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0. O my God! One is Thy Beginning! One is Thy Spirit, and Thy Permutation One!

1. Let me extol Thy perfections before men.

2. In the Image of a Sixfold Star that flameth across the Vault inane, let me re-veil Thy perfections.

3. Thou hast appeared unto me as an aged God, a venerable God, the Lord of Time, bearing a sharp sickle.

4. Thou hast appeared unto me as a jocund and ruddy God,full of Majesty, a King, a Father in his prime. Thou didst bear the sceptre of the Universe, crowned with the Wheel of the Spirit.

5. Thou hast appeared unto me with sword and spear, a warrior God in flaming armour among Thine horsemen.

6. Thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant God, a god of music and beauty, even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre.

7. Thou hast appeared unto me as the white foam of Ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold.

8. Thou hast appeared to me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with Thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff.

9. Thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among Thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste, as a moon among the faded oaks of the wood of years.

10. But I was deceived by none of these. All these I cast aside, crying: Begone! So that all these faded from my vision.

11. Also I welded together the Flaming Star and the Sixfold Star in the forge of my soul, and behold! a new star 418 that is above all these.

12. Yet even so was I not deceived; for the crown hath twelve rays.

13. And these twelve rays are one.