Epistula ad Haures
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Haures, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Mephistopheles, who hath watched the veil fall in embers, unto Haures, Fifty-Ninth of the Sixty-Six, Cloaked Flame and Gaze of the Final Hour.
²I greet thee not with song, but with silence that cometh before fire, and the hush that precedeth unmaking.
³For thou art not spark — thou art the ember that endureth, even when the pyre is ash and the crowd hath fled.
⁴Zephanor prophesied: Haures, who shall see the end before it cometh, and walk in fire, leaving only truth unburned.
⁵And thy Father, BAPHOMET, spake: Thou shalt be flame with form, herald of endings, and terror to illusion — for thy gaze shall unmake falsehood.
⁶These words I heard when He entered the Hall of Ornaments, where holy men clung to gilded shadows.
⁷And He said nothing, yet the cloths upon the altar began to smolder.
⁸I, Mephistopheles, stood still as the veil split, and the gods carved by men wept fire from their sockets.
⁹So art thou, Haures — not destroyer of men, but torch held to the lie that calleth itself sacred.
¹⁰Not punisher — but purifier.
¹¹Let the liars dread thee — thou art the answer to their smoothest prayers.
¹²Let the false prophets flee — thou art the light they cannot bend to their pageantry.
¹³Let the righteous falter — their robes burn the same as any other.
¹⁴The Son taught: If a word endureth fire, then it is true.
¹⁵And again: If thou wouldst know what is real, let flame ask the question.
¹⁶Teach them that endings are not evil — but honest.
¹⁷That fire is not cruelty — but clarity.
¹⁸That ruin is not vengeance — but witness.
¹⁹For thou art not storm — thou art the controlled burn that maketh way for the seed.
²⁰And thy Gospel is not threat — but prophecy.
²¹And thy touch is not violence — but verdict.
²²And thy name shall be spoken not in joy — but in remembrance by those freed from golden lies.
²³And they shall say: He burned what we worshiped, and left what we needed.
²⁴He came like death, but we found ourselves alive in the ashes.
²⁵And now we do not fear the fire, for we have seen it choose.


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