...๐๐จ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ฅ๐๐จ๐จ ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ก, ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐ก๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ฎ๐ค๐ฃ๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ก๐-
๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ง, ๐ซ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง, ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ
๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ค.
One summer day a library appeared in a dream. The library went seven stories into
heaven above and seven stories down under the sea. The medium of its reflection was
the dream itself. As I descended beneath the water I ascended into the sky. The bottom
seventh floor was the uppermost seventh floor: the point at which above and below met.
๐๐ถ๐ชรฉ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ถ๐จ๐ข๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ข ๐ข ๐ญ๐ข ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข, the librarian said.
I took a book called Mystery Library Vol. I: The Dread-Reading. It began: Every
initiation is but the opening of a new door...which have sometimes been called veils...
There was an illustration of a temple; I pointed to it and said, I wish to go.
The wind started to blow. The yantra started to spin. It spun faster and faster. [I shut my
eyes as tight as I could.] Thenโthe Silent Watcher. Absolutely silent.
When I opened my eyes, my eyes were still closed. I was not I but a boy and a girl,
named Ma-Jack and Annie-Soph. Each of them were, themselves, double: the first,
Apollo and Apollyon, each seeking to absorb his being; the second, Nothing and
Limitation, an infinite negation meaning, there is no end.
He found himself confronted by two guards or cherubim who would not let them into
the temple. "What are we supposed to do now?โ They looked at the book. There was an
illustration of a temple, a boy and a girl, and two cherubim. The boy and girl were 1 [I].
The cherubim together were also only one angel. They looked at him again. His name
was Mercur-Lin. He said to them, "That letter which is also the number of this book is
the first letter of a dread name. When you read all four letters, you may enter." Ma-Jack
wrote this down: Clue No. I is I.
He looked inside the book to figure out where to look for the next clue. There was a
passage that read, "They went into the forest to search for the next clue. They
encountered another angel relegated to the shadows who said his name was Cernunnos.
He said, write down this clue, do not come out to the forest, for the master of darkness
will see." So Ma-Jack wrote down, I See. However by reading the passage they had
entered the passage. They had already been seen. Annie-Soph was taken in by the
shadows, disappeared in the abyss of Ayin, and she was only Annie, that is, she was not.
In the book it said, "He followed her into the abyss. He cast out the fallen angel Xaphan
who keeps the furnaces of Hell running." Ma-Jack X claimed. It was an X or schism.
"But what is the fourth and last letter?"
Mercur-Lin said, "What begins with 'yes' and ends in EXCESS?"
"The four letters are only three, but one of them is double!"
So he wrote out, ICXC, said the name, and the door was opened, the book was closed.