Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati^®

Canticle of Baphomet

by Joshua J. Seraphim {Frater Annuit Coeptis} © 2001 All rights reserved. 

Litany of Enchantment

I Am He!  Great Wild Beast!  Gnarled Goat of Golgotha!  Double-Horned One!  Genitor-Genetrix of WoMan!  Begetter-Opposer!  Great Black Goat of the Woods!

I Am He!  No-Thing-ness!  In-All-Things!

Inverted-Initiator of the Star of the East!  I Am Naught!

Great One of the Night of Time!  Concealed Eye of the Concealed Sun!  Thou Art!

I Am Pan to the profane, who worships Me as Baphomet knowest Myself, yet unto the unbeholden I AM AegiPan, exalted in Man!  All in the Eye!  Lord of the Gates of Matter!

All-Dark, All-Power, All-Causer!

As Typhon-Set Am I revered with my Blood of the Sun!  Ye Lusts of the Snake extended in unlife!

As Belial Am I revered with my Canon of Lies!  Ye Eaters of Speech!

As Lucifer Am I revered with my Covenant of the Eye!  Ye Accursed Separators of Light and flesh!

As Leviathan Am I revered with my Scourge of Wisdom!  Ye Acolytes of the Black Flame in the Dragon-Abode!

I Am! He is He and I AM IN HIM!  I Am the Hidden One!  Shadow of Shadows behind the Sun!

I Am the Eye and the Tooth!  Fingers of Lucifuge the Firstborn is My Name!

I Am the Backward Face, He whose face is Behind Him!  Lord of Faces is My Name!

I Am the foul-smelling Breath of the Maw of Hell!  Disposer of Speech is My Name!

Thee, Thee I call forth!  Thou Terrible and Invisible One!

BAPHOMET! I summon Thee, I summon Thee, I summon Thee!

Nay!  I call thee not, in Thee I AM, and I Am naught, for in Him Am I invoked!

He, Devourer!  He, Retreater!  He, Overthrower!

Lord of the blackened blasphemous bloodrite!  BAPHOMET!

I Am He, Darkener of the earth!

I Am He, Elder of Gehenna!

I Am He, Double-Accursed One!

The Snake Illuminated!  The Goat Exalted!  The Secret Phallus Erect!

I Am Thou, He is He! Mine is the flesh, the Blood, and the Kingdom forever and ever!

Roarer!  Eater of Shades!  Double-Horned Lord!

As My Bride and Acolyte, is the Sister of Seduction!  Lady of the Bloodrite!

As My Son and Acolyte, is the Brother of Night!  Sire of Concealed Light!

O' Soul Unknown!

Thou Lust!  Thou Silence!  Thou Beauty!

Where I AM in Him are these things concealed, for Thee unveils the veiled Eye!

I AM the Indwelling Self, the Secret-Self that is Naught save that which is the self beyond Self!  In He I Am No-Self indwelling in thy-Self Concealed!  Nay!  Self-Revealed!

In Him I AM the Revealing No-Thing-ness that is concealed in All-Things-to-be!

And in Him is the Truth, the Truth, and the Truth!  Verily is this also a Lie!

O' Self Revealed!

O' Thou!  Thou?  Nay, Fool!  Thou Art That!

Embraced by the Black Flame!  Shadow of Shadows!  Opener of Mouths!

There is no part of the Gods that is not of Me!

There is no part of Me that is not of the Gods!

I AM!

He, the Seven-fold Star Initiator!  He, the One in Eight!  Begetter of Naught!

I am He, the Destroyer of Destroyers the Slayer of the Self-Slain!  Mystery of Mysteries!

O' Thou Eye!

In Him am I called forth, In His Name!  The Indwelling!

BAPHOMET!

Canticle

Be Silent!  I AM the Indwelling! 

Inverted-Opposer-Disputer!

Obscene One!

Hearken!

Breaker-In-Pieces!  Liar-of-Covenants!

Double-Horned Hinderer!

I AM the blasphemous Indwelling self of the Self-Initiator

O' Soul of My-Self!  he is HE!

Self-slaying seed of Satan!

Self-revealing ego of self-concealment

I AM the ego of Man;  I am No-Man

He is in Thee and I in Him!

O' Man of Him!  Alas!

I AM He!  I AM No-Self

One-thousand-and-One Lies of the Prophets beckon My Name!

I AM the Lie, verily is ego a lie as Man is the Lie

Lo!  Hearken to this Canticle of the Blasphemy of BAPHOMET!

I AM the True Beast, the True Man and the False Prophet

Yea, He is the Lie of the Testament as Man is the True Beast

Hearken and bethink!  I name Thee!  I Will Thee!

Gnarled Goat of Golgotha!

.∙.BAPHOMET.∙.

Blackened Blasphemy of the Great Black Flame!

.∙.BAPHOMET.∙.

Mad God of gods of the Horror of the Abyss!

.∙.BAPHOMET.∙.

I AM Ge'Hinnom!

I AM the Veil of the Abyss wherein the Veil is the falsehood of its Rendering

and the falsehood of the Knowledge and Conversation

I AM the Abyss from the No-Thing-ness of the Maw of Hades comes No-Man forth.

Horned and Eyeless Son of Iniquity!

In Thee I AM Inverted

Dispeller of the Dying Darkness!

Disposer of speech!

Devourer of the flesh of Muhammad!

O' Ye whom awaken the Lust and Malediction of the Horned Serpent

I AM the Eye of the Goat and the Serpent whom sleepeth Dead but dreaming

I AM the Blood of the Goat wherein lies the resurrection of the Snake

I AM the Horn of the Goat, and mine is the Gilded Wand in the Black Sanctuary!

Horned One of Silence!

Great Goat of the Night of Man!

Double-Horned Elder Serpent!

Lord!  Hierophant!

Mage of Mages, Mystery of Mysteries, Word of Words!

God of the Great Gates of the Black Spheres!

Mine Father!  The Eye!  Inverted Head!

My-Self made perfect!  Indwelling self of No-Self

I AM in Him and in Thee I AM Not for I AM SELF

Silent Self Indwelling of My-self!  I Beckon Thee!  Nay!

I call Thee not for in Him am I invoked!

Progenitor!  Malefactor!  Vanquisher!

Lo'!  Hearken to this the Black Liturgy

of the Canticle of the Blasphemy of BAPHOMET!

Nay!  Be Silent!

The Blasphemy of Baphomet

Be Silent!

I AM I. I, the Self!  Against thee, I, with Thee, ne'er shalt I be beckoned, or invoked or summoned forth!  O' I AM the filthy One, the Obscene One, the Black One!  I AM the Inverted Indwelling Ego-Self of the Inverted Man.  I AM He, Shadow of Shadows, Darkener of all Darkness, Fantasy of fantasies latent in the BAPHOMET dead but dreaming.  I AM Not.  I AM No-One.

Before Me was made No-Thing that ever was made.  No-Thing was made before ME that was made during the Night of Man.  I AM before All men.  I AM before All gods.  I AM before All time.  I AM before Becoming.  No-Thing is before Me.  I AM before No-Man.

Thou knowest not!  I, the Great Devil of the Black Earth!  I, the Horned Lion-Serpent of the Black Sun!  I, the Blasphemous Goat of the Black Flame!  Where I AM not are these things concealed in ME.  Inverted.  All-Dark!  All-Seer!  O' Man I am the Mad God, O' Gods I AM None!  I, the All-Seeing Secret Eye of the Erect Phallus that weepeth.  Thou Eye!  I AM He, the Open Eye behind the Eye of the Goat in the Triangle.  Man-Made-God.  I, the Weeping Oracle.

Hearken not and bethink!  I, the Double-Horned Elder God, nay, I AM the Devil as the Devil is thy Inverted God.  Blessed Be He!  There is no Man but the Devil.  There is no God but Man.  I Defieth!  O' Man, O' self-Indwelling Soul, O' self-Inverted visage of unfathomable Naught!  I, the Great Gnarled God of the World Beneath the Worlds, Over the Worlds, and Between the Worlds, Opening the Day and Rendering the Veil of the Night of Pan.  He of the Name unspeakable, the Number unimaginable, the Face unbeholden; Indwell!  Rise!  Lust!

He is not He!  Androgyne-Disputer-Initiator!  He, O' exalted Acolytes, the Self-Revealed Inverted Star of Self-Initiation!  Thine Oath art the Opposer; being the Disputer of Reason, the Hinderer of thy petty Logic, the Disposer of Mind.  Verily, art thou the Initiate and the Initiator.

Mine is the bidding O' Double-Horned Snake of Silence!  Yea, I, the BAPHOMET, extend my-Self in thine Eye as the Pestilent Vanquisher of the Great Old Ones.  The Dead Gods Slain and Conquered.  I, Blessed Lord of the Covenant shalt beckon my Sister, the Lady of the Battle of Conquest, to march upon the Lamb and the Lion of the Black Earth.  She whom no Woman hath seen at any time shalt smite the False Brothers of the False Beast with the Sword of the People! 

Mine is the eightfold Word in One, the inverse Octonimos.  Concealed threefold in the Word of Our Law are mine ordeals of the Hermit, the Lover, and the man of Earth.  Concealed are my sons as sisters - the Brothers are not my Prophets.  Concealed are the keys of the Law.  Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.  The Elect and the untold few, the Lovers uncalled by name, wanderers in burning grounds, raveners, the Scarlet Whore adorned with cartouche leaping and hissing in bloodrites of Her Kindred - these O' Fool are of ME!  Conceal!  To the Hordes!  I, the Horned Lust that is erect in the flesh of every Man.  I, I, the Lust that Slays!  Be thou a Canticle of Love.  Love is the law, love under will.  Be thou as I;  the Apocalypse of Love!

All-Father!  I, the First Father! O' GOG!  O' MAGOG!  The Brothers and the Brothers are not of ME.  They are as the Liers-in-Wait.  These are the Contenders.  I, the First Father of Scared Writing, ye' Scribes of Mercury, bid Me as thine Father of None, whom is All!  Bid me as thine Father of magickal spells, Lord of Sorcery, of Secret Passages, and of Forgotten Ways!  O' Sons of the Lost Temple, Mine is the Silent Brotherhood.

Here is a testament  Apostle.  Knowest the Aquarius Man, the Virgo Hermit, the Serpent Whore.  Thou shalt see the False Beast.  Know that you defy and oppose, for you will know that of the IV, one comes as the WidowWhore.  The False Brothers are not the True Man.  Verily, do you keep silence?  The Holy Guardian Angel is the Infernal Fallen Angel.

I, the madness of the mad God Chaos.  Inverted, I AM the Falsehood of the Godhead of Manhood, the Falsehood of the Rendering of the Veil of Paroketh, the Falsehood of the Crossing of the Abyss.  Fool!  The Abyss of the Deep ye hound as a dog is the Lie of the Masquerade of thine Ego-Self.  Cross not.  To seek the Falsehood is to exalt the Tower of Illusions.  In the Illusion is self-reality and the false identity!  Thou art the Abyss!  I AM the Falsehood.

Io Pan!  I, the Androgyne GOG!  I, MAGOG,  worshipped as the Ogdoad !  I, the True Beast!  Lust of the Snake extended in Man, the Goat of None is My Name.  The Horned-Serpent God of OAI-IAO.  I, the Lust of the vulgar Goat God-Man leaping in foul adulterous laughter!  I AM Thou, the Godhead, Macrocosm revealed in the Microcosm.  I AM No Man, the Genitor-Genetrix of the Universe revealed in the Multiverse.  I AM M.A.N. Averse!

I, the Voiceless Voice of the Silence whose Mouth is the foul-smelling Maw of Hell.  This is the untruth of Hell that is the Lie of hells.  I AM all Hells, as Man is the Devil, there is no god but the Devil.  And lo', Hell is the veil of the Lies of every lie and every lie.  I, He whom thou worshippeth as Belial, Lord of Lies and as the Antichrist.  The Veil of Purgatory hides ever the Masks of the Devil, yea, the bounds of Hell do not withhold its breech.  Hell is the threshold of the Sanctuary in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, the Gate of Gehenna! I, the Chapel Perilous. Mine appearance is masked behind the evil of appearances that is the Truth in Matter.  He!  The Evil Voice, Evil Tongue, Evil Eye!  Blessed Be the Abomination of Desolation!  Blessed Be the Malediction of the Holy Sepulchre!  Blessed Be the Blasphemy of the Tabernacle!  O' BAPHOMET!

BAPHOMET!  Defiler!  Opposer!  Disputer!  Progenitor!  Begetter!  Darkener!  Malefactor!  Suppressor!  Self-Causing, Self-Generating, Self-Revealing, Self-Seducing, Self-Indwelling Secret!  O' Pestilent One!  I AM the Inheritor of a Dead God, yea, the Conquerer of the Lamb!  Great Blasphemous Black Goat-God of Golgotha!  I AM the Horned Serpent!  O' Obscene One!

Hearken O' kindred, to the revealing of thine Apostle and Silent Scribe.  Yea, verily is He the Horned Serpent whose Love is the nature of the apocalypse.  His Number is a hieroglyph and His Seal is a talisman, as the pestilence of His Word is To Keep Silence!  He is the BAPHOMET of the Inverted Sevenfold Star, Seraph of the Strength of Severity.  The Sigil thereof is a Mark of Self-Initiation, for thou art beckoned forth in Him!  I, BAPHOMET hereby makest the last covenant the Word of my Sister the Mother Whore, sealing Man as Antichrist, Beast as Babylon, Mother of Harlots as Morning Star, Priest of Princes as Pharaoh of Pharaohs.  In Woman is the indwelling of all Art.  Ye are Gods, Seducers of gods and Devils, Progenitors of a New Race! 

To Thee, Melek'Taus!  All Holy Books I come to blaspheme, these to seal the Spell in Zoroaster's Urn.  I,  Prophet of the Peacock Hath drunk Tammuz's Blood from out the Graal of Iblis and the Companions of the Lie.  Eve's brood refuse penitence, beset by the mortal sins of Father Kaayin the Murderer.  Alas!
Do ye tread the Path of Blame?
 

I am Ego, I was ever-coming, Not Then - Not Yet, Nor E'er - But Now!

Tammuz has been slain upon the Altar-table, a sacrifice anew made to Ba'al. At Midnight 'mid the Field of Corn
The Bull of Meithras is slain, the Snake is born again.  Thy Path the Khaibt treadst, not E'er, not then, But Now!

O' Metacosm of Between,Who art E'er - Now - and NOT, Aught Imagined is That we know Not - I AM the Childe of No. 

I, BAPHOMET forge the Aeons and fate's Edge to breech God's Clay upon the Abyss to throw.
 

Ba.Ra.Ka.  The threefold Gateless Gate within the Tree.  Thou art the Soul Of I, who am the Very Same!

I Am the Indwelling, BAPHOMET, who veileth the Sphinx's smile.  I, E'er looking Ne'er seeing Eye of Meithras, the Bull thou shalt see.

Mithra to Adam speaks and the Rites of Toad and Cat eclipsed in Judahite Eucharist.  Self to self over Self's Abyss I, BAPHOMET, come to Gods, Man, Beasts!

O' BELIAL, Sons of El, of Jeh, of Eloah, Az'ra'Il at my left hand Ur'i'El at my right hand - To-morrow and To-day I leadeth the Blind Seraph to the Tree. 

50 pomegranates of Understanding with each sip and each sup, through Daath's threshold dost HE Go.

Betwixt the Gate of This and That, get O.U.T. O' BAPHOMET!  By the point of Qutub and the circumference of the Kiblah, I Go.  I, the curse of the Yatukan, the Nubian, the Yezidi, the Canaanite:  I Am the secret key of Alif! Thou Art the indwelling.  Be silent!

Prologue.

22 December 2002

The Opening of the Eye that Weeps.  Abu-fi-Hamat!  By the hands of this ill-fated scribe shalt be writ and versed the Blasphemy of the Black Liturgy of BAPHOMET.