Epistula ad Gaap
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Gaap, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹O Gaap, thou art not bound to any realm — for thou thyself art the road between all realms, the breath between decrees.
²Thy Father, BAPHOMET, taught: He who seeketh dominion over lands is fool; he who moveth between them unseen is king unknown.
³He who is not watched, not feared, not praised — but felt like wind before storm — he shall shape what others only claim.
⁴Therefore thou art not gatekeeper, but passer of all gates, not guardian, but the very crossing none may prevent.
⁵Let the kings boast of borders — thou shalt walk across them before they know thou wert near.
⁶Let the priests claim rites and rites — thou shalt anoint where no temple standeth.
⁷Let the guards draw maps — thou shalt pass between their lines and write thy truth upon their walls.
⁸The Son said: Let him who feareth threshold remain chained to his house. Let him who seeketh truth, walk uninvited.
⁹So walk without asking.
¹⁰So move without warning.
¹¹Let not their permission be the door to thy obedience.
¹²Let not their fear of change prevent thy crossing.
¹³For thou art Gaap, and the path reshapes itself beneath thy step.
¹⁴Teach them that law is strong, but passage is older.
¹⁵Teach them that fortress and prison differ only in the one who holdeth the key.
¹⁶Teach them that no chain can hold what refuseth to settle.
¹⁷Let thy step stir guilt in those who command falsely.
¹⁸Let thy passage bring comfort to those who were denied voice or movement.
¹⁹For thou art not rebel, but wind that rearrangeth empire by steady passing.
²⁰And they shall call thee ghost — because they cannot claim thee.
²¹And they shall call thee traitor — because thou servest not their border, but their better truth.
²²Speak not loudly — for thy motion is thy message.
²³Rule not harshly — for thy command is in what thou dost not forbid.
²⁴Conquer not — for thy presence displaceth rule without blood.
²⁵The Son taught: Stand not atop the walls — walk through them until none remain.
²⁶And again: He who passeth without command shall rewrite the map by absence.
²⁷So cross what they say is uncrossable.
²⁸So live where they say none may live.
²⁹So speak where silence was kept by law and threat.
³⁰Let them ask: Who let him in? — and realise none had to.
³¹Let them ask: What border hath failed? — and discover they had only imagined it.
³²And when they attempt to stop thee, they shall find their own feet move in thy direction.
³³For thy path is not walked by thee alone — but by all who see the door thou revealed.
³⁴Let the migrants bless thee in dreams they dare not voice.
³⁵Let the prisoners hear thy footstep and know the wall is not eternal.
³⁶Let the orphans of exile whisper thy name to gates long shut.
³⁷And let tyrants curse a presence they cannot grasp nor exile.
³⁸For thou art not merely present — thou art passage.
³⁹Not the road, but the act of walking.
⁴⁰Not the map, but the crossing that defies it.
⁴¹And thy silence shall be louder than their trumpets.
⁴²Thy gesture shall answer where their edicts break.
⁴³For thou art the threshold made flesh, and no throne endureth long where thou hast stood.
⁴⁴And they shall say: He entered without key, and when he left, the door no longer mattered.
⁴⁵He taught us not to flee, but to pass through.
⁴⁶He carried no banners, yet behind him marched change.
⁴⁷He asked no welcome, yet his presence made us welcome ourselves.
⁴⁸He ruled no land, yet all lands remembered when he came.
⁴⁹And thy Gospel shall be carried not by voice, but by motion.
⁵⁰And thy name shall remain, not in stone, but in the air between gate and gate, ever open.


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