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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of
those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return.
In the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed Old
Ones in dreams, but then something happened. The great stone city
R'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the
waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through
which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse.
But memory never died, and the high-priests said that the city
would rise again when the stars were right. Then came out of the
earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full
of dim rumours picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms.
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