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(el)u80ici1.11h59.  And I answered and said: It is done even according unto Thy word.  And it was done.  And they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of Barren Words.  And they that sealed up the book into their blood were the chosen of Adonai, and the Thought of Adonai was a Word and a Deed; and they abode in the Land that the far-off travellers call Naught.

60.  O land beyond honey and spice and all perfection!  I will dwell therein with my Lord for ever.

61.  And the Lord Adonai delighteth in me, and I bear the Cup of His gladness unto the weary ones of the old grey land.

62.  They that drink thereof are smitten of disease; the abomination hath hold upon them, and their torment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode.

63.  But the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even as my Lord, my beautiful, my desirable one.  There is no wine like unto this wine.

64.  They are gathered together into a glowing heart, as Ra that gathereth his clouds about Him at eventide into a molten sea of Joy; and the snake that is the crown of Ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses.

65.  So also is the end of the book, and the Lord Adonai is about it on all sides like a Thunderbolt, and a Pylon, and a Snake, and a Phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like the Woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps.

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