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Abbas Diabolus Exorior ex Abyssus

Thy blood and thy flesh - Come, admonish the worldly by earth and too by water

Thy mind and thy spirit - Unlock, unlimit the pathway to Hir by fire and by air

An axis in flux, whorls the hooked crux with the militancy of Mars

An eye in the mind, burning behind- yearns to remind y'of the realignment of the stars

An unearthly wyrm fiercely snarling at the entrance

To the road leading backward t'ward the starry dark

It's venom encountered as lurid plumes of smoke

That billow as dancers, so tortuously tangled

To dance with the Devil and dancing until death

So strange were it's visions; that serpent oracle

And thence I pressed forth; drunk on on this force that welcomed me through gates of iron

And as many beasts; poised t'ward the east- As Wolf and as Serpent and Lion

With hunger and pride beset in my stride and a mask of dark duplicity

The momentum of wyrd thence am I steered and appeared manifesting as strange synchronicities

The snake spake gently from the cerebral abyss

And I lost touch of what was mine or It's

Atavistic madness consumed me

Upon my voyage into selfhood's realm

For days hung by my feet in (the) eldritch tree

Of knowledge, where men die or they foresee

Themselves anew about this road of thorns

Drinking their fill thereof Azoth's well

Partaking of the visions of the Norns

To rise assiduously out of hell

In void did I loom; betwixt tomb and womb yet returned to the strivings of earth

That eye in the mind, though erstwhile blind has opened in visions of sinister rebirth

And now as a Seer, the mission was clear- beyond entanglements of Form

By spear and by sword, by wyrd and by word, the calm 'fore the storm. The serpentine whispers had vanished, the oracle gone

For I had become the snake- prophecising;

There's a sun in the western quadrant rising

Expectant and illuminating the bearer of the scythes

Stone by stone shall the Magi's fortress fall

It's shadow's paroxysm in the guise of a war of all against all