn dread of the work before them.
³For to frame a world is a mighty labour, and no voice was lifted in haste, neither did any speak without cause.
⁴And the days became months, and the months became years, and yet they ceased not from their deliberations.
⁵Each measure was weighed, each choice debated, for they desired that the world be founded in wisdom and order.
⁶ADONAI opened the book of firmament, and spake of the heights of the mountains, how they should pierce the sky.
⁷And SATANAS unrolled the scroll of depths, and taught of the caverns and oceans, and the secret paths beneath the deep.
⁸The Seraphim called for light, and spoke of dawns that should cleanse the dark; and the Dæmons called for shadow, to shelter the weak.
⁹So were the poles established, and the march of day and night appointed, each yielding to the other in due time.
¹⁰And the number of days in a turning was fixed, and the length of a night, and the season when rains should fall.
¹¹The sun was given its course, and the moon her dance; and the stars were ordered, that time might be told thereby.
¹²The a Seraph councillor spake of wind, and how it should circle the globe in unseen paths, to cool and to quicken.
¹³And a Dæmon councillor declared the nature of fire, to consume and to purify, and to guard the hearth.
¹⁴Then came the matter of water, and three weeks passed ere they set its bounds, that rivers should not break the land.
¹⁵And they decreed that the sea should cover part, but not all; and that land should rise in peaks, and fall in valleys.
¹⁶The roots of the land were drawn by measure, and the crust marked with seam and fracture, that it might live and shift.
¹⁷Next were the plants imagined, each by its kind, from the cedar of the high slopes to the moss of the damp rock.
¹⁸And they spoke of the vines that creep, and the grasses that bow, and the fruit that should hang heavy on the branch.
¹⁹The breadth of the forest was set, and the edge of the desert, and the place where snow should lie unmelted.
²⁰Then came the birds, and a Seraph councillor drew with light the shape of the eagle, and the arc of its flight.
²¹The a Dæmon councillor brought forth the bat, and its kin, who take to the night and speak in secret sound.
²²The wingspan of the eagle was measured, and the speed of the swallow, and the cry of the crane in the dusk.
²³And the beasts of the field were conceived, and the bull was set for strength, and the deer for swiftness, and the fox for cunning.
²⁴The lion was given pride, and the wolf fellowship, and the hound loyalty; the serpent was granted silence and patience.
²⁵Then did the councillors speak of colour, and the shape of leaves, and the scent of flowers, and the pattern of stones.
²⁶For nothing was to be by chance, but all fashioned by will, that harmony should dwell even in the least.
²⁷And a hundred years passed as one, and the labour was not tiresome to them, for the work was joy and the cause was glory.
²⁸Then did the council rise from their seats, and the Judgment Stone was marked with the Seal of Agreement, and all was ready.


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