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Fire was practiced at the Light of the Moon and existed a College of Hierophants; in the next
centuries, it had to be occulted the Truth of the Cold Fire to the Romans, Visigoths, Arabs, and
Catholics, being reduced the celebration of the Cult to the strictly familiar ambit: even, inside
of such reserved familiar ambit, it had to be called only those who demonstrated a convenient
gnostic predisposition to face the Test of the Cold Fire, which in nothing had changed and
continued being as terrifying and mortal as before. Except for those periods that I have
mentioned, during which no member of the House of Tharsis was capable to enter in the Secret
Cavern, the ussual was the minimum formation of two Initiates by century, in the worst Ages,
and of five or six in the most proliferate.
If the Initiate was a Lady of Tharsis, was given to her the title of «Vraya», in
remembrance of the Iberian Guardians. If he was about a Knight, he was called Noyo, which
had been the name, according to the White Atlanteans, of the Hyperborean Pontifexes that in
the Atlantis guarded the Ark, it means, the Basal Stone, of the Infinite Stairway that They
knew to build and that guided to the Origin. It is obvious that, to comply with the vow of the
Men of Stone, the Noyos and Vrayas had to become in hermits, that's to say, they had to dwell
in the Secret Cavern and remain all the possible time with the Wise Sword; and no one could
serve them because nobody, but them, could enter in the abode. But such loneliness lacked of
importance for the Initiates: the renounce and the sacrifice that demanded the function of
Guardian of the Wise Sword was considered a High Honor to the Lords of Tharsis.
According to what was referred by who had entered and departed from the Secret
Cavern, the work realized for many centuries by the Inititates that remained there had gifted
the site of some amenitites. In fact, even though in the beginning was agreed to not introduce
cultural objects, the truth is that the Noyos and Vrayas were carving patiently the stone of the
Cavern and modeled chairs, tables, beds, altar, and a representation of the Goddess of the Cold
Fire. And in front of the Countenance of Pyrene, burnt once again the Flame of the Perennial
Lamp.
But the Countenance of the Goddess not emerged this time from a Menhir but was
sculpted over a giant green stalgamite. Neither existed a mechanism to open the Eyes because
they had been deeply excavated and were always opened, ready to reveal to the Initiates the
Inifinite Blackness of Themselves. In front of the Countenance, was the altar, which consisted
of a cubic column topped by two echelons: the surface of the superior echelon reached to the
chin of the Goddess and, over it, was a vertical hole in which was introduced the hilt of the
Wise Sword up to the quillon, in such manner that the same remained straight and aligned with
the Nose of the Goddess, as if it were an axis of symmetry of the Countenance; thus, the Stone
of Venus, that was crimped in the crossguard of the hilt, appeared in the centre of the scene,
disposed for the contemplation. In the surface of the bottom echelon, under the level of the
hilt, was place the Perennial Lamp. Such section of the Secret Cavern had form of semi-
spherical nave, being the stalagmite with the Countenance of Pyrene in a near extreme to the
wall of the stone; this appeared gushed of lava and salts, while in the roof was presented bristly
of greenish stalactites; the floor, on the contrary, had been carefully cleaned from
protuberances and leveled, in such manner that it was possible to put comfortably in front of
the Countenance of the Goddess and contemplate, as well, the Perennial Lamp and the Wise
Sword with the Stone of Venus.
The necessary nourishment to subsist was provided by the Lords of Tharsis maintaining

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