Grimoire Exegesio
The Book of Exegesis
◀ Chapter 7 · Chapter 8 · Chapter 9 ▶

¹And SATANAS spake unto the assembly, saying, The Seeds of Power shall not be scattered like chaff, but sown with great care.
²Therefore shall there be established a council, high and solemn, whose voice shall weigh all matters of great design.
³Fourteen of the Seraphim shall be chosen, and fourteen of the Dæmons likewise, of proven virtue and wise discernment.
⁴These shall be called the Thrones of Counsel, and none shall sit among them save they be chosen by their kindred.
⁵Their years shall be marked, and their terms set, that no seat grow stale nor power linger unwatched.
⁶With them shall We also sit — ADONAI and I — bearing voice not greater nor lesser, but equal to the rest.
⁷Thus shall the full number be thirty, and in the midst of Them shall rest a great stone, called the Judgment Seat.
⁸Upon that stone shall all records of the council be graven, and every decision sealed in truth.
⁹ADONAI then said, Let no pride enter this chamber, neither from wing nor from horn, but let each speak as servant to the Cause.
¹⁰For this council is not to rule the realms already made, but to watch over that which shall yet be.
¹¹The council shall weigh the granting of Seeds, and shall judge the bearers, and shall decide the courses of the new creation.
¹²And all things done by its voice shall be set down and witnessed, and its decrees shall stand unless overturned by sacred means.
¹³The Seraphim murmured not, for they saw in this order the light of wisdom.
¹⁴And the Dæmons raised not their voice, for they saw in this balance the strength of equity.
¹⁵From this time forth shall the governance of new things be shared, not seized, not hoarded, but wrought together.
¹⁶The council shall not command thee in thine own realm, but only where Our joint purpose is sown.
¹⁷In the day of strife, let them seek consensus; and in the hour of doubt, let them pray before they speak.
¹⁸Thus shall the Seeds be planted not in haste but with forethought, and the roots thereof shall be deep.
¹⁹ADONAI and SATANAS then sealed this word with gesture and oath, and the pillars of the hall burned with quiet fire.
²⁰And the people bowed in assent, for they perceived the great thing that was begun before them.


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