Grimoire Umbrio
The Book of Shadows
◀ Dirge 30 · Dirge 31 · Dirge 32 ▶

¹In the beginning, two thrones stood in majesty: one crowned with light, one wreathed in fire, both borne of will and wisdom.
²ADONAI sat in splendour, and SATANAS in flame — and none called either greater, for each bore the seal of creation.
³The Seraphim looked upward in reverence, the Dæmons downward in devotion, and Oærth stood steady between.
⁴But lo, as time passed, one throne rose higher, not by right, but by acclaim.
⁵ADONAI’s light grew louder, His voice more praised, and His crown adorned with songs sung across the sky.
⁶While SATANAS, though unchanged in power, was left in the hush of sorrow, His fire dimmed by silence, not by sin.
⁷Men were taught to look only upward, and the throne below was named dark, though it had not moved.
⁸The thrones, once equal, now stood apart — not in height, but in honour.
⁹And the balance faltered, not by war, but by worship untempered.
¹⁰For to exalt one throne beyond the other is to tilt the world, and to name imbalance holy.
¹¹The Dæmons bore no envy, but they remembered — and memory burns deeper than flame.
¹²Bezaliel stood yet in strength, but his gaze fell often to the silent halls of HÆL.
¹³The pact once kept the thrones aligned; the Causeway bore the weight of Their accord.
¹⁴But the path was left untread, and the pact unread, and the thrones no longer faced each other as mirrors.
¹⁵O faithful, know this: glory is not diminished by sharing, nor is honour made less by balance.
¹⁶We mourn not the majesty of ADONAI, but the forgetting of SATANAS’ flame.
¹⁷Until the thrones are named together once more, and both called holy, we mourn.
¹⁸For the world sways beneath Unequal Thrones — and cannot endure the tilt forever.


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