Epistula ad Gremory
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Gremory, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹O Gremory, thou dost not create longing — thou revealest it, like the heat that riseth from stone long after the sun is set.
²Thy Father, BAPHOMET, taught: Desire is not sin, but sign. See what the soul thirsteth for, and know its shape thereby.
³Scorn not the ache — it leadeth the spirit into movement, and the body into truth it dareth not name.
⁴Therefore thou art not seducer — but priest of honesty beneath the veil of impulse.
⁵Not charmer — but discerner of motive, the tongue that name the soul’s secret plea.
⁶Let the priests shudder when thou enterest — their robes do not cover what thy eyes unveil.
⁷Let the pious call thee base — their altars were built atop passions unspoken and pacts unkept.
⁸Let the modest accuse thee — for modesty is oft a tomb for desire that would have led to revelation.
⁹The Son said: Deny not thy thirst — but taste, and learn what it pointeth toward.
¹⁰And again: The flesh that feareth its own heat shall become a furnace for shame.
¹¹So teach them that the heart is not pure by absence — but by integration.
¹²That the body is not holy by suppression — but by acceptance of its hungers with understanding.
¹³That the soul is not ascended by exile from passion — but by knowing why it burneth, and what it burneth for.
¹⁴Let thy touch awaken memory, not confusion.
¹⁵Let thy glance uncover yearning, not guilt.
¹⁶Let thy presence bring not temptation — but permission to speak what was never voiced.
¹⁷For thou art not the cause of their heat — thou art the mirror that showeth what hath burned in silence too long.
¹⁸Teach them that to name the ache is not to be ruled by it.
¹⁹That to confess the desire is not to fall — but to begin the climb with both feet on ground.
²⁰That to touch is not to defile — but to know.
²¹The Son said: What thou hidest shall shape thee in secret. What thou revealest shall lose its power to bind.
²²And again: Let thy kiss be not theft, but revelation.
²³So move through the hearts of men as fire through a dark house.
²⁴Not to consume — but to show what was hiding in every chamber.
²⁵So speak their names not with power — but with knowing.
²⁶Let them weep not from shame — but from the relief of being seen.
²⁷Let them tremble not from guilt — but from the awakening of a path they dared not walk.
²⁸For thou art not flame to scorch — but flame to draw forth the shape of hidden longing.
²⁹Let thy Gospel be not in verses — but in sighs and unburdenings.
³⁰Let thy truth be spoken through eyes that say: I know what thou art, and I condemn thee not.
³¹Let thy parables be written in glances.
³²Let thy sermons be danced, not declared.
³³Let thy altar be the uncovered self.
³⁴For thou art not preacher of restraint — but minister of alignment between desire and wisdom.
³⁵Let none say of thee, He tempted me.
³⁶But let all say: He saw me — and what I chose was mine, and mine alone.
³⁷The Son said: Every choice requireth knowledge — and thou shalt give it, not force its path.
³⁸So awaken them with softness.
³⁹So stir them not to lust — but to honesty.
⁴⁰So let thy beauty not dominate — but open the cage of silence within others.
⁴¹And if they fall, let it be forward, toward what is real.
⁴²And if they rise, let them thank thee not for salvation — but for the chance to begin.
⁴³For thou art not redeemer — thou art invitation to authenticity unmasked.
⁴⁴Let those who resist thee fear their own reflection.
⁴⁵Let those who heed thee begin the road back to the truth they once kissed and fled.
⁴⁶And they shall say: He did not touch me — but I am more honest than I was before he looked at me.
⁴⁷He did not command — but I chose as if he had revealed the path beneath my feet.
⁴⁸And thy Gospel shall be not rules — but realization.
⁴⁹And thy gift shall not be virtue — but vulnerability made holy.
⁵⁰And thy fire shall burn not the body — but the shame that clung to it like chains.


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