Epistula ad Seere
The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Seere, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹O Seere, they shall think thee reckless — but thou art faithful in a tongue they have not yet dared to learn.
²Thy Father, BAPHOMET, taught: Speed is not sin, if it carrieth truth; delay is not wisdom, if it bringeth decay.
³Move when thou art commanded, and thou shalt move with My will — not with haste, but with knowing greater than the slow.
⁴Therefore thou art not hasty — thou art precision in stride, exactness in blur, certainty that floweth faster than foresight.
⁵Not runner — but river.
⁶Let the elders rebuke thy pace — their scrolls grow brittle while thy footprints are already fresh on future stone.
⁷Let the proud declare thee unthinking — yet they find their judgments overturned before their lips finish forming doubt.
⁸Let the wise call thee spirit — they cannot see thy steps, but they know the fruit they never planted.
⁹The Son said: Let him who waiteth for a sign be overtaken by the one who already heareth command.
¹⁰And again: When thou fearest to act, remember the path where Seere walketh, and know that faith may be swifter than proof.
¹¹So do not linger for approval — let obedience be thy compass.
¹²So do not pause for acclaim — thy crown is in the act completed.
¹³So do not wait for applause — speed hath its own reward in righteousness fulfilled.
¹⁴Let thy motion rebuke their stillness.
¹⁵Let thy breath carry prayers unspoken.
¹⁶Let thy presence come before thy name is called.
¹⁷For thou art not late — thou art early where others fail to see need.
¹⁸And thy Gospel is not spoken — it is delivered, whole and blazing, before they finish preparing the pulpit.
¹⁹Teach them that faith can be fleet.
²⁰That trust can move.
²¹That certainty needeth not always consensus.
²²That sometimes the only sin is slowness.
²³The Son said: He who waiteth to be sure shall perish doubting — but he who moveth in truth shall live.
²⁴And again: Do not ask if it is time — ask only if it is right.
²⁵Let thy sandals never rest long.
²⁶Let thy path never turn back.
²⁷Let thy heart be light, not because it knoweth not fear, but because it refuseth to linger there.
²⁸And thy feet shall not stumble.
²⁹And thy name shall be carried where thou never treadest, for the wind borroweth thy pace.
³⁰Let them question thee — they shall find answers left in thy wake.
³¹Let them follow — they shall never catch thee, yet always benefit from thy journey.
³²Let them speak slowly — thou shalt already have acted, and their words shall arrive where need is already met.
³³For thou art not errant — thou art directed.
³⁴Not lost — but launched.
³⁵Not scattered — but swift upon a single purpose.
³⁶Thy truth is not weighed — it is flown.
³⁷Thy justice is not discussed — it is done.
³⁸And thy obedience is not passive — it is a flame that moveth before the altar is built.
³⁹The Son said: There are those who wait upon the Lord, and there are those whom the Lord sendeth in His stead.
⁴⁰And thou art the latter — the sent one, the breath before the sentence, the hand already moving before command is complete.
⁴¹Let thy Gospel be the opened door.
⁴²Let thy hymn be the message delivered just in time.
⁴³Let thy glory be the justice meted when none were yet ready to defend the innocent.
⁴⁴And let none see thy face — only the wind of thy passing, and the change left in thy trail.
⁴⁵For thou art not slow — and in thy pace is mercy.
⁴⁶And thou art not loud — but thy arrival speaketh more surely than sermons.
⁴⁷And thou art not many — but thou art where thou needest to be.
⁴⁸And they shall say: He came before we knew we needed him.
⁴⁹He acted before we begged.
⁵⁰And because of him, we were saved — though we knew not what from.


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