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Rh With lore of Chthonian mysteries, compel An oracle obscure of age-old Night; Winning a dubious light from darkness' self. Nor, impious, seek from deaf inarticulate Earth To wring ambiguous answer in the cave Trophonian.

The true Philosopher At every fane should be a neophyte, Initiate of every mystery, Enquirer at every oracle. From Delos' conscious antre to Deplhi'sDelphi's [sic] cave, From the Trophonian chasm to the height Where Carmel tends an ever-burning fire, Or Aphrodité by a falling star Answers her worshippers on Lebanon, To misty Mona with her Druid rites, Culling the best of many an alien faith To bind it in the nose-gay of his own,