Aleister, Honey Badger, Prince Szijjarto and Fenrir all gathered under the moonlight to watch the moon witch Selene perform the ceremony.
This is the first day of spring. Spring itself means the resurrection of all things and rebirth from death. And on March 21st, the sun will appear in the Aries Palace... The Aries Palace represents Xi Tiansi
The constellation of Xitiansi itself is the third sun of this world, and Xitiansi is also the lover of Hengwo, the split self and her son.
Therefore, this is the night when the concept of "creation" is strongest in the whole year - no one!
Selene put on a pure white wool robe, faced the moon, and washed her hands carefully with a silver basin. When she washed her hands, she seemed to be stroking the moon in the water with concentration.
"What is this doing?"
Szijjarto asked Aleister modestly.
But Aleister could only shake his head.
Not to mention her—perhaps even the well-informed elves in Theocratic Country know nothing about this. Only Hypatia, who sold the "Egg Moon Tantra" to Aiwass, can answer this question.
After all, the Moon Witch itself is a lost heritage, and the last Moon Witch is the Eternal Self. And Aleister is not qualified to read the "Egg Moon Tantra", so he can't understand what Selene is doing.
However, the essence of rituals is interoperable.
She therefore tentatively inferred: "Perhaps she is touching the 'Moon in the Water' to complete the ritual of twin mirrors. The sacred number of the moon can be 1, the sacred number of water when used as a mirror is 2, and 3...
"
As Aleister whispered, Selene raised her hands that were shining under the moonlight from the water, letting the water fall on her head and wet her long hair.
She raised her hands high to the moon, and then used the little finger nails of each hand to cut open the palm of the other hand - only her little finger had long nails, which were as sharp as a knife.
But when the blood dripped into the silver basin, the blood did not spread out in the water. Instead, it gathered together, causing the moon in the basin to gradually turn into a blood moon.
Then, Selene began to sing clumsily but sincerely in Elvish.
The light singing will remind people of the sea, breeze, and moonlight.
"...I understand that the holy number three can refer to self-sacrifice. The blood offered is also a kind of dedication, in order to fit in with the holy day of March 21, and to call out the power of creation."
Aleister realized that his deduction was not wrong.
She recalled another incident - Cardinal Cyril once mentioned to Aiwass the secret of "The Sermon of the Night Rabbit". The so-called "Book of Sermons" may be the "Book of Tantras" in another part of the universe.
a translation.
As mentioned above, the eternal self has given up the old self ten times. The first three times were to give up clothing, flesh and blood, and shadow, and the last three times were to give up reason, instinct, and the true self.
Precisely because everything is thrown away, only "I" is left in the eternal self, so He will eventually become the "eternal self".
Selene also explained to Aleister where her werewolf power came from - it was the "Morning Crow Tantra" about Xi Tiansi that Aiwass had read. She also
She heard similar whispers... However, she failed to complete the trial of "throwing away shadows" and only obtained the power of werewolf from the trial of "throwing away flesh and blood".
Aristotle, the apostle of great philosophy, once wrote an important work called "On Instruments". The syllogism was proposed from this book. This book is regarded as an elective course in the university, and Aiwass was in the library.
I came across this book while reading... because it is very close to the occult classics, and it uses metaphors to describe the secrets and truths of many things.
In the "Categories" of this book, Aristotle uses the word "category" to describe the unity of form and matter, and gives ten kinds of existence - entity, quantity, quality, relationship, location,
Time, posture, everything, active, passive. The latter nine are all extensions of "entity".
This exactly corresponds to the ten times of abandonment of the eternal self... The things abandoned in the first nine times are just an extension of the "true self". Only the tenth abandonment is the most critical act of ascending to God.
"In other words, the holy number for Hengga to ascend to God is...ten?"
Aleister murmured in a low voice: "But, will there be a tenth way... Or is it the dismantling of 9 and 1? Love separated from the unchanging eternity... Then if
If it is put back together again, what will it be?"
The fusion of eternity and love sounds like an extremely subtle paradox.
Just like the fusion of 3+7 paths - those who give themselves and those who lead others, form an incomparable circle; and 2+8 means transcending a mirror, which will also form a repeated cycle. Coincidentally
Yes, the combination of 1+9 also forms such a ring of nothingness...
What does this mean that the Tenth Path is non-existent nothingness...or can it be said that the Tenth Path itself is "nothingness"?
"The tenth path?"
Fenrir heard Aleister's whisper.
He said casually: "I have heard other astrologers talk about similar hypotheses - there may be a tenth path or a zeroth path in this world. Because the current nine paths are not enough to explain everything... Just like
Sometimes we deduce the stars, but find that the results cannot match. This is often because there is an extra star that has not been discovered before.
"Besides the Nine Paths, there are other forces. Some people think that it is 'zero', but I tend to think that it is a level higher than 'eternity' and one of the paradoxes of 'one more than infinity'
Ring... Speaking of which, which one do you think is bigger, 'infinity' or 'infinity plus one'?"
"Plus one to infinity."
Aleister answered without thinking, as if someone had asked her this before.
"Me too! You think the same as me... No wonder you think there is a tenth path!"
Fenrir was very happy with the answer given by Aleister: "Some of us also thought that they are the same size, so there should not be a tenth path greater than the number of dusk, so the extra one
The variable can only be the zeroth path..."
Aleister didn't pay much attention to Fenrir's words, he just stared at Selene's creation ceremony intently.
She chanted ancient songs while circling the basin. Whenever her shadow obscured the basin, she secretly sprinkled some of Alphonse's Moonchild bone powder into it. When she turned to the sixth
When making a circle, all the ashes were scattered in it.
On the seventh lap, she poured a tube of Aleister's blood into it to determine the blood relationship between the newly born monster and Aleister.
In the eighth circle, she also put into it the polluted "Eyes of Mercy" given to her by Aleister. This ritual would not exhaust its power, but would instead purify it with the help of the power of the Eternal Self.
On the ninth round, she put the Fool's Liver, which had lost its soul but still had a strong aroma of wine, into it - this was a material that was directly consumed. Because Aleister felt that it would be bad to keep this thing for a long time, so it was better to hurry up.
Use it and convert it into combat power.
Then, she returned to the starting position.
I saw Selene suddenly raising her hand, as if grabbing a handful of moonlight!
She clenched her hands tightly, so hard that her fists trembled - the wounds on her hands that were originally bleeding slowly oozed out a golden transparent liquid that exuded a rich fragrance.
It is the "Emperor Ooze" that draws power from the "Moonlight" to create monsters.
Plants and trees become monsters when touched, and mortals who touch them will go crazy.
The witch created the werewolf, imitating the ability of the moon witch; the werewolf went crazy when seeing the moon, also because of their inherent disability.
And as golden threads dripped from the seams of her tightly clenched fists, connecting her to the blood moon in the water like an olive... Selene closed her eyes and sensed it like a puppeteer.
The bubbles of blood in the water became thicker and thicker, and the liquid gradually turned from transparent to bright red.
A sharp cry rang out out of thin air, shaking Prince Szijjarto to the point where he couldn't help but cover his ears - but it was useless, the sound could penetrate both hands and all materials. His eyes instantly opened.
His eyes suddenly turned red, and strong anger and agitation filled his eyes. He bent over, holding his ears with his clenched hands, and shook his arms vigorously, as if he wanted to directly pull his ears off.
It's like tearing it off.
Aleister and Fenrir also clearly felt strong nausea and nausea. Aleister could still hold on to his crumbling body, but Fenrir's reaction was even more violent - he knelt on the ground and suddenly started
Vomit.
Only the honey badger's reaction was relatively small. She just frowned slightly and looked at the silver pool with a diameter of less than one meter.
More and more intense blood surged from it, and the swaying blood stained the silver and hung on the wall, forming layers of increasingly rich pale pink blood films.
