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The Key to the Great Mysteries
l337Ninja
Behind the veil of all the fieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines,  behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of cities, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackend visage of the gates of Al'Khazer, in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of Iblees the inspired pages of the Dark God, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. This doctrine seems to have been the nurse or god-mother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusivly for the education of nobles and kings. It commands the elements, knows the language of the stars and directs the planetary courses; when it speaks the moon falls blood-red from heaven; the dead rise in their graves and utter ominous words, as the night wind blows through their skull. This omnipotent doctrine, this bringer of life and death, this creator of empires, is magic. Magic is the key to all power and knowledge. If you have the magic, you have the world.