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1913 · PDF PAGE 23

The Book of Lies

…ot 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 76

The Book of Lies

…ce is wrong. For not until the PLACE is perfected by a T saith he PLACET. The Rose uncrucified droppeth its petals; without the Rose the Cross is a dry stick. Worship then the Rosy Cross, and the Mystery of Two-in-One. And worship Him that swore by His holy T that One should not be One except in so far as it is Two. Iam glad that LAYLAH is afar; no doubt clouds love.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 43

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH KO THE SOUTHERN CROSS cover me! Let me be no more! Let me be Thine; let me be Thou; let me be neither Thou nor I; let there be love in night and night in love. N. O. X. the night of Pan; and Laylah, the night before His threshold!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 39

The Book of Lies

…ETAPXAI EI AEZIA CYNOXEC ETTAPICTEPA AAIMONEC ®AETEI TAP TIEPI MOY O ACTHP TQN TENTE KAI EN THI CTHAHI O ACTHP TON EZ ECTHKE. Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst begin.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 57

The Book of Lies

…- 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 133

The Book of Lies

… which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sailin the Company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. Itis one of the most suggestive definitions of KONX—the L.U.X. of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross—that it transcends a…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 121

The Book of Lies

… 40. 41. 42. Skidoo! The Hawk and the Blindworm. THE STAR RUBY. The Elephant and the Tortoise. The Sorcerer. The Pole-Star. The Southern Cross. John-a-Dreams. The Garotte. The Mountaineer. BAPHOMET. The Smoking Dog. Venus of Milo. THE STAR SAP. PHIRE. Dragons. Lambskin. The Looby. The HIMOG. Corn Beef Hash. Dust- Devils. - Mulberry Tops. . THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 117

The Book of Lies

…’s ‘ Parsifal.” . O=VS, ‘The Devil of the Sabbath.” U=8, the Hierophant or Redeemer. T=Strength, the Lion. . T, manhood, the sign of the cross or phallus. UT, the Holy Guardian Angel; UT, the first syllable of Udgita, see the Upanishads. O, No- thing, or Nuit. IIIf

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Book of Lies

… mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to bear; I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to wear, My self-denial is as dross. O, Shu, that holdest up the sky, Hold up thy servant, lest he die!’ ** That our world-worn men of art should believe for a moment that moral salvation is possible and supremely important is an unmixed benefit. If Mr. Crowley and the new mystics think for one moment that an Egyptian desert is more mystic than an English meadow, that a palm…

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