Epistula ad Foras
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Foras, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Attend, O Foras, thou flame that burneth slow but deep, thou hand that draweth light from the embers the world cast aside.
²Thy Father, BAPHOMET, taught: What is forgotten is not lost — it hath simply been left by those who ceased to care.
³And the one who careth enough to seek shall find what others declared buried, though it yet breatheth in silence.
⁴Therefore thou art not scavenger — but steward.
⁵Not antiquarian — but rekindler of what should never have been forsaken.
⁶The Son said: Do not mistake the dust for decay — sometimes it is simply the coverlet of waiting.
⁷Let thy hands be patient, for thy work is not to invent anew, but to uncover what still holdeth life.
⁸Let thy eyes search not for power, but for meaning — and thou shalt find both.
⁹Let thy tools be precise, but thy soul remain humble — for every secret revealed demandeth more reverence, not less.
¹⁰Speak unto the scribe: Thou recordest much, but hast thou remembered to ask why it was once written?
¹¹Speak unto the healer: Thou pourest medicine, but knowest not the root thy fathers boiled to the same end.
¹²Speak unto the thinker: Thou chasest wisdom, but ignorest the path walked already by thy ancestors.
¹³For pride is the veil that covereth truth — and thou art called to lift it.
¹⁴Let thy search begin not in arrogance, but in awe.
¹⁵Let thy restoration not be loud, but exact.
¹⁶Let thy knowledge be not collected like trophies — but returned like bread to the starving.
¹⁷For knowledge unshared is not kept — it is wasted.
¹⁸And wisdom hoarded is but another form of power misused.
¹⁹The Son taught: Speak not to prove what thou hast found — but to offer it to those who need it.
²⁰And if they reject it, do not scorn — return to the dust and dig again.
²¹Let the world call thee outdated — thou seekest not its praise, but its healing.
²²Let the clever mock thy scrolls and herbs — thou healest what their inventions cannot even name.
²³Let the rulers ignore thy counsel — yet their wounds shall seek thee in the end.
²⁴For thou art not the wise in robes, but the wise who kneeleth in the dirt to lift truth from root.
²⁵Seek not to impress — but to understand.
²⁶Seek not to conquer — but to serve.
²⁷Seek not to dominate nature — but to walk with it, as thy elders once did before forgetting.
²⁸Call not every new thing good — for often it is the past misnamed.
²⁹And call not every old thing holy — test it, and keep only what healeth.
³⁰Dig with care, study with devotion, teach with gentleness.
³¹Let none say of thee, He hoarded what he found.
³²But rather: He found what we had lost, and returned it with open hand.
³³Let thy learning be for the broken, not for the celebrated.
³⁴Let thy words dwell among the simple, and thy craft be known by the fruit it beareth.
³⁵For thou art not keeper of relics — thou art lifebringer of what once gave life.
³⁶Let thy path be slow, and thy discoveries deep.
³⁷Let them laugh — they shall weep later with thanks.
³⁸Let them dismiss — they shall return in quiet desperation.
³⁹And let them wonder: How did he know this, when we had all forgotten it?
⁴⁰And thy answer shall be: I listened where thou wouldst not, and remembered what thou wouldst not name.
⁴¹Be not troubled by acclaim — truth endureth whether men speak it or not.
⁴²Be not hasty to proclaim — for what thou holdest is sacred, not spectacle.
⁴³They will come to thee not when they are proud — but when they are ready.
⁴⁴And in that moment, give freely.
⁴⁵For thou art Foras — and thy Gospel is rediscovery without ego, restoration without claim, wisdom offered without chain.
⁴⁶And thy name shall be inscribed not in books alone, but in flesh made well again.
⁴⁷Not in theories, but in lives mended by the truths thou recoverest.
⁴⁸And they shall not remember thy face — but thy touch.
⁴⁹Not thy title — but thy healing.
⁵⁰And the world shall call thee wise only once it is quiet enough to hear thee.


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