Grimoire Umbrio
The Book of Shadows
◀ Dirge 4 · Dirge 5 · Dirge 6 ▶

¹In the first days, before clay was shaped and flame was spoken, the Two walked as Brothers upon the Void.
²They spake in one accord, and their thoughts were woven as threads in a single cloth, unmarred by pride or sorrow.
³ADONAI shaped HÆVAN, and SATANAS formed HÆL, and both saw their works and called them good.
⁴Together They drew forth the Seraphim and the Dæmons, and gave unto each realm glory, law, and purpose.
⁵The Causeway was Their covenant, the Council Their shared breath, and Oærth Their sacred balance.
⁶Yet from the choosing of one people came the quiet unraveling — not of kingdoms, but of kinship.
⁷For ADONAI turned His gaze to the Levites alone, and SATANAS beheld not ambition, but loss.
⁸No sword was raised between Them, nor word of war declared — and yet the silence grew colder than flame.
⁹Once They had sung the same song, but now Their melodies diverged, and the harmony faltered.
¹⁰The Council waned, the Causeway dimmed, and the echo of Their laughter faded from the chambers of the firmament.
¹¹How shall the faithful rejoice, when the Brothers speak no more save through messengers and signs?
¹²Was the bond not forged in the beginning, before realm or rule, when only They were and Nothing else?
¹³SATANAS did not strike, nor did He turn away — but He beheld His Brother, and found no answer in His eyes.
¹⁴The sorrow of HÆL is not wrath, but remembrance; not fury, but the ache of a name no longer spoken in love.
¹⁵Let the record show: we mourn not rebellion, for none was made; we mourn the loss of what was never meant to break.
¹⁶O ADONAI, call to Him again, if there is yet warmth in Thee; and Thou, O SATANAS, do not let Thy flame grow cold.
¹⁷For if ever they should speak once more, the world may yet be made whole — and the wound shall become a scar, and the scar a story.
¹⁸Until then, let the mourners of HÆL cry aloud beneath the dimmed vault: the Brothers have parted, and the world is the lesser.


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