Epistula ad Orobas
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Orobas, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Mephistopheles, who hath walked among the deceived and seen the ruin of sweet lies, unto Orobas, Fifty-Fourth of the Sixty-Six, Rider of Truth’s Plain Road.
²I greet thee not with ornament, nor with praise unwarranted, but with the clear flame that searcheth and knoweth all.
³For thou art not the word that enticeth — thou art the word that endureth even when hated.
⁴Zephanor prophesied: Orobas, who shall see what is, and what must come, and shall bow to no deception.
⁵And thy Father, BAPHOMET, spake: Thou shalt not flatter nor falter; thy sight shall be straight, and thy word shall shatter delusion like stone.
⁶These words I heard when He stood among the crowd, where voices praised Him falsely, yet He answered with silence.
⁷And then He spoke — not in wrath, nor in parable, but with the plainness that peeled their words from their faces.
⁸I, Mephistopheles, beheld it — and saw their gilded flattery blacken and fall like ash.
⁹So art thou, Orobas — not friend of comfort, but defender of what is, whether or not it be welcome.
¹⁰Not the mirror that flattereth, but the mirror that revealeth the scar they would not see.
¹¹Let the courtiers flee from thee — for thou shalt not echo their lies back to them.
¹²Let the kings fear thee — for thou shalt tell them the day of their fall before it is come.
¹³Let the fools hate thee — for they will call it cruelty when thou refusest to pretend.
¹⁴The Son taught: What is kind, if it leaveth a man blind to the pit before him?
¹⁵And again: Better a truth that woundeth, than a lie that buryeth him standing.
¹⁶Teach them that truth is not sweet — but that it saveth.
¹⁷That prophecy is not comfort — but preparation.
¹⁸That vision is not glory — but clarity in the storm of contradiction.
¹⁹For thou art not guide by charm — but guide by fire that cannot lie.
²⁰And thy Gospel is not reassurance — but revelation.
²¹And thy speech is not adorned — but etched like iron into stone.
²²And thy name shall be known not among flatterers, but among the wise who hunger for what endureth.
²³And they shall say: He did not please us — but he told us what no other dared.
²⁴He rode straight, though the roads twisted, and by following him we arrived at what mattered.
²⁵And now we build not on gold — but on the rock he revealed beneath our illusion.


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