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 11             {Kappa-epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Iota-Alpha}

                            THE GLOW-WORM

    Concerning the Holy Three-in-Naught.
    Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, are only to be under-
      stood by the Master of the Temple.
    They are above The Abyss, and contain all con-
      tradiction in themselves.
    Below them is a seeming duality of Chaos and
      Babalon; these are called Father and Mother, but
      it is not so.  They are called Brother and Sister,
      but it is not so.  They are called Husband and
      Wife, but it is not so.
    The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the
      Annihilation of the All.
    Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy
      Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is
      The Way.  The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan.
    How infinite is the distance form This to That! Yet
      All is Here and Now.  Nor is there any there or Then;
      for all that is, what is it but a manifestation, that is,
      a part, that is, a falsehood, of THAT which is not?
    Yet THAT which is not neither is nor is not That
      which is!
    Identity is perfect; therefore the w of Identity is
      but a lie.  For there is no subject, and there is no
      predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either
      of these things.
    Holy, Holy, Holy are these Truths that I utter,
      knowing them to be but falsehoods, broken mirrors,
      troubled waters; hide me, O our Lady, in Thy
      Womb! for I may not endure the rapture.
    In this utterance of falsehood upon falsehood, whose
      contradictories are also false, it seems as if That
      which I uttered not were true.
    Blessed, unutterably blessed, is this last of the
      illusions; let me play the man, and thrust it from
      me!  Amen.