XV. Verba perditio^iis animarum.
XV. Verba perditio^iis animarum.
Fire. For I do not want the material things from which I came. I avoid all bright things, and I refuse to follow any bright works, and I don't want the ornaments of bright things, because they strip the soul bare. For this is my work, because he wants this of me, from whom I have come, and I am that curse which he has made.
Read the original Latin
Ignem.
Nam ego et ma> teria de qua exivi, aliud nolumus.
Ego enim omnia lucida fugio, ac omnia lucida > opera sequi recuso, et orania omamenta lucidorum nolo, quia spoliatrix anima-* > rum sura.
Nam hoc opus meum est, quoniam ille sic vult de quo orta sum, ac > maledictio illa sum, quam idem fecit.»
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