A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho by Fernando Morais
Author:Fernando Morais [Fernando Morais]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographie
ISBN: 9780007281404
Published: 2009-03-02T08:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 15
Paulo and Raul
EITHER ALONE OR WITH GISA, who was following him on his journey to satanism, Paulo began to try out some so-called magical exercises. One he frequently performed consisted in going to a park to pick a leaf of Sansevieria trifasciata, a plant with hard, pointed leaves, popularly known in English as mother-in-lawâs tongue and in Brazil as St Georgeâs sword. Performed in public, this exercise was likely to expose the novice to a certain amount of ridicule, since it was then necessary to walk ten steps holding the plant as though it were a real sword, turn towards the setting sun and then bow to the four points of the compass, pointing the âswordâ at each and shouting at the top of oneâs voice: âStrength lies in the West!â Each step to the left was accompanied by a roar, with eyes raised heavenwards: âKnowledge lies in the South! Protection lies in the East! Victory lies in the North!â
He would then take the leaf home, where he would cut it into eleven pieces (eleven being the Thelemitesâ magic number) with a penknife or an ordinary knife that he had previously thrust into the ground, and then heated over a fire and washed in sea water. After this he would arrange the eleven pieces on the kitchen table to form the symbol of Marsâa circle topped by a small arrow, which also represents the male sexâwhile boiling up some water in a saucepan. He would then mix the pieces up with the torn petals of two yellow roses and add them to the boiling water. The entire ceremony had to be performed so that the thick, viscous liquid thus produced would be ready at precisely eleven at night, which, according to the Liber Oz, is the hour of the Sun. He would then add it to his bath water, in which he would immerse himself until midnight, the hour of Venus. After performing one such ceremony, Paulo dried himself and wrote in his diary, with the house in almost total darkness and his notebook lit just by a single candle:
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