Rise to Heaven Like Smoke
In the early hours of morning, the
priests gather at the altar of fire and sacrifice a baby lamb, in the pure
state of innocence ripe for cruel mistreatment. They nail it to the ground
through its ear, and then slit its throat into a goblet, which they pour
in unequal amounts into the five fires that are the altar. There is a summoning
of dark spirits, and a blasphemy to JEHOVAH.
Then they chant the prayer, in distempo, to the lords of CHAOS:
The priests absorb the ash of the
fire through vision, and speak the prophecy of the world. For it is dying,
and it will come to us. For it is being killed, and we are the agents of
killing, not the initiators. We mock life because life is what invokes
us; we are only the agents ripe for destruction, as that is our relation
to this world. The priests kick the ashes into the wind, and life the transient
palls.
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