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The Book of Lies
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The Book of Lies
KE@®AAH KA THE HAWK AND THE BLINDWORM This book would translate Beyond-Reason into the words of Reason. Explain thou snow to them of Andaman. The slaves of reason call this book Abuse-of- Language: they are right. Language was made for men to eat and drink, make love, do barter, die. The wealth of a language consists in its Abstracts; the poorest tongues have wealth of Concretes. Therefore have Adepts praised silence; at least it does not mislead as speech does. Also, Speech is a symptom of Thought. Yet, silence is but the negative side of Trut…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 132
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…o volumes.) Ios. The tale of Orpheus re-told in surpassingly beautiful lyrics. The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. 2s. The only book of its kind in which rational criticism has been combined with unimpeachable scholarship, and a profound knowledge of Cere- monial Magic, as practised to-day in the Secret Houses of Adepts. Rosa Mundi. 16s. Rosa Inferni. 16s, Rosa Coeli. 16s, Each of these three contain a lithograph from a water-colour of Auguste Rodin. Gargoyles. 35. 6d. This book contains Mr. Crowley’s finest lyrics. Konx om Pax. Ios. T…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 134
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…s words, it represents ‘an attempt to systematisealike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,’ and so far as any book can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed ; that is to say, it condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years. The book proper consists of a table of ‘Correspondences,’ and is, in fact, an attempt to reduce to a common denominator the symbolism of as many religious and magical systems as the author is acquainted …
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1913 · PDF PAGE 123
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ERRATA It seems absurd, as the whole book is a misprint: however— On Page 61, for ‘*‘ Themindor ” vead ‘* Ther- midor.” On Page 79, line 10, for ‘‘Be” read ‘‘ He.” NOTES, Page 12, for ““O=Vs” read ““O=\9.” Page 31, for ‘‘Mualtar” read ‘‘ Muattar.”’ Page 39, for ‘‘10” read ‘‘80.”
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…of Life, and Life of Death; for both are Gods. This is that which is written: ‘‘A feast for Life, and a greater feast for Death!” in THE BOOK OF THE LAW. The blood is the life of the individual: offer then blood!
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KE@®AAH ITA THE AVALANCHE Only through devotion to FRATER PER- DURABO may this book be understood. How much more then should He devote Him- self to AIWASS for the understanding of the Holy Books of P9EAHMA? Yet must he labour underground eternally. The sun is not for him, nor the flowers, nor
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LIBER CCCXXXIII THE BOOK OF LIES WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICA- TIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHT OF WHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break, break, break At the foot of thy stones, O Sea ! And I would that I could utter The thoughts that arise in me!” LONDON: WIELAND AND CO. 33 AVENUE STUDIOS, SOUTH KENSINGTON 1913
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…. Resemble all that surroundeth thee; yet be Thyself—and take thy pleasure among the living. This is that which is written—Lurk !—in The Book of The Law.
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1913 · PDF PAGE 126
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… should be said that the‘ Dedication’ is a poem ex- pressive of admiration of Swinburne, and the title- workis only one of many that the book contains. ‘ Jephthah ’ is, of course, a tragedy; ‘The Five Kisses’ comprises a series of lyrics of impassioned character, skilful technique, and real poetic frenzy. . From the power and earnestness of the book before us, we are inclined to favour his chances of the future.. He has shown at least the foot of Hercules. ”__Birming ham Gazette. The Mother’s Tragedy, etc. 55. ‘‘ He endeavours to grapple with t…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 129
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…arn- ing and satire. In light and quaint or graceful verse all philosophical systems are discussed and dismissed. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, ye) that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of the sceptic to a real knowledge, founded on I2I
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1913 · PDF PAGE 128
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…tic monotone of the Master (Swinburne).” This rare pamphlet is almost exhausted. As most people know, Berashith is the first word of the book of Genesis, and the essay contains a complete solu- tion of the Problem of Creation, which has baffled all brains less astute and profound than our author’s. The essay has since been reprinted with added references and elucidation of some of the more abstruse propositions ; this edition is, therefore, of interest only as an Z£ditio princeps. Ahab, etc. 55. A companion to ‘‘ Jezebel.” 150 copies printed. ‘…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 131
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…no further than its pages for example of how a change of abstract belief may break a civilization to pieces. Under the influence of this book earnest modern philosophers may, I think, begin to perceive the outlines of two vast and mystical philosophies, which if they were subtly and slowly worked out in two continents through many centuries, might possibly, under special cir- cumstances, make the East and West almost as different as they really are.”—G. K. CHESTERTON, Daily News. An exposure of the vile results of the existing social system, an…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 127
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… and the transfiguring power of the rhythms.”—New York Nation. Mr. G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to …
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1913 · PDF PAGE 133
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… who do not it must remain as obscure and ridicu- lous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of Flatland.”— 7zmes. 777, 10S. This book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the com- plete secret magical correspondences of the Golden Dawn and R.R. et A.C. It forms, in short, a com- plete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions …
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… Thereis life and vigour and realityin it, and a personality sincerely expressed in spite of what appears to be wilful eccentricities.” —Book- man. The Winged Beetle. ros. A collection of lyrical poems. ‘In the face of the whole horde of reviewers, critics, and in the face of the British public,I declare that Aleister Crowleyis among the first of living poets. It will not be many years before this factis generally recognized and duly appreciated. ‘Rosa Coeli’ and ‘Rosa Decidua ’ are two mag- nificent poems. The latteris ‘no tragedy of little te…
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…same way. Yet Mr. Crowleyis one of our few real poets. He has written thingsin ‘Ambergris’ which will never die. Some years ago a little book of verse appeared, called ‘Amphora,’ which being anony- 129 i
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