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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Book of Lies

THE SECOND TRIAD WHICH IS GOD GOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Generation. GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature. GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony : con- sideration: the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart. THE THIRD TRIAD THE TENTH EMANATION The world.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 34

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH KA THE BLIND WEBSTER we create. Let us create nothing but GOD! That which causes us to create is our true father and mother; we create in our own image, which is theirs. Let us create therefore without fears; for we can create nothing that is not GOD.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AA THE SMOKING DOG"’ Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. There are no other comedies or tragedies. Cease then to be the mockery of God; in savagery of love and death live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 69

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH N THE VIGIL OF ST. HUBERT In the forest God met the Stag-beetle. ‘‘ Hold! Worship me!” quoth God. ‘‘For I am All- Great, All-Good, All-Wise The stars are but sparks from the forges of My smiths ‘Yea, verily and Amen,” said the Stag-beetle, ‘“all this do I believe, and that devoutly.” ‘*Then why do you not worship Me?” ‘Because lam realand you are only imaginary.” But the leaves of the forest rustled with the laughter of the wind. Said Wind and Wood: ‘They neither of them know anything!”

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1913 · PDF PAGE 84

The Book of Lies

…ings; they are reborn in other shapes. I gave up all for One; this One hath given up its Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 87

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH &F THE PRAYING MANTIS Unity and GOD are not worth even her blemishes. Al-lah is only sixty-six; but LAYLAH counteth up to Seven and Seventy. ‘*Yea! the night shall cover all; the night shall cover all.”

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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 82

The Book of Lies

…- solve this Naught-y Knot! O! Ay! this I and O—IO!—IAO! For I owe ‘*I” aye to Nibbana’s Oe.”8 I Pay—Pé, the dissolution of the House of God—for Pé comes after O—after Ayin that

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH MO WARATAH-BLOSSOMS blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulter- ous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion- Serpent.

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The Book of Lies

KE®@®AAH AT BAPHOMET A black two-headed Eagle is GOD; even a Black Triangle is He. In His claws He beareth a sword; yea, a sharp sword is held therein. This Eagle is burnt up in the Great Fire; yet not a feather is scorched. This Eagle is swallowed up in the Great Sea; yet nota feather is wetted. So flieth He in the air,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 54

The Book of Lies

… blasphemy. But without that Experience these words are the Lies of a Looby. Yet a Looby to thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius Ruby to GOD, may be!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 90

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH 20 THE WAY TO SUCCEED—AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS! This is the Holy Hexagram. Plunge from the height, O God, and interlock with Man! Plunge from the height, O Man, and interlock with Beast ! The Red Triangle is the descending tongue of grace; the Blue Triangle is the ascending tongue of prayer. This Interchange, the Double Gift of Tongues, the Word of Double Power—ABRAHA- DABRA!—is the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT WORK is ac- complished in Silence. And behold is not that Word equal to Cheth, that is Cancer, whose Sigil is 3? 86

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1913 · PDF PAGE 77

The Book of Lies

…ne ear: yea, I abhor birth, ululating lamentations of Night! Agony! Agony! the Light within me deeds veils; the song within me dumbness. God! in what prism may any man analyze my Light? Immortal are the adepts; and yet They die— They die of SHAME unspeakable; They die as the Gods die, for SORROW. 73

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1913 · PDF PAGE 55

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…fore the one colour that it is not. This Law, Reason, Time, Space, all Limita- tion blinds us to Truth. AJl that we know of Man, Nature, God, is just that which they are not; it is that which they throw off as repugnant. The HIMOG is only visible insofar as He is imperfect. Then are they all glorious who seem not to be glorious, as the HIMOG is All-glorious Within? It may be so. How then distinguish the inglorious and per- fect HIMOG from the inglorious man of earth? Distinguish not! But thyself Ex-tinguish: HIMOG art thou, and HIMOG shalt thou…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

The Book of Lies

…s a symptom of Thought. Yet, silence is but the negative side of Truth; the positive side is beyond even silence. Nevertheless, One True God crieth 2rzliu! And the laughter of the Death-rattle is akin.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH A CONSTANCY I was discussing oysters with a crony: GOD sent to me the angels DIN and DONI. «A man of spunk,” they urged, ‘‘ would hardly choose To breakfast every day chez Lapérouse.”’ “No!” I replied, ‘She would not do so, BUT Think of his woe if Lapérouse were shut! ‘*T eat these oysters and I drink this wine Solely to drown this misery of mine. ‘*Vet the last height of consolation’s cold: Its pinnacle is—not to be consoled! ‘¢And though I sleep with Jane and Eleanor I feel no better than I did before, ** And Julian only fixes in my mi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 129

The Book of Lies

…hina Paper, 21s. Handmade Paper, 5s. Mr. Marcel Schwob, the great French scholar, critic and poet, writes: ‘‘ A little masterpiece.” The God Eater. 2:5. 6d. A satirical drama, teaching that whatever may be the foundation of a religion, we must judge it by its present state. “ The play awakens a curious sense of sympathy. ... —Glasgow Herald. The Star and the Garter. 1s. A popular edition of the greatest love-poem of modern times. The private edition of this wonder- ful poem sold out before publication, and thereis not a single copy to be had at…

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…ather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at ‘“‘Au Chien qui Fume.” - HIMOG is a Notariqon of the words Holy Illumi- nated Man Of God. . 2.@., Food suitable for Americans, . Turbulence is here specially used to suggest ‘‘tour- billon.” . ‘The méme raths outgrabe.”—Lewis Carrol. But ‘“‘méme” is Parisian slang for a young girl, and ‘‘rathe” O. E. for early. ‘The rathe prim- rose.” —Milton. . L=30, O=70, V=6, E=5=111. . A=1, M=40, O=70=111. . The Trowel is shaped like a diamond or Yoni. L=30, A=1, P=80=111. . N=s0, I=10, N=50, A=1=111. . Ch…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 136

The Book of Lies

… literally ablaze with the white heat of ecstasy, the passionate desire of the overman to- wards his ultimate consummation—re-union with God.”—Occuli Review. The High History of Good Sir Palamedes, the Saracen Knight, and of his fol- lowing of the Questing Beast. 55. net. An account of the Mystic Quest. “¢. , . Noble and beautiful poem.”—Occult Re- VIEW. *‘Ttis impossible to read ... without being impressed by the essential truth and beauty of the author’s spirit . .. written not as tasks are written, but from the fulness of the heart, passiona…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 131

The Book of Lies

…f rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a commen hypothesis; for it is hated. ‘Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism... suffice for the moment to say that if this be indeed a true interpretation of the creed, as it is certainly a capable one, I need go no further than its pages for exa…

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