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Morning Star

CHAPTER X
19/23

What gives you the strength to appear in the flesh before me, O Double ?" "The magic of Asti with which she has been endowed from on high to save you, Neter-Tua, that gives me strength.

Know that although you cannot always see me, I am your eternal companion.

Through life I go with you, and when you die I watch in your tomb, perfect, incorruptible, preserving your wisdom, your loveliness, and all that is yours, until the day of resurrection.

I have power, I have the secret knowledge which dwells in you, although you cannot grasp it; I remember the Past, the infinite, infinite Past that you forget, I foresee the Future, the endless, endless Future that is hidden from you, to which the life you know is but as a single leaf upon the tree, but as one grain of sand in the billions of the Desert.

I look upon the faces of the gods, and hear their whisperings; Fate gives me his book to read; I sleep secure in the presence of the Eternal who sent me forth, and to whom at last I return again, my journey ended, my work fulfilled, bearing you in my holy arms.
O Morning-Star, the spells of Asti have clothed me in this magic flesh, the might of Amen has set me on my feet.


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