which I shall take up again after the present and pressing bitter necessity upon me — undiminished — I, so-and-so, child of so-and-so, by God's unalterable decree, euē uia eēi aō eiau iua ieō; since it is not possible for me, born a mortal, to rise together with the gold-gleaming radiances of the immortal brightness, ōēu aeō ēua eōē uae ōiae;

The initiate strikes a bargain with his own soul. The power that is stepping aside he will take up again — metaparalḗmpsomai, future tense, a promissory note — undiminished (achreokópēton, a commercial word: not docked, not short-changed), once the “bitter necessity” of this hour has passed. Into that legal-sounding clause drops the blank again, ho deîna, hòn hē deîna, so-and-so son of so-and-so: the cosmic contract has a line for your name. Then the reason, and it is a humble one for a magician: it is not possible for me, born a mortal, to rise together with the golden flashings of the immortal brightness. He cannot ascend on his own terms; the human simply cannot keep company with that light. The vowel-strings on either side are the seal on the decree — the sound of the necessity being pronounced unalterable, the way a name of power ratifies what the words have said.