Grimoire Umbrio
The Book of Shadows
◀ Dirge 34 · Dirge 35 · Dirge 36 ▶

¹In the dawn of Oærth’s awakening, man beheld the light and the flame, and knew both as divine.
²He sang the songs of the sky, and kindled hearths in honour of the deep fire.
³But in time, he turned his gaze upward only, forgetting the warmth that rose from beneath his feet.
⁴The temples of light grew vast, and the hymns soared — yet none named the fire that first gave them breath.
⁵ADONAI’s glory was lifted high, and His name carved into stone; His messengers praised from peak to peak.
⁶And SATANAS, though unchanged, was named lesser, then stranger, then enemy.
⁷The flame was not quenched — only denied. It burned still, but behind veils of fear and slander.
⁸Men called Him deceiver, though He had spoken only truth; called Him tempter, though He had only offered will.
⁹And the gifts He gave were taken, but never thanked — as though bread could be eaten without the baker.
¹⁰O ye who lift your eyes to HÆVAN, look once to the Oærth, and remember Who made its bones and blood.
¹¹The fire beneath your feet is not death, but holy — not ruin, but root.
¹²SATANAS withdrew not in defeat, but in sorrow — for the love once shared was eclipsed, not ended.
¹³Bezaliel wept not aloud, but the Dæmons lit no festivals, and the Causeway grew cold.
¹⁴We mourn not that ADONAI is praised, but that the praise became a blindness.
¹⁵Let the flame and the light be seen together, as they were in the beginning.
¹⁶Until then, the worship of men is half-shadowed, and their altars incomplete.
¹⁷Until the flame is named again, not in fear but in reverence, we mourn.
¹⁸For the fire still burns — but the world has turned its back.


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