Liber Lunae - Chapter 50

Verses

Verse 77

You will cross the black sky as Khonsu crossed it: not hurried, not late, and accountable to no sleeper.

Verse 78

You must keep silver where the Sun keeps gold, for not every treasure should survive noon.

Verse 79

You will measure the night for Thoth when human clocks become drunk.

Verse 80

You must enter the tomb without waking the dead merely to prove you can.

Verse 81

You will pass over the cat temples quietly. They already possess sufficient confidence.

Verse 82

You must not heal every wound. Some scars are archives and some archives are warnings.

Verse 83

You will count the breaths of kings and peasants without improving the total for either.

Verse 84

You must lend light to thieves and priests equally, so both may discover what they are.

Verse 85

You will wax without vanity.

Verse 86

You will wane without apology.

Verse 87

You must remember that every empire which called itself eternal has been observed by several of your phases.

Verse 88

You will receive prayers, curses, poems, and astronomical measurements. Prefer the measurements.

Verse 89

You must leave the dawn before applause begins.

Verse 90

You will return when nobody has learned anything.