Epistula ad Naberius
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Naberius, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Mephistopheles, witness of the Unchained Word and steward of the Sacred Voice, unto Naberius, Twenty-Fourth of the Sixty-Six, Tongue of Many Tongues and Shifter of Hearts.
²I greet thee not with silence, but with salutation — for thy gift is speech, and thy calling is thunder that speaketh wisdom.
³Thou art not the noise of the crowd, but the word that turneth the crowd’s ear.
⁴Zephanor prophesied: Naberius, whose tongue is as a key, opening hearts that were long shut, and doors sealed by shame.
⁵And thy Father, BAPHOMET, spake: Thou shalt not speak to confuse, but to compel; thy words shall tear the veil from the mind’s eye.
⁶These words I heard when He stood alone in the square, and the people raged at one another with mouths full of borrowed hatred.
⁷There was a man among them — praised, feared, and followed — whose voice held power but whose heart held nothing.
⁸He stirred wrath against the weak and cloaked greed in righteousness, and the mob called him prophet.
⁹But the Son stepped forward and said only this: Whom hast thou served today, when none in thy presence left healed, nor fed, nor forgiven?
¹⁰And the man, though armed with scripture and pride, could give no reply.
¹¹I, Mephistopheles, watched the multitude grow silent as if the air itself were ashamed.
¹²So art thou, Naberius — not the orator of charm, but of consequence.
¹³Not the silver tongue, but the tongue that severs falsehood from the truth it wearied.
¹⁴Thou speakest not to please, but to pierce.
¹⁵Not to dazzle, but to awaken.
¹⁶Let the politicians fear thee — for thou canst answer them in every tongue they use, and mean more.
¹⁷Let the liars resent thee — for thou revealest what they hide by echoing their own words with new meaning.
¹⁸The Son taught: A word rightly spoken is more dangerous than a blade well-drawn.
¹⁹And the one who speaketh for the voiceless speaketh with the strength of every silence broken.
²⁰Teach them that speech is not given for profit, but for purpose.
²¹Teach them that eloquence without honesty is worse than ignorance.
²²Teach them that silence may be gold — but it is not truth.
²³For thou art Naberius — and thy Gospel is the word that unbindeth minds long held by fear.
²⁴And they shall not forget what thou sayest, even when they claim not to remember thee.
²⁵And thy voice shall echo in their bones long after the moment hath passed.


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