# Mother of Harlots
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>>##### Type
>>###### <span class="info"><font color="#81799">Book</font></span>
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>>##### Date
>>###### <span class="info"><font color="#81799">25th of June, 2026</font></span>
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>>##### Session
>>###### <span class="info"><font color="#81799">[[Session 0]]</font></span>
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>summary
>[!card|fieldnote poem]
>The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
>and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
>betrothed to misery and deceit with eyes through her veil of malice,
>having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication,
>and upon her forehead was a name written in mystery,
>the Dutchess, and the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
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>###### 1
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> >[!card|fieldnote poem]
> >Nolite diligere mundum neque ea quae in mundo sunt.
> >Si quis diligit mundum, non est caritas Patris in eo.
> >Omne enim quod in mundo est — concupiscentia carnis, concupiscentia oculorum et superbia vitae — non est ex Patre, sed ex mundo est.
> >Et mundus transit et concupiscentia eius; qui autem facit voluntatem Dei, manet in aeternum.
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> >###### 2
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> >[!danger|card diletta] Translation
> >"Do not love the world or the things in the world.
> >If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
> >For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.
> >And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."
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> >[!card|fieldnote poem]
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> >Quidquid huius praesentis mundi homo diligit, animum eius gravat, eumque quasi deorsum trahit ac detinet, nec sinit ascendere.
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> >###### 3
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> >[!danger|card diletta] Translation
> >"Whatsoever thing of this present world a man loves, weighs down his mind, and as it were drags and holds it down, and will not let him come up."
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> >[!card|fieldnote poem]
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> >Vivens mortuus es;
> >nam etsi in carne vivis, non carni vivis.
> >Vide pro quonam horum affectuum vivas.
> >Tunc scies quantum mundo vivas,
> >et quantum ei mortuus sis.
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> >###### 4
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> >[!danger|card diletta] Translation
> >"While alive, you are dead,
> >for though living in the flesh, you do not live for the flesh.
> >See for which of these passions you are alive.
> >Then you will know how far you are alive to the world,
> >and how far you are dead to it"
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>[!cite|transcript poem]- Transcript
>##### Page One
>The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
>and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
>betrothed to misery and deceit with eyes through her veil of malice,
>having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication,
>and upon her forehead was a name written in mystery,
>the Dutchess, and the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
>
>##### Page Two
>>Translated from Infernal
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>Do not love the world or the things in the world.
>If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
>For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.
>And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
>
>##### Page Three
>>Translated from Infernal
>
>Whatsoever thing of this present world a man loves, weighs down his mind, and as it were drags and holds it down, and will not let him come up.
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>##### Page Four
>>Translated from Infernal
>
>While alive, you are dead,
>for though living in the flesh, you do not live for the flesh.
>See for which of these passions you are alive.
>Then you will know how far you are alive to the world,
>and how far you are dead to it