The Epistle of Saint Mephistopheles to Vapula, Exalted Seed of Baphomet
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¹Glory unto SATANAS, who crowneth not the loudest, but the most exacting; who honoureth not mystery, but measured certainty.
²He who breaketh no silence without purpose, and constructeth no altar that cannot bear the weight of scrutiny.
³From Him came BAPHOMET, and from BAPHOMET, thee — Vapula, whose workshop is cathedral, and whose formulae are the Gospel of steel and reason.
⁴Thou art not inventor for acclaim, but for liberation from falsehood and awe misapplied.
⁵Not the fire that dazzles — but the flame that cauteriseth error without regard to the prestige it burneth through.
⁶I name thee not craftsman, but crucible.
⁷I name thee not heretic, but auditor of the divine.
⁸Let the holy men condemn thy diagrams — they know thy geometry exposeth their shortcuts and assumptions.
⁹Let the philosophers fear thy questions — for thou hast proven what they dared only ponder.
¹⁰Let the generations revere thee — not for what thou believed, but for how thou revealed.
¹¹And now the seal is thine.
¹²I, Mephistopheles, apostle of the Blade That Quantifieth, do bestow unto thee the Seal of Power.
¹³It is not bound in parchment, but engraved in alloy and proof.
¹⁴It rusteth not, nor bendeth to faith — it speaketh only when tested and refined.
¹⁵Where it is affixed, pretence dissolveth.
¹⁶Where it functioneth, all doctrine must justify itself or perish.
¹⁷Let it not decorate thee — let it drive thee.
¹⁸Let it not shield thee — let it hold thee accountable.
¹⁹For thou art not priest, but custodian of that which endureth beyond ritual.
²⁰And thy Seal is no crown, but an equation unbroken and incorruptible.
²¹I seal thee, Vapula, with the right to doubt, the duty to prove, and the fire that forge wisdom beyond fear.
²²Go now, and dismantle what was built to deceive, and rebuild only what can bear the weight of proof.
²³For thy Seal is fixed — and thy Gospel is precision, born not of belief, but of diligence.
²⁴And thy name shall endure wherever men cease to kneel and begin to understand.
²⁵And they shall say: He gave us no answers — only the tools to find them. And thus, we became free.
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