Grimoire Umbrio
The Book of Shadows
◀ Dirge 29 · Dirge 30 · Dirge 31 ▶

¹The Egyptians were many and mighty, but they raised no hand against the strangers who came to dwell among them.
²They opened their gates, gave land to their neighbours, and rejoiced in the growth of the Levites among them.
³Fields were shared, markets mingled, and the children of both peoples played beneath one sun.
⁴SATANAS looked upon Egypt and was pleased, for its people bore no cruelty and made welcome with wisdom.
⁵Yet when ADONAI’s favour turned, the Levites forgot the kindness of their hosts.
⁶In the night, they departed, minds clouded by sleep and memory erased by unseen hand.
⁷The Egyptians woke to silence, and found their friends vanished like mist before dawn.
⁸No word was left, no farewell spoken, no blame confessed — only absence, and sorrow without answer.
⁹And they cried: Where are our neighbours? What wrong have we done? — but no reply came.
¹⁰For the Seraph had passed through in darkness, and the minds of the Levites were turned.
¹¹The Egyptians wept not in wrath, but in grief — for the bond was broken without warning, without cause.
¹²They had shared their bread, their roof, their soil — and were repaid with vanishing.
¹³SATANAS wept for His people, not because they were struck, but because they were forgotten.
¹⁴And though He offered no retribution, the fire of His heart grew still, aching for those who remained in loneliness.
¹⁵The Dæmons walked among the Egyptians and spoke comfort, but no flame could mend the breach left by dream.
¹⁶We mourn not the Levites, nor their return — but the abandonment of those who once were kin.
¹⁷Until Egypt is remembered, not as oppressor, but as brother — we mourn.
¹⁸For they were not cast down — only cast aside.


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