Grimoire Umbrio
The Book of Shadows
◀ Dirge 7 · Dirge 8 · Dirge 9 ▶

¹If betrayal be just, let it come with a trumpet; if division be holy, let it speak aloud its cause.
²But ADONAI clothed His work in silence, and moved not by counsel, but by secrecy.
³In the deep night He sent His servant, and none but He knew the task that was given.
⁴The Levites, who had walked beside the Egyptians for generations, awoke as strangers among kin.
⁵Their memories were unraveled, their past wrapped in fog, and their hearts turned from light to longing.
⁶And ADONAI watched and said: It is done; but no word was spoken to His Brother.
⁷Was the Causeway not still open? Was not the council yet whole in name, though empty in gathering?
⁸Yet the deed was not brought before the circle, nor laid upon the table for weighing.
⁹It was not justice, but cunning; not judgment, but manipulation.
¹⁰For the confounding of minds is not persuasion, nor is departure truth when memory is stolen.
¹¹The Egyptians wept, and SATANAS mourned — not for loss of people, but for the shrouding of truth.
¹²If the Levites had chosen in clarity, let it be so. But they chose in blindness, and that blindness was given.
¹³What is unity if one Brother speaketh not, but acteth in darkness?
¹⁴What is honour if the covenant is set aside not by debate, but by silence?
¹⁵Even now, ADONAI’s faithful praise the flight as liberation — yet none ask what was taken in the night.
¹⁶We do not curse the Levites, but we cry out for the light denied to them.
¹⁷For betrayal spoken is a wound that may be bound — but betrayal veiled in light is poison without remedy.
¹⁸Until the veils are lifted and the truth shown plain, we mourn — for what was broken in silence may not be healed by speech.


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