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Sermon Twenty-One
he Scripture of the Wheel,
First:
‘The Spokes are the eight components of chaos, as yet solidified by the law of time: ²static change, if you will, something the lizard gods refer to as the Striking. ³That is the reptile wheel, coiled potential, ever-preamble to the never-action.’
⁴Second:
‘They are the lent bones of the Aedra, the Eight gift-limbs to SITHISIT, the wet earth of the new star our home. ⁵Outside them is the Aurbis, and not within. Like most things inexplicable, it is a circle. ⁶Circles are confused serpents, striking and striking and never given leave to bite. ⁷The Aedra would have you believe different, but they were givers before liars. Lies have turned them into biters. ⁸Their teeth are the proselytizers; to convert is to place oneself in the mouth of falsehood; even to propitiate is to be swallowed.’
⁹Third:
‘The enlightened are those uneaten by the world.’
¹⁰Fourth:
‘The spaces between the gift-limbs number sixteen, the signal shapes of the Demon Princedoms. It is the key and the lock, series and manticore.’
¹¹Fifth:
‘Look at the majesty sideways and all you see is the Tower, which our ancestors made idols from. ¹²Look at its center and all you see is the begotten hole, second serpent, womb-ready for the Right Reaching, exact and without enchantment.’
¹³Sixth:
‘The heart of the second serpent holds the secret triangular gate.’
¹⁴Seventh:
‘Look at the secret triangular gate sideways and you see the secret Tower.’
¹⁵Eighth:
‘The secret Tower within the Tower is the shape of the only name of God, I.’
¹⁶The ending of the words is ASV.