March 21, night.
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 their rebirth from death. On March 21st, the sun will appear in Aries... Aries is the constellation representing Xitiansi. Xitiansi itself is the third sun in the world, and Xitiansi is also the third sun in the world. The lover of the eternal self, the divided self and her son.
So 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 in a silver basin. When she washed her hands, she seemed to be stroking the moon in the water with concentration.
"What are you doing?"
Szijjarto asked Aleister modestly.
But Aleister could only shake his head.
Don’t mention her—even the well-informed elves in the Theocracy probably don’t know anything about it. Only Hypatia, who sold the Egg Moon Tantra to Aiwass, could answer this question.
After all, the moon witch itself is a lost inheritance, and the last moon witch is the eternal self. Aleister is not qualified to read the Egg Moon Tantra, so he cannot 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, and the sacred number of water when used as a mirror For 2, and 3..."
As Aleister whispered, Selene raised her hands shining under the moonlight from the water, letting the water fall on Wet your long hair on your head.
She raised her hands high to the moon, and then used the little finger nails of each hand to cut the palm of the other hand - only her little finger had long nails, as sharp as a knife.
When the blood dripped into the silver basin, the blood did not spread in the water. Instead, they gathered together, causing the moon in the basin to gradually turn into a blood moon.
Afterwards, Selene began to sing clumsily but sincerely in Elvish.
The light singing will remind people of the sea, the breeze, and the 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, calling for the creation of life. Power."
Aleister realized that his inference was not wrong.
She recalled another incident - Cardinal Cyril once mentioned to Aiwass the secret of "The Sermon of the Hare in the Night." The so-called "Book of Precepts" may be another translation of the "Book of Tantra" in Taichu.
As mentioned above, the permanent self has abandoned the old self ten times. The first three times are to give up clothes, flesh and blood, and shadows, and the next three times are to give up clothes, flesh and blood, and shadows.To abandon reason, abandon instinct, and abandon 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 book "Morning" about Xi Tiansi that Aiwass had read. Umitr Tantra". She had heard similar whispers... However, she failed to complete the trial of "throwing away shadows" and only gained 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". It is from this book that the syllogism is proposed. This book is considered an elective course in college, and Aiwass read this book when he was reading in the library... 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 , nature, relationship, place, time, posture, all, active, passive. The next nine types are all considered extensions of "entity".
This exactly corresponds to the ten abandonments of the eternal self... The things abandoned in the first nine times are just an extension of the "true self". Only the tenth time of giving up is the most critical act of ascending to the gods.
"In other words, the holy number that allows Hengwo to become a god is...ten?"
Aleister murmured in a low voice: "But, there will be a tenth Is it the path... Or is it the love separated from the unchanging eternity by dismantling 9 and 1? Then what will it be if it is put back together again? ”
The fusion of eternity and love, this 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 ring; and 2+8 means transcending a mirror, which will also form a Repeated cycle. Coincidentally, the combination of 1+9 also forms such a ring of nothingness...
What this means is that the tenth path is non-existent nothingness...or, in other words, the tenth path itself Is it "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 we sometimes 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.
"Beyond the Nine Paths. , and other powers. Some people think that it is 'zero', but I tend to think that it is a level higher than 'eternity', a paradoxical ring of 'one more than infinity'... Speaking of which, do you think 'infinity' is the same as Which one is bigger, 'infinity plus one'? ”
“Add one to infinity. ”
AlaiSte replied 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!"
What Fenrir gave to Aleister The answer is very happy: "Some of us originally thought that they are the same size, so there should not be a tenth path greater than the number of dusk, so the extra variable can only be the zeroth path... ”
Aleister didn’t pay much attention to Fenrir’s words, but just stared at Selene’s creation ceremony intently.
She sang ancient songs while circling the basin. Whenever her shadow covered the basin, she would secretly sprinkle some of Alphonse's Moonchild bone meal into it. When she turned to the sixth circle, she scattered all the ashes in it.
On the seventh lap, she poured a tube of Aleister's blood into it. This is used to determine the blood relationship between the newly born monster and Aleister.
On the eighth circle, she also put in the tainted "eyes of mercy" given to her by Aleister. This ritual does not exhaust its power, but rather purifies it through the power of the Eternal Self.
On the ninth lap, she put the Fool's Liver, which had lost its soul but was still filled with a strong aroma of wine, into it - this was a material that was directly consumed. Because Aleister felt that it would not be good to keep this thing for a long time, so it was better to use it quickly 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 so hard that her fists trembled - from the wounds on her hands that were bleeding, a golden transparent liquid exuding a rich fragrance slowly leached out.
That is the "Emperor Ooze" that draws power from the "Moonlight" to create monsters.
The plants and trees become monsters when touched, and mortals will go crazy if they touch it.
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.
As golden threads dripped from her clenched fists, connecting her to the blood moon in the water like an olive... Selene closed her eyes like a puppeteer. Feeling.
The blood bubbles in the water became thicker and larger, 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 everything. substance. His eyes turned red instantly, and strong anger and agitation filled his eyes. He bent over and grabbed his ears with his clenched hands. His arms shook vigorously, as if he wanted to tear his ears off.
Aleister and Fenrir also clearly felt strong nausea and nausea. Aleister could still hold on to his shaky body, but Fenrir's reaction was even more violent - he knelt on the ground and violentlyThen started vomiting.
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.
Intensified 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.
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