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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:11:36 GMT

The Astron Argon [Silver Star or A.'. A.'.] Logo
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For those who have followed the Babalon Working series, in
which Crowley, Parsons and Hubbard were rumored to have
engaged in perhaps the most profound working of this century,
you will be interested to discover that the logo of the
A.'. A.'. is precisely that of the Babalon yantra.

Logo of the College of Thelema
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Students of geometry, symbolism and Egyptology will be quite
interested in what comprises this logo.

The Equinox of the Gods
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"I, Isis, am all that has been, that is or shall be; no mortal
man hath ever me unveiled." Hence the epic theosophical tome
by Blavatsky entitled "Isis Unveiled." cf: this with the fact
that saucer-nut extraordinaire Dr. J. Allen Hynek -- longtime
project Bluebook guru/spokesperson -- noted towards the tail end
of his career that "all of the answers [to the UFO enigma] lie
in [Blavatsky's] theosophy." Tie this in with Crowley's "past
life recollection" of being "priestess of the Veiled One" [see
following] and the current upsurge of "BVM" apparitions in
conjunction with "UFO" phenomenology (a la Fatima, etc.) and
we're finally getting somewhere in this bizarre labyrinth.

Following is an absolutely fascinating missive by Aleister Crowley
which includes all the trinkets of today's UFO mythology -- star
people, laser/particle-beam weaponry, serpent "gods," interspecies
copulation, Fatima-esque phenomena (right down to the showers of
sparks and the smell of roses), Drunvalo Melchizedek's "Amennti"
and, most importantly, manipulative and tyrannical "gods and
goddesses" who pull the strings from far behind the scenes.

"The priests and the people knew nothing of this, however.
For the god manifested exceptional favour; as a new god must
do, or how shall he establish his position?"

Indeed, is this not precisely what we are witnessing today?
Although I found the above quote immensely significant in terms
of our own present-day "equinox of the [alien] gods," the very
best I could offer in commentary would be a severe injustice to
the profundity of this incredible tale.

Enjoy. And learn!

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ACROSS THE GULF
by Aleister Crowley

CHAPTER I

AT last the matter comes back into my mind.

It is now five years since I discovered my "stele" at Bulak,
but not until I obtained certain initiation in the city of
Benares last year did the memory of my life in the Twenty-Sixth
Dynasty when I was prince and priest in Thebai begin to return.
Even now much is obscure; but I am commanded to write, so that
in writing the full memory may be recovered. For without the
perfect knowledge and understanding of that strange life by
Nilus I cannot fully know and understand this later life, or
find that Tomb which I am appointed to find, and do that therein
which must be done.

Therefore with faith and confidence do I who was -- in a
certain mystical sense -- the Priest of the Princes, Ankh-f-na-
khonsu, child of Ta-nech, the holy and mighty one, and of Bes-na-
Maut, priestess of the Starry One, set myself to tell myself the
strange things that befell me in that life.

Thus.

At my birth Aphruimis in the sign of the Lion was ascending,
and in it that strange hidden planet that presides over darkness
and magic and forbidden love. The sun was united with the
planet of Amoun, but in the Abyss, as showing that my power and
glory should be secret, and in Aterechinis the second decanate of
the House of Maat, so that my passion and pleasure should likewise
be unprofance. In the House of Travel in the Sign of the Ram was
the Moon my sweet lady. And the wise men interpreted this as a
token that I should travel afar; it might be to the great temple
at the source of mother Nile; it might be...

Foolishness! I have scarce stirred from Thebai.

Yet have I explored strange countries that they knew not of:
and of this also will I tell in due course.

I remember -- as I never could while I lived in Khemi-land --
all the minute care of my birth. For my mother was of the
oldest house in Thebes, her blood not only royal, but mixed with
the divine. Fifty virgins in their silver tissue stood about
her shaking their sistrons, as if the laughter of the Gods
echoed the cries of the woman. By the bed stood the Priest of
Horus with his heavy staff, the Phoenix for its head, the prong
for its foot. Watchful he stood lest Sebek should rise from the
abyss.

On the roof of the palace watched the three chief astrologers
of Pharaoh with their instruments, and four armed men from the
corners of the tower announced each god as it rose. So these
three men ached and sweated at their task; for they had become
most anxious. All day my birth had been expected; but as Toum
drew to His setting their faces grew paler than the sky; for
there was one dread moment in the night which all their art had
failed to judge. The gods that watched over it were veiled.

But it seemed unlikely that Fate would so decide; yet so they
feared that they sent down to the priest of Thoth to say that
he must at all costs avoid the threatening moment, even if the
lives of mother and child should pay for it; and still the
watchmen cried the hour. Now, now! cried the oldest of the
astrologers as the moment grew near -- now! Below in answer
the priest of Thoth summoned all his skill.

When lo! a rumbling of the abyss. The palace reeled and fell;
Typhon rose mighty in destruction, striding across the skies.
The world rocked with earthquake; every star broke from its
fastening and trembled.

And in the midst lo! Bes-na-Maut my mother; and in her arms
myself, laughing in the midst of all that ruin. Yet not one
living creature took the slightest hurt! But the astrologers
rent their robes and beat their faces on the ground; for the
dread moment, the Unknown Terror, had gone by; and with it I had
come to light.

In their terror, indeed, as I learnt long after, they sent
messengers to the oldest and wisest of the priests; the High-
priest of Nuit, who lived at the bottom of a very deep well, so
that his eyes, even by day, should remain fixed upon the stars.

But he answered them that since they had done all that they
could, and Fate had reversed their design, it was evident that
the matter was in the hands of Fate, and that the less they
meddled the better it would be for them. For he was a brusque
old man -- how afterwards I met him shall be written in its
place.

So then I was to be brought up as befitted one in my station,
half-prince, half-priest. I was to follow my father, hold his
wand and ankh, assume his throne.

And now I begin to recall some details of my preparation for
that high and holy task.

Memory is strangely fragmentary and strangely vivid. I
remember how, when I had completed my fourth month, the priests
took me and wrapped me in a panther's skin, whose flaming gold
and jet-black spots were like the sun. They carried me to the
river bank where the holy crocodiles were basking; and there
they laid me. But when they left me they refrained from the
usual enchauntment against the evil spirit of the crocodile; and
so for three days I lay without protection. Only at certain
hours did my mother descend to feed me; and she too was silent,
being dressed as a princess only, without the sacred badges of

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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:13:53 GMT

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her office.

Also in the sixth month they exposed me to the Sun in the
desert where was no shade or clothing; and in the seventh month
they laid me in a bed with a sorceress, that fed on the blood of
young children, and, having been in prison for a long time, was
bitterly an-hungered; and in the eighth month they gave me the
aspic of Nile, and the royal Uraeus serpent, and the deadly
snake of the south country, for playmates; but I passed
scatheless through all these trials.

And in the ninth month I was weaned, and my mother bade me
farewell, for never again might she look upon my face, save in
the secret rites of the Gods, when we should meet otherwise than
as babe and mother, in the garment of that Second Birth which we
of Khemi knew.

The next six years of my life have utterly faded. All that I
can recall is the vision of the greatness of our city of Thebai,
and the severity of my life. For I lived on the back of a horse,
even eating and drinking as I rode; for so it becometh a prince.
Also I was trained to lay about me with a sword, and in the
use of the bow and the spear. For it was said that Horus -- or
Men Tu, as we called him in Thebai -- was my Father and my God.
I shall speak later of that strange story of my begetting.

At the end of seven years, however, so great and strong had I
waxen that my father took me to the old astrologer that dwelt in
the well to consult him. This I remember as if it were but
yesterday. The journey down the great river with its slow days!
The creaking benches and the sweat of the slaves are still in
my ears and my nostrils. Then swift moments of flying foam in
some rapid or cataract. The great temples that we passed; the
solitary Ibis of Thoth that meditated on the shore; the crimson
flights of birds; -- but nothing that we saw upon the journey
was like unto the end thereof. For in a desolate place was the
Well, with but a small temple beside it, where the servants --
they too most holy! of that holy ancient man might dwell.

And my father brought me to the mouth of the well and called
thrice upon the name of Nuit. Then came a voice climbing and
coiling up the walls like a serpent, "Let this child become
priestess of the Veiled One!"

Now my father was wise enough to know that the old man never
made a mistake; it was only a question of a right interpretation
of the oracle. Yet he was sorely puzzled and distressed, for
that I was a boy child. So at the risk of his life -- for the
old man was brusque! -- he called again and said "Behold my son!"

But as he spoke a shaft of sunlight smote him on the nape of
the neck as he bend over the well; and his face blackened, and
his blood gushed forth from his mouth. And the old man lapped
up the blood of my father with his tongue, and cried gleefully
to his servants to carry me to a house of the Veiled One, there
to be trained in my new life.

So there came forth from the little house an eunuch and a
young woman exceeding fair; and the eunuch saddled two horses,
and we rode into the desert alone.

Now though I could ride like a man, they suffered me not; but
the young priestess bore me in her arms. And though I ate meat
like a warrior, they suffered me not, but the young priestess
fed me at her breast.

And they took from me the armour of gilded bronze that my
father had made for me, scales like a crocodile's sewn upon
crocodile skin that cunning men had cured with salt and spices;
but they wrapped me in soft green silk.

So strangely we came to a little house in the desert, and
that which befell me there is not given me of the gods at this
time to tell; but I will sleep; and in the morning by their
favour the memory thereof shall arise in me, even in me across
these thousands of years of the whirling of the earth in her
course.

CHAPTER II

SO for many years I grew sleek and subtle in my woman's
attire. And the old eunuch (who was very wise) instructed me in
the Art of Magic and in the worship of the Veiled One, whose
priestess was I destined.

I remember now many things concerning those strange rituals,
things too sacred to write. But I will tell of an adventure
that I had when I was nine years of age.

In one of the sacred books it is written that the secret of
that subtle draught which giveth vision of the star-abodes of
Duant, whose sight is life eternal in freedom and pleasure among
the living, lieth in the use of a certain little secret bone
that is in the Bear of Syria. Yet how should I a child slay
such an one? For they had taken all weapons from me.

But in a garden of the city (for we had now returned unto a
house in the suburbs of Thebai) was a colony of bears kept by a
great lord for his pleasure. And I by my cunning enticed a
young bear-cub from its dam, and slew it with a great stone.
Then I tore off its skin and hid myself therein, taking also its
jaw and sharpening the same upon my stone. Then at last the old
she-bear came searching for me, and as she put down her nose to
smell at me, taking me for her cub, I drove my sharpened bone
into her throat.

I struck with great fortune; for she coughed once, and died.

Then I took her skin with great labour; and (for it was now
night) began to return to my house. But I was utterly weary and
I could no longer climb the wall. Yet I stayed awake all that
night, sharpening again upon my stone the jaw-bone of that bear-
cub; and this time I bound it to a bough that I tore off from a
certain tree that grew in the garden.

Now towards the morning I fell asleep, wrapped in the skin of
the old she-bear. And the great bear himself, the lord of the
garden, saw me, and took me for his mate, and came to take his
pleasure of me. Then I being roused out of sleep struck at his
heart with all my strength as he rose over me, and quitting my
shelter ran among the trees. For I struck not home, or struck
aslant. And the old bear, sore wounded, tore up the skin of his
mate; and then, discovering the cheat, came after me.

But by good fortune I found and wedged myself into a narrow
pylon, too deep for him to reach me, though I could not go
through, for the door was closed upon me. And in the angle of
the door was an old sword disused. This was too heavy for me to
wield with ease; yet I lifted it, and struck feebly at the claws
of the bear. So much I wounded him that in his pain he dropped
and withdrew and began to lick his paws. Thus he forgot about
me; and I, growing bolder, ran out upon him. He opened his
mouth; but before he could rise, I thrust the sword down it. He
tossed his head; and I, clinging to the sword-hilt, was thrown
into the air, and fell heavily upon my shoulder. My head too
struck the ground; and I lay stunned.

When I came to myself it was that a party of men and women had
thrown water in my face and uttered the spells that revive from
swoon. Beside me, close beside me, lay mine enemy dead; and I,

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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:13:53 GMT

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not forgetful of my quest, took the blade of the sword (for it
was snapt) and cut off the secret parts of the bear and took the
little bone thereof; and would have gone forth with my prize.
But the great lord of the house spake with me; and all his friends
made as if to mock at me. But the women would not have it; they
came round me and petted and caressed me; so that angry words
were spoken.

But even as they quarrelled among themselves, my guardian,
the old eunuch, appeared among them; for he had traced me to the
garden.

And when they beheld the ring of the holy ancient man the
astrologer they trembled; and the lord of the house threw a
chain of gold around my neck, while his lady gave me her own
silken scarf, broidered with the loves of Isis and Nephthys, and
of Apis and Hathor. Nor did any dare to take from me the little
bone that I had won so dearly; and with it I made the spell of
the Elixir, and beheld the starry abodes of Duant, even as it
was written in the old wise book.

But my guardians were ashamed and perplexed; for though I was
so sleek and subtle, yet my manhood already glowed in such deeds
as this -- how should I truly become the priestess of the Veiled
One?

Therefore they kept me closer and nursed me with luxury and
flattery. I had two negro slave-boys that fanned me and that
fed me; I had an harp-player from the great city of Memphis,
that played languorous tunes. But in my mischief I would
constantly excite him to thoughts of war and of love; and his
music would grow violent and loud, so that the old eunuch,
rushing in, would belabour him with his staff.

How well I recall that room! Large was it and lofty; and
there were sculptured pillars of malachite and lapis-lazuli and
of porphyry and yellow marble. The floor was of black granite;
the roof of white marble. On the Southern side was my couch, a
softness of exotic furs. To roll in them was to gasp for
pleasure. In the centre was a tiny fountain of pure gold. The
sunlight came through the space between the walls and the roof,
while on the other sides I could look through and up into the
infinite blue.

There was a great python that inhabited the hall; but he was
very old, and too wise to stir. But -- so I then believed -- he
watched me and conveyed intelligence to the old magus of the
well.

Now then the folly of my guardians appeared in this; that
while all day I slept and languished and played idly, at night
while they supposed I slept, I slept not. But I rose and gave
myself to the most violent exercises. First, I would go into my
bathing-pool and hold my breath beneath the water while I
invoked the goddess Auramoth one hundred times. Next, I would
walk on my hands around the room; I even succeeded in hopping on
one hand. Next, I would climb each of the twenty-four smooth
pillars. Next, I would practise the seventy-two athletic
postures. Also in many other ways I would strive to make my
strength exceeding great; and all this I kept most secret from
my guardians.

At last on one night I resolved to try my strength; so,
pushing aside the curtain, I passed into the corridor.
Springing upon the soldier that guarded me, I brought him to
the ground; and with my right hand under his chin, my left on
his right shoulder, and my knee at the nape of his neck, I tore
his head from his body before he could utter a cry.

I was now in my fifteenth year; but the deed was marvelous.
None suspected me; it was thought a miracle.

The old eunuch, distressed, went to consult the magus of the
well; whose answer was; "Let the vows of the priestess be taken!"

Now I thought this old man most foolish-obstinate; for I
myself was obstinate and foolish. Not yet did I at all
understand his wisdom or his purpose.

It often happens thus. Of old, men sent their priests to
rebuke Nile for rising -- until it was known that his rising was
the cause of the fertility of their fields.

Now of the vows which I took upon me and of my service as
priestess of the Veiled One it shall next be related.

CHAPTER III

IT was the Equinox of Spring, and all my life stirred in me.
They led me down cool colonnades of mighty stone clad in robes
of white broidered with silver, and veiled with a veil of fine
gold web fastened with rubies. They gave me not the Uraeus
crown, nor any nemyss, nor the Ateph crown, but bound my
forehead with a simple fillet of green leaves -- vervain and
mandrake and certain deadly herbs of which it is not fitting to
speak.

Now the priests of the Veiled One were sore perplexed, for
that never before had any boy been chosen priestess. For before
the vows may be administered, the proofs of virginity are sought;
and, as it seemed, this part of the ritual must be suppressed
or glossed over. Then said the High Priest: "Let it be that we
examine the first woman that he shall touch with his hand, and
she shall suffice." Now when I heard this, I thought to test
the God; and, spying in the crowd, I beheld in loose robes with
flushed face and wanton eyes, a certain courtesan well-known in
the city, and I touched her. Then those of the priests that
hated me were glad, for they wished to reject me; and taking
aside into the hall of trial that woman, made the enquiry.

Then with robes rent they came running forth, crying out
against the Veiled One; for they found her perfect in virginity,
and so was she even unto her death, as latter appeared.

But the Veiled One was wroth with them because of this, and
appeared in her glittering veil upon the steps of her temple.
There she stood, and called them one by one; and she lifted but
the eye-piece of her veil and looked into their eyes; and dead
they fell before her as if smitten of the lightning.

But those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the
goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph
through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. Now after
some days he that guarded the sacred goat of Khem died, and they
appointed her in his place. And she was the first woman that
was thus honoured since the days of the Evil Queen in the
Eighteenth Dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when
other women have not known them, that gave herself to gods and
beasts.

But now they took me to the pool of liquid silver -- or so
they called it; I suppose it was quicksilver; for I remember
that it was very difficult to immerse me -- which is beneath the
feet of the Veiled One. For this is the secret of the Oracle.
Standing afar off the priest beholds the reflection of her in
the mirror, seeing her lips that move under the veil; and this
he interprets to the seeker after truth.

Thus the priest reads wrongly the silence of the Goddess, and
the seeker understands ill the speech of the priest. Then come
forth fools, saying "The Goddess hath lied" -- and in their
folly they die.

While, therefore, they held me beneath the surface of the

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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:13:53 GMT

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pool, the High Priestess took the vows on my behalf saying:

"I swear by the orb of the Moon;
I swear by the circuit of the Stars;
I swear by the Veil, and by the Face behind the Veil;
I swear by the Light Invisible, and by the Visible Darkness;
On behalf of this Virgin that is buried in thy water;
To live in purity and service;
To love in beauty and truth;
To guard the Veil from the profane;
To die before the Veil"

And then came the awful penalty of failure.

I dare not recall half of it; yet in it were these words: Let
her be torn by the Phallus of Set, and let her bowels be
devoured by Apep; let her be prostituted to the lust of Besz,
and let her face be eaten by the god ----.

It is not good to write his name.

Then they loosed me, and I lay smiling in the pool. They
lifted me up and brought me to the feet of the goddess, so that
I might kiss them. And as I kissed them such a thrill ran
through me that I thought myself rapt away into the heaven of
Amoun, or even as Asi when Hoor and Hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her
womb, sprang armed to life. Then they stripped me of my robes,
and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood
ran from me into the pool. But the surface of the silver
swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took
this to be a sign of acceptance. So then they clothed me in the
right robes of a priestess of the Veiled One; and they put a
silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of
adoration. This I did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in
the darkness -- for night had fallen by this -- with a strange
starry light.

Thereby it was known that I was indeed chosen aright.

So last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me
on the high throne. One by one the priests came by and kissed
my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the
secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. And the banquet
waxed merry; for all the food was magically prepared. Every
beast that they slew was virgin; every plant that they plucked
had been grown and tended by virgins in the gardens of the temple.
Also the wine was spring water only, but so consecrated by the
holy priestesses that one glass was more intoxicating than a
whole skin of common wine. Yet this intoxication was a pure
delight, an enthusiasm wholly divine; and it gave strength, and
did away with sleep, and left no sorrow.

Last, as the first gray glow of Hormakhu paled the deep
indigo of the night, they crowned and clothed me with white
lotus flowers, and took me joyously back into the temple, there
to celebrate the mating ritual of awakening the Veiled One.

Thus, and not otherwise, I became priestess of that holy
goddess, and for a little while my life passed calm as the
unruffled mirror itself.

It was from the Veiled One herself that came the Breath of
Change.

On this wise.

In the Seventh Equinox after my initiation into her mystery
the High Priestess was found to fail; at her invocation the Veil
no longer glittered as was its wont. For this they deemed her
impure, and resorted to many ceremonies, but without avail. At
last in despair she went to the temple of Set, and gave herself
as a victim to that dreadful god. Now all men were much
disturbed at this, and it was not known at all of them what they
should do.

Now it must be remembered that the ceremonies are always
performed by a single priestess alone before the goddess, save
only at the Initiations.

The others also had found themselves rejected of her; and
when they learnt of the terrible end of the High Priestess, they
became fearful. Some few, indeed, concealed their failure from
the priests; but always within a day and a night they were found
torn asunder in the outer courts; so that it seemed the lesser
evil to speak truth.

Moreover, the affair had become a public scandal; for the
goddess plagued the people with famine and with a terrible and
foul disease.

But as for me, I wot not what to do; for to me always the
Veil glittered, and that brighter than the ordinary. Yet I said
nothing, but went about drooping and sorrowful, as if I were as
unfortunate as they. For I would not seem to boast of the
favour of the goddess.

Then they sent to the old Magus in the well; and he laughed
outright at their beards, and would say no word. Also they sent
to the sacred goat of Khem, and his priestess would but answer,
"I, and such as I, may be favoured of Her," which they took for
ribaldry and mocking. A third time they sent to the temple of
Thoth the Ibis god of wisdom. And Thoth answered them by this
riddle: "On how many legs doth mine Ibis stand?"

And they understood him not.

But the old High priest determined to solve the mystery, though
he paid forfeit with his life. So concealing himself in the
temple, he watched in the pool for the reflection of the
glittering of the Veil, while one by one we performed the
adorations. And behind him and without stood the priests,
watching for him to make a sign. This we knew not; but when it
fell to me (the last) to adore that Veiled One, behold! the Veil
glittered, and the old Priest threw up his arms to signal that
which had occurred. And the flash of the eye pierced the Veil,
and he fell from his place dead upon the priests without.

They buried him with much honour, for that he had given his
life for the people and for the temple, to bring back the favour
of the Veiled One.

Then came they all very humbly unto me the child, and besought
me to interpret the will of the Goddess. And her will was that
I alone should serve her day and night.

Then they gave me to drink of the Cup of the torment; and
this is its virtue, that if one should speak falsely, invoking
the name of the goddess, he shall burn in hell visibly before
all men for a thousand years; and that flame shall never be put
out. There is such an one in her temple in Memphis, for I saw
it with these eyes. There he burns and writhes and shrieks on
the cold marble floor; and there he shall burn till his time
expire, and he sink to that more dreadful hell below the West.
But I drank thereof, and the celestial dew stood shining on my
skin, and a coolness ineffable thrilled through me; whereat they
all rejoiced, and obeyed the voice of the Goddess that I had
declared unto them.

Now then was I alway alone with that Veiled One, and I must
enter most fully into that secret period of my life. For,
despite its ending, which hath put many wise men to shame, it
was to me even as an eternity of rapture, of striving and of
attainment beyond that which most mortals -- and they initiates
even! -- call divine.

Now first let it be understood what is the ritual of adoration
of our Lady the Veiled One.

First, the priestess performs a mystical dance, by which all
beings whatsoever, be they dogs or demons, are banished, so that

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