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1913 · PDF PAGE 22

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH I WINDLESTRAWS The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods. This Reason and Law is the Bond of the Great Lie. Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations. There is no Silence in that Abyss: for all that men call Silence is Its Speech. This Abyss is also called ‘ Hell,’ and ‘The Many.’ Its name is ‘Consciousness,’ and ‘The Universe,’ among men. But THAT which neither is silent, nor speaks, rejoices therein.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 9

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH H OYK ETI KE@AAH O!+ THE FIRST TRIAD WHICH IS GOD I AM. I utter The Word. I hear The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.? 7

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1913 · PDF PAGE 78

The Book of Lies

Wilt Thou endure unto The End, O FRATER PERDURABO, O Lamp in The Abyss? Thou hast the Keystone of the Royal Arch; yet the Apprentices, instead of making bricks, put the straws in their hair, and think they are Jesus Christ! O sublime tragedy and comedy of THE GREAT WORK!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 56

The Book of Lies

…s and their ad- ministration; it concerneth none below the grade of Exempt Adept, and such an one only by command. Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord, let men seek by experiment, and not by Questionings.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 70

The Book of Lies

…t there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake! The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted! Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay! Then, wind the Mort!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 66

The Book of Lies

…tion! Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say. Neglect not the dawn-meditation!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 23

The Book of Lies

…Husband and Wife, but it is not so. The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the Annihilation of the All. Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is The Way. The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan. How infinite 1s the distance from This to That ! Yet Allis Here and Now. Nor is there any 19

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1913 · PDF PAGE 57

The Book of Lies

…he Wind of the mind arises the turbulence?! called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Uni- verse. The Stars are but thistles in that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd ina world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. See! five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V. V. V.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 95

The Book of Lies

… I an hermit, how could I support The pain of consciousness, the curse of thought? Even were I THAT, there still were one sore spot— The Abyss that stretches between THAT and NOT. Still, the first step is not so far away:—

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1913 · PDF PAGE 101

The Book of Lies

… of Destiny complete, mayst thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.| And lo! thou art past through the Abyss,

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