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In a world that hath not been created.

And leaving the Universe of Matter,

The madness, of Evil and the Great Deceit,

Those who returneth singing in chorus

The feats of Nimrod, «the Defeated»!

Now I’ll continue with the narration. The tree of Enlil possessed spaced and straight
branches, which were really enormous thorns, in such manner that it was possible to climb by
them as a giant ladder. This was exactly what the brave Kassites did, preparing themselves to
ascend through the tree and siege «the Gates of Heaven». Once General Ninurta and fifty
warriors had climbed enough they realized that they were before the entrance of a cavern, or an
image thereof. They jumped audaciously from the tree, without knowing if they could set foot
in the mysterious world in which they were entering by the «Gates of Heaven», and they found
themselves in a clearly rocky floor. Some of them turned to look and they saw the tree fading
away in the unfathomable heights; and also in the edge of an abyss, by which was
distinguished, many feet away: the roof of the turret from where merged the enormous trunk;
the Ziggurat; the people of the population gathered around it; and the walled perimeter of the
city of Borsippa. Contrasting with the intense exterior light, where was still midday, a soft half-
light reigned in such site. However existed enough light as to distinguish the details of the
sinister cavern: seven echelons of stone were seen and, since the last, a catwalk fading away in
the distance. But over the entrance, following the curve of its arch, were nailed seven triangular
pennants. All of them with the same legend but in different idioms. In their own language they
could read:

Do not dare to cross this threshold

If ye have not died to passions before

And the temptations of the World.

Here only one cometh to be reborn

As Initiates in the White Fraternity,

But to geteth such privilege

It is necessary to die first.

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