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manifestations of the gods, and are, therefore, things which reach beyond you, existing in themselves. No man
hath a spirituality unto himself, or a sexuality unto himself. But he standeth under the law of Spirituality and of
Sexuality. No man, therefore, escapeth these daemons. Ye shall look upon them as daemons, and as a common
task and danger, a common burden which life hath laid upon you. Thus is life for you also a common task and
danger, as are the gods, and first of all terrible Abraxas. Man is weak, therefore is communion indispensable. If
your communion be not under the sign of the Mother, then is it under the sign of the Phallos. No communion
is suffering and sickness. Communion in everything is dismemberment and dissolution. Distinctiveness leadeth
to singleness. Singleness is opposed to communion. But because of man s weakness over against the gods and
daemons and their invincible law is communion needful, not for man s sake, but because of the gods. The gods
force you to communion. As much as they force you, so much is the communion needed, more is evil. In
communion let every man submit to the others, that communion be maintained, for ye need it. In Singleness
the one man shall be superior to the others, that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery. In
communion there shall be continence. In Singleness there shall be prodigality. Communion is depth. Singleness
is height. Right measure in communion purifieth and preserveth. Right measure in Singleness purifieth and
increaseth. Communion giveth us warmth, Singleness giveth us light.
SERMO VI
The daemons of sexuality approacheth our soul as a serpent. It is half-human and appeareth as thought-desire.
The daemon of spirituality descendeth into our soul as the white bird. It is half-human and appeareth as desire-
thought. The Serpent is an earthly soul, half-daemonic, a spirit, and akin to the spirits of the dead. Thus too,
like these, she swarmeth around in the things of earth, making us either fear them or pricking us with
intemperate desires. The Serpent hath a nature like unto woman. She seeketh company of the dead who are
held by the spell of the earth, they who found not the way beyond that leadeth to singleness. The Serpent is a
whore. She wantoneth with the devil and with evil spirits; a mischievous tyrant and tormentor, ever seducing
to evilest company. The White Bird is a half-celestial soul of man. He bideth with the Mother, from time to
time descending. The bird hath a nature like unto man, and is effective thought. He is chaste and solitary, a
messenger of the Mother. He flieth high above earth. He commandeth singleness. He bringeth knowledge from
the distant ones who went before and are perfected. He beareth our word above to the Mother. She
intercedeth, she warneth, but against the gods she hath no power. She is a vessel of the sun. The serpent goeth
below and with her cunning she lameth the phallic daemon, or else goadeth him on. She yieldeth up the too
crafty thoughts of the earthy one, those thoughts which creep through every hole and cleave to all things with
desirousness. The Serpent, doubtless, willeth it not, yet she must be of use to us. She fleeth our grasp, thus
showing us the way, which with our human wits we could not find.
With disdainful glance the dead spake: Cease this talk of gods and daemons and souls. As this hath long been
known to us.
SERMO VII
Yet when night was come the dead again approached with lamentable mien and said: There is yet one matter
we forgot to mention. Teach us about man. Man is a gateway, through which from the outer world of gods,
daemons, and souls ye pass into the inner world; out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and transitory
is man. Already is he behind you, and once again ye find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller of
innermost infinity. At immeasurable distance standeth one single Star in the zenith. This is the one god of this
one man. This is his world, his pleroma, his divinity. In this world is man Abraxas, the creator and destroyer of
his one world.
This Star is the god and the goal of man. This is his one guiding god. In him goeth man to his rest. Toward him
goeth the long journey of the soul after death. In him shineth forth as light all that man bringeth back from the
greater world. To this one god man shall pray. Prayer increaseth the light of the Star. It casteth a bridge over
death. It prepareth life for the smaller world and assuageth the hopeless desires of the greater. When the greater
world waxeth cold, burneth the Star. Between man and his one god there standeth nothing, so long as man can
turn away his eyes from the flaming spectacle of Abraxas. Man here, god there. Weakness and nothingness
here, there eternally creative power. Here nothing but darkness and chilling moisture. There Wholly Sun.
Whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like the smoke above the herdsman s fire, who through the
night kept watch over his flock.
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