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I am shadowed with the Circle of the Stone, and covered with the morning Clouds. My
feet are swifter than the winds, and my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My
garments are from the beginning, and my dwelling place is in my self. The Lion knoweth
not where I walk, neither do the beasts of the field understand me. I am defloured, and
yet a virgin: I sanctifie, and am not sanctified. Happy is he that imbraceth me: for in the
night season I am sweet, and in the day full of pleasure. My company is a harmony of
many Cymbals, and my lips sweeter than health it self. I am a harlot for such as ravish
me, and a virgin with such as know me not: For lo, I am loved of many, and I am a lover
to many; and as many as come unto me as they should do, have entertainment. Purge
your streets, O ye sons of men, and wash your houses clean; make your selves holy, and
put on righteousness. Cast out your old strumpets, and burn their clothes; abstain from
the company of other women that are defiled, that are sluttish, and not so handsome and
beautiful as I, and then will I come and dwell amongst you: and behold, I will bring forth
children unto you, and they shall be the Sons of Comfort. I will open my garments, and
stand naked before you, that your love may be more enflamed toward me.
As yet, I walk in the Clouds; as yet, I am carried with the Winds, and cannot descend
unto you for the multitude of your abominations, and the filthy loathsomness of your
dwelling places.
This passage comes from the Cotton Appendix XLVI, Division XII, “Actio Tertia. Trebonæ
Generalis”, ff. 218–220. In Clay Holden’s transcription from the Cotton Appendix he
says that “Circle of the Stone” in Casaubon’s transcription should be “circle of the sonne”.
Three years earlier the Enochian Keys were received, and, though it’s a minor
comparison, for some reason when reading the above passage certain words and phrases
stood out to me as being reminiscent of phrases in the Keys. For instance, “the beasts of
the field” appears in the 19 th Key where it is represented by the single Enochian word
Levithmong (LEVITHMONG). Also both “dwelling places” (fargt FARGT) and
“dwelling place” (faórgt FAORGT) occur in the same 19 th Key, in an extended passage
that refers to a harlot. “The Sons of Comfort” is a curious phrase, the word “comfort”
occurs nines times in the Keys (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 18 [twice], 19) and in the 4 th Key is the
phrase “the sons of Pleasure” (Nor quasáhi NOR QUASAHI). In Crowley’s vision in
the 9 th Æthyr the “daughter of babalon”, who is also the “daughter of the King”, is “she
that is set upon the Throne of Understanding”, whereas in the above passage the
“Daughter of Fortitude” says of herself “I am Understanding”. In modern tarot packs
the trump “Fortitude” portrays a woman either wrenching open or forcing shut the
gaping jaws of a lion, which is echoed in the wonderful phrase in the passage received
by Kelly, “The Lion knoweth not where I walk”. (Possibly the model for Fortitude is
the water nymph Cyrene, a devotee of the moon goddess Artemis. The Sun god, Apollo,
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