The Book of Lies

KE®AAH & THE WOUND OF AMFORTAS” Vir-tus has become ‘‘ virtue.” The qualities which have made a man, a race, a city, a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty of failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves: yet in every zew code there is hope. Pro- vided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is fulfilled. The dead dog floats with the stream ; in puritan France the best women are harlots; in vicious England the best women are virgins. 76