Chapter #4The Second Page by: Seuzz   The Second Page
The title page had been firmly locked down when you bought the Libra. Not until you had "claimed the book" for yourself by pressing a bloody thumbprint to the facing papers did it turn loose. But Joe turns it now and reads the continuation.
"On the possible abuse of this science. It is the nature of personae that they be given motion, for without motion there is no life, and matter from which the persona has departed is a mere corpse. Moreover, it is the nature of personae that they be displayed for contemplation, for although the persona is realized in matter it is perceived only through the understanding of those who behold it. Therefore, this work describes methods for the creation of personae, and their use, by which a true persona may be replaced with a false one, and inhabited from within by one to whom the persona does not belong.
"It has been since the Fall the evil habit of men to deceive and to employ instruments of deception, in contravention of holy law, and by dissimulation to encompass their purposes. By pretense and disguise have mighty labors been achieved, and it will easily be grasped that the knowledge and instruments given in this work can be employed for purposes other than the enlightenment of the understanding, and the admiration and comprehension of God's mighty creation.
"Let the reader beware those dangers, to soul as well as to body and mind, that attend this subject and its study, and let him not deceive himself as to them even as he perceives the means by which he might use its instruments to deceive others. Let him not say in his heart, "Come, by the knowledge and craft of this work may I encompass many great works, and ease my heart to all content. Let me employ its art how I will, and understand it no further than that my purposes be realized from behind the false faces I may construct with it." This work contains no snares but those the reader may make for himself, yet such is the folly and perversity of mankind that many may those snares fashion for themselves, and in their pride see not the dangers that attend even the most artful falsehood.
"Nor let any untrained in alchemical geometry enter here. Great mysteries in this work are presented, and so certain locks are placed upon it.
"Sign it not with a heart or spirit that is frivolous and unheedful."
He closes the book. But you take it and open it again to that page of warnings, and read:
De Re Abusus Potentialis hac Scientiam.
Est in natura Personae quod sit dandum motus, quia non est anima sine motus, et reliquae Materia a quo Personam quod praeterisse sola corpus inertis residuum. Praeterea, est in natura Personae, ut esse videantur per contemplationem; quamvis Persona attinens in materia, tantum percipitur sola per intellectum qui vident. Ergo, hoc opus ponit modos pro creatione personae,, et eorum usu, per quae vera persona potest reponi cum falsum unum, et habitabitur a in a unum, cui persona non pertinent.
Quia ex tempore Magna Ruina ut mali habitum autem Homine de fraus et adhibent de machinationes deceptio,prevaricando legem Divinam, et in illa simulatione dissimulatio operient, circumvenio proposito. Per calumnia et dissimulato, magna laborem habent effectum est, erit facile percipi quod scientia et machinationes presenti in opus, possunt usus in se proposita praeter quam illustrationem per intellectus, et admirationi et comprehensionem ex magni creaturae Dei.
Sit lector, cave illis pericula, ad animam sicut ad animum et corpus, quod attende hoc subiectum et suo studio, et eum non seducat se ad eos etiam, ut ipse percipit, per quem, ut usum eius instrumenta fallere alios. Et ne forte cor dicens, "Veni, et sic; per artes et scientiam huius summa operis, ut quia Ego potes cingunt multa magna opera, et aperis cor me ut in quae omnis contineri. Dimitte me, uti eius es quam ego, et intelligere, sed non amplius, quam quod mea causa esse intellexit, a post falsa facies ut construere cum." Haec non opus habet insidias sed lectorem faceret sibi, prauitas humana insipientia et tamen, quia plures formae suam tentationibus, non attendit superbia et periculis etiam arte effecit.
Nec quisquam ignarus geometriae alchymicam ingredieris huc. Traduntur mysteriis opere, quod est obsignatum compagibus.
Nec signi est cor ejus et spiritus hoc est frivolum et negligens.
Credit to Nostrum for the Latin translation.
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