the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

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THE EQUINOX
from view, but every ready to hand. He did not display his
weapon to the wanton, neither did he brandish it before the
eyes of the gilded courtezan—Babylon, thou harlot of the
seven mensions of God’s Glory! But he kept it free from rust,
shart and glittering bright, so that when the time came
wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap
forth from its sheat like a flash of lightning from betwixt
the lips of God, and slay him who had ventured to cross
his path, silently, without even so much as grating against
his bones.