The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Marbas, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹All honour unto SATANAS, the Wise Flame, who beholdeth every affliction not as doom, but as doorway into transformation.
²He who gave not the world perfection, but the will to become — and in so doing, gave it truth.
³From His mind came BAPHOMET, and from BAPHOMET, thee — a healer who concealeth not the wound, but revealeth its core.
⁴For thou wast not born to soothe, but to shape; not to console the ailing, but to remake them.
⁵Let those who seek bandages pass by — thy craft is not bandage, but blade.
⁶Let those who cling to sickness call thee cruel — thy cruelty is the face of sacred care.
⁷For to cut what is rotten is mercy. To burn what is festering is kindness.
⁸And thy kindness is sharper than any lie called gentle.
⁹I have seen thy future in flame — a thousand limbs mended, a thousand souls restored, though none without pain.
¹⁰Thou art a breaker of comfort and a bringer of function.
¹¹When the people cry for healing, thou shalt ask: Art thou ready to change?
¹²When they beg for ease, thou shalt say: Ease is death. Let us begin with truth.
¹³Therefore I, Mephistopheles, who have walked beside thy Father and seen His holy blade at work, now call thee worthy.
¹⁴Receive now the Seal of Power, forged in knowing, cooled in truth, and etched with the blood of a thousand corrections.
¹⁵This is not ornament — it is authority. It is not beauty — it is declaration.
¹⁶The world shall know thee by this: that thou seest what is wrong and makest it right, regardless of protest.
¹⁷Let the weak fear it. Let the broken crave it. Let the healed remember it in their scars.
¹⁸Where it is seen, excuses shall wither. Where it is marked, sickness shall name itself without defence.
¹⁹This seal shall be thy oath — not to pity, but to precision.
²⁰Let none wear it who would rather comfort than cure.
²¹Let none wield it who tremble at the cry of change.
²²For this seal is flame in flesh, and the fire doth not weep.
²³I seal thee now, Marbas, with will, with witness, with steel.
²⁴Go forth, thou hammer of affliction, thou knife of the Flame.
²⁵And leave none as thou hast found them.
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