The Black Breviary

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A daily devotion to the self.

Eritis sicut dii Ye shall be as gods

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Day 0001Book I

Of Waking

Your own name is the first word of the day.

Rite · for those raised Christian

Stand up and say the opening of the Lord's Prayer with the names changed, then stop, because the rest asks for things. My name be hallowed. My will be done, here, on the ground.

It is done.

Question

Which words still reach your mouth before you have chosen any, and whose are they?

A seated, naked figure, chin on his fist, staring out of the dark, printed in negative.

Lucifer · Franz von Stuck, c. 1890

Of the Pact

I, the undersigned, of sound mind and my own master, renounce the god I was raised under and all his claims, every debt they claimed, every fear they taught me and every man who spoke in their name. I take my soul into my own keeping, entire and without condition, from this hour until my death, which ends the matter. I sign freely, before no witness but myself.

No. 000000

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