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The Book of Lies.
The Book of Lies.
]שנועש
ΟΡ?
THE ΑΕΗ;
The wm is broken up.
There is Knowledge.
Knowledge is Relation.
These fragments axe Creation.
The bxoken manifesls Light}
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Tm: SECOND TRIAD wmcu rs GOD
THE ?”הטנוסTRIAD
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preparing
Wavcring: flowing: flashing.
Stability: ?טפשמהמ
THE OYSTER?
PEACHES?
CAVIAR?
THE DINOSAURS
None are They whose number is Sim‘ else
were they six indeed,
SevenE are these Six that live not in the City
et me Pymniids, under rhe Night of Pan.
There was .₪-?ןבס
There was Sidnnnhn.
There was Krishna.
There was Tnhnri.
There was Mosheh.
There was Dionysus.’
There was Mahmud.
Bin the Seveneh rnen called ??םתמשש
fer enduring unto The End, at The End was
Naught to endure.s
Amen.
mum !!
STEEPED HORSEHAIR
Mind is a disease of semen.
All that a mn is ox may be is hidden "πω".
Bodily functions are parts of the machine;
silent, unless in dis-ease.
But mind, nem at ease, םמצע:!»? ' ι.’
This I persisleth not, posted: not (blough
gensmians, ןובשחב:? momenfly, finally is
dead.
Thercfole is man only himself when last to
himself in The cnmming,
!}םושש e?
THE BRANKS?
WINDLESTRAWS?
THE GLOVV-WORM?
Concerning the Holy Thneein-Nnughh
Ναί:, Hadil, Ra—Heor-Khuit, are only lo be
understood by the Master uf me Ten-pie,
They are above The Abyss, and contain all
contradiction in themselves.
Below lhein is a seeming dnslily of Chaos and
Babalon; (has: axecalled Fati-sund Mother,
but it is not se. They axe called Brother and
Sislex, 11111 11 15 not so, They we called
Husband and Wife, but 11 is not so.
The xeflection ofAll is Pan: lhe Niglu of Pan
is xhe Annihilnlion nr 1118 All.
Cast down through The Abyss is me Ligm,
the Rosy Cross, the 111511118 at Union that
deslxoys, that is The Way. The Rosy Class
is the Ambussadox of Pan.
How infinile is me distance from This ω That!
Ye! All is Here and Now. Nnr is there any
!9
There oi Then; fox all that is, what is in
but :: manifestation, that is, a pm, Ihalis,
a falsehood, of THAT which is not?
Yet THAT which is not neither is nor is not
That which is !
THE DRAGON-FLIES?
10 is the cry of [he lower as ΟΙ οΠΙ-ιε higher.
In figuxes they an: 1001 ;” in letters they are
Joy. w
Fox when 511 is equilibrated, when all 35 beheld
}111111 111, there is joy, joy, joy nm
1111110111
ONION-FEELINGS
The ?טפשמבis lhe Practical Joke o( ?!ונס
General at lhe Expense of lhe Palliculai,
quolh FRATER PERDURABO, and
laughed,
But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeing
the Universal Soxrow.
Those next. lo them laughed, seeing ihe Uni-
versa! yoke,
Below these cenain disciples wepl.
Then certain laughed,
Olbers nexi wepl.
Others next laughed.
Next others wepL
Next others laughed.
Last came those lhal wepl because lhey could
not see the Jake. nnd those that laughed
lest they should he thought ποι ω see lhe
joke, and thought il safe to acl like
FRATER PERDURABO.
But lhough FRATER PERDURABOlangl-led
openly, He also :! the same time wept
secretly; and in Himself He neither laughed
no: wept.
אשdid He mean what He said.?
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ IE
THE GUN-BARREL
Mighty and erec! is (his Win of mine, this
Pyramid oi fire whoss summi: is lost in
Heaven, Upon it have i bumcd me corpse
oi my desires,
Mighty and erect is this ?»ונמאof my wm.
The seed thereof is Thai which I have
borne within me from ?!!!טומהמand it is
los! within the Body oi Our Lady oi the
Stas.
I am not !; I am but an hollow lube ω bring
down Fire from Henven‘
Mighty and mhweiious is this Weakness, this
Heaven which ?»!טשפשme into Her Womb,
this Dome which hideth, which absorbed},
Ms,
This is The Night "₪86- ?טוגIam lost, the Love
through which ! am no longa I.
[-ןטפשמו ΙΣ?
THE STAG-BEETLE?
Death implies change nnd individuality; ir
thon be THAT which hath no person, which
is beyond me changing, even beyond change-
lessness, what hasl thon to do with death?
The hinh of individuality is ecstasy; so also
is its death.
ln love the individualily is slain; who Ioves
not love?
Love death therefoxe, and long { ?»!;םשor it.
Die Daily.
[-!}עסשה ΙΖ?
THE SWAN n?
DEWDROPS?
SAMSON
THE DESPOT
The waiteis oi the hest eatiug-huuses mael:
the whole world; they estimate every elient
at his proper value.
This I know certainly, because they always
[ ?ןוסבme with profound respect. Thus they
have tinttered me into praising them thus
publicly,
Yet it is true; and they have this insight he-
cause they serve, and because they eau have
no personal interest in the attairs or those
whom they serve.
An absolute monui-ch would be absolutely
wise and good.
But no man is strong enough to have no
interest. Thexeforc the best king would be
Pure Chance.
Ιι is Pure Chanoe that («195 the Universe;
therefore, and only therefore, life is good.
!תפטעמKr (23)?
SKIDOO?
THE SORCERER
A Sorcerer hy the power or his magick had
subdued all things ?!סhimself.
Would he travel? He could fly through space
more swiftly man ?ןווסsms.
Would he eat, drink, and take his pleasure?
Thu: was none that did not instantly obey
his bidding.
In the whole system of ten million times ten
million spheres upon the two and twenty
million planes he had his desireu
And with all this he was but himself.
Alas!
₪/]ששג KH?
THE POLESTAR?
Love is all vinue, since the ס( ??ןמפושlove is
but love, mi the pain of love is but love,
Love taketh no head of that which is hat and
of that which is.
Absence ?שושתlove, and presente ?שושת
love.
Love ?!חסשתever from height to height of
ecstasy and {nilelh new,
The wings of love amp not with time, nor
slacken for life or for denth.
Love destroyeth self, mung self with that
which is not-self, so that Love ?ןוממו
All
and None in One.
!sitnotsoï. . . NoP. . .
Then thou art not Ios! in love; speak not of
love.
Love Alwainelduh: Love Alway Haldeneth.
.......
. . .
Hex mime.
May be: 1 ναίω it but to write
[חי/!}םשג ΚΘ?
JOHN-A-DREAMS?
THE MOUNTAINEER?
ΒΑΡΗΟΜΕΤ?
hare.
Love and Death are the greyhounds 11151 course
him,
God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure
in the sport.
This 15 the Comedy of Pan, that mun should
think he humeeh, while those hounds hum
him,
This is the Tragedy of Man when facing Love
and Dam he turns m ω. He is no mure
hare, but honn
There ut: ne 611151 comedies or tmgcdics.
Cease then to be Ihe mockery of God; in
snvngery or love and death live zhou and die!
VENUS OF MILO
Lire is as ugly and necessary as the famule
body.
Death is as baaulil‘ul and necessary as the
male body.
The soul is beyond male ...: female as it is
beyond We and Death.
Even as the ?ם"פממand the Veni axe but
diverse developments of One otgnn, so also
ate Life and Death but two phases of One
State. 50 also the Absoxnte and the Con-
dilioned are but forms of THAI:
What do I love? There is nu forms no being,
to which : do not give myself wholly up.
Take me, who will!
[-]טפשממ ΛΣ?
DRAGONS
Thought is the shadow of the eclipse oi Luna.
Samadhi is the shadow ofthe eclipse of 501.
The moon and the ?מממaxe the nun-ego and
the ego: the Sun is THAT‘
Both eclipses rue וטאשה:? both 3186246824-
ing me; (he ?!!!ןתשפitsellis Light.
ΚΕΦΑΔΗ ΛΗ
LAMBSKIN
Cowan, ?;אמסא
Tyle!
Sweax lo hele all.
This is the mystery.
Life!
Mind is the mim.
Slay mind.
Let the corpse of mind lie unburied on the
edge ?!ותואGreat Sea:
Dealh'
This is the mystery.
Tyle!
Cowan, skidoo!
!}טפשש ΛΘ?
ΤΗΕ LOOBY?
Only loobies find excellence in these wonis.
n is thinkable that A is nat-A ; to reverse
this is but to revert !0 the normal.
ץאby forcing the Main m accept? ןוסקא, ens?
ofwhich one set is absurdity, the other !"₪,?
:ι new function of brain is established.?
Vague and mysterious and all indefinite m
the contents or this ncw consciousness; yel
they nte somehow vital. By use they be-
come luminous.
"₪50:- סטגbucomcs Experience.?
This urts the laden-footed Soul to the Et.
puience m' THAT of which Reason is the
blasphemy.
But whhout !₪ Expeiiellce these words m
the Lies oh Lobby.
Yet a Looby ω thee, and a Booby to me, a
Balassius Ruby m GOD, may be!
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΛ
DUST-DEVILS?
MULBERRY TOPS
Black blood upon the alter! :₪1 πω msue of
angel wings above!
Black blood of [he sweet (ruit, [he bruised,
the violated 1115811815!!!- ?!)שפחוThe Wheel
a-spinning in the spire.
Death is the veil of Life, and Life of Death;
for both are Gods.
This is that which is written: “A feast for
Life, and uguale: feast fox Death !" in THE
BOOK OF THE LAW.
The blood is the life of lh: individual: offer
men blood !
“There is no grace: there is no guilt:
This is the Law: DOWHAT THOU ΜΠ : ”
ΜὁΜΕ RATHS”
The eaxly bird catches me Worm; and me
twelve-year old prosiiiuie attracts the am-
bassadori
Neglect not the dawnrmedilalion!
WARATAH-BLOSSOMS
TERRIER-WORK?
Doubt,
Doubt thyself.
Doubt even if thou doublest thyselli
Daub! all,
Doubt even if (hon doublest all.
It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious
doubt (hen: lay some deepest. certainty.
ο kill it! Slay the snake!
The horn of the Doubt-Geat be exalted!
Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss or
Mind, until thou unearth me fox THAT.
On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bxing
THAT co bay!
Then, wind the Mort!
!}שומח NA?
EAVES-DROPPINGS?
I
there: but this is all my mm, that w/m
!₪; haw: !₪; and !₪; may 1 ”gain?
! must have money to get to America.
0 Mage! Sage! Gauge thy Wage, or in the
Page of thine Age is written Rage!
0 my darling: We shenid not have spent
Ninety Pounds in that Three Weeks in
Paris:. .
..........
Slash the Breaks on thine arm
. . . .
₪1 a pole-
axe!
[-!}ששח NZ?
I lack LAYLAHi
"\\/1161635 lb: Mystic Grace?” says: thou?
Who told thee, man, that שמש,!? is no!
Nuit, and I Hadil?
I destroyed all things ; they me reborn in other
shapes.
ןgave up all fox One ; mis One nm. given up?
its Unity for all??
I [ ?טשפומDOG backwards ω find con;
now GOD barks
Think me not fallen because ! love LAYLAH,
and [₪ LAYLAH.
1 am the Master of the Universe; then give
me a heap ?»)ונמשin a but, and LAYLAH
naked! Amen.
[(M-MH ΞΒ
SIC TRANSEAT —
"Αι last lifted up mine eyes, and beheld;
1
and lo! the flames of violet were become as
tendrils of smoke, as mist ut sunset upon the
marsh-lands.
”And in the midst of [he moon-pool of silver
was me Lily of white and of gold. In this
Lily is uii honey, is. this my :₪ flowerelh
at me midnight. In this Liiy is au perfume:
in this Lily is all music. And it enfolded
me."
Thus the disciples that watched found a dead
body kneeling at the altar. Amen!
lumma EF
THE PRAYING MANTIS
“Say: God is One." This x obeyed: {ox ?ג
thousand and one limbs a night {or one
thousand nights and one did I alii:-n the
Unity‘
Bu! “night” only means ”;!- ?עמשוand
Unity and GOD are not worth even her
blemishes.
ΑΗΒ." is only sixty-six; but LAYLAH
con-mem up to Seven and Sevemy."
“Yea! the night shall cover all; the night
shall cover all."
ΚΕΦΑΔΗ Ez
SODOM-AFPLES
: have bought pleasant uiues, and thus soothed
my lack of 1-?םמשש
Light is my wallet, and my heart is also light;
and yet I know that the clouds will gathu
closer 101 the false clearing
The mixage will fade ; then will the desert he
lhirsliex than before
ο ye who dwell in the Dark Night 01 the Soul,
bewzue most of all or every hexald 0] the
Dawn!
ο ye who dwell in the City 01 the Pyramids
beneath the Night 01 PAN, remember that
ye shall see no more light but That or the
great fite 11111 shall consume you ausr m
ashes!
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ se
THE WAY ΤΟ SUCCEED—AND THE
WAY TO SUCK EGGS!
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[-ס ]טפשמ
BROOMSTICK—BABBLINGS
HASHED PHEASANT?
Shcmhamphorash! all hail, divided Name!
uxm it once, 0 ?שחנוover-rasit!—
The Univexse \vexe swallowed up in flame
᾽εγιωιιιτιᾖπψιωωευι !
CAREY STREET?
When NOTHING been-n2 conscious, it made
a bad bargain.
This consciousness acquired individuality: a
wmse hurgsin,
The Hermit asked for Iove; wolsl bargain of
an
And now he has let his ;311 go ω America, to
have “success" in “life”: blank los.
Is there no end to Ihis immortal ache
That haunts nit, haunts me sleeping ox awake?
π x had Lnyinh, how could 1 forget
Time, Age, and Death? lnsufl‘crablc rm:
?שטופI an hennit, how could x טקשמ:?
The pain of consciousness, lhe sum of
thought?
Even were 1 THAT, there siiii were
one sore εροι᾽
TheAbyssthatstretcliesbelweenTHAT
and ?םיסור
sun, thefirst step is not so far nwn
The Mauretania sails on Saturday!
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!שממו of?
PHAETON?
Ne,
Yes.
Perhaps.
ο !
Eye,
L
Hi !
v?
No.
Hail! all ye שמשת:? geldes], ?!»שאטופ
hoxses!
Ye shall surpass the planets in their courses
How? Not by speed, nox strength, nox power
ιο slay,
BM by the snam ?װןגןsucceeds me ΜΞ...
!!;/!}ם'גוג OZ?
טעומ.]
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[!\/!}םינג 0H?
WHEEL AND—W018!?
The Great Wheel or Samsai-as
The Wheel ?סוthe Law [Dhamma].
The Wheel or the Tam.
The Wheel of lhe Heavens.
The Wheel of Life.
All rhese Wheels he one; yer or all rhese the
Wheel or rhe ?םאסalone avails thee ooh.
seiously.
Meditate long and broad and deep, 0 man,
upon this Wheel, revolving ir in rhy mind!
Be lhis rhy (ask, lo see how each ₪4 springs
necessarily from euch other card. even in
due order [rom The Fool umo The Ten of
Coins,
Then, when lhou [5/ ?!}חטשthe Wheel olDesliny
complete, ?מפץפפthou perceive THAT Will
which rnoved it hrsl. [There is no sm or
hash]
And lo! lhou m past lhrough the Abyss.
!}םיגתמ oe?
BLACKTHORN?
LOUIS LINGG?
1 am not an םשמש:? in yam sense of the
word: your brain is too dense for any known
explosive to affect it.
1 am not an Anarchist in your sense of the
word: ?}םשPoiicemanietiooseonSociety !
While there exists the hurgess, the hnnring
man, or any man wilh ideals iess than
Shelley’sandself-disciplineltsslhanLoona’s
—in short, any man who rails far short of
MYSELF—I am against Anarchy, and for
i-‘endaiisrn,
Every “emancipalox” has enslaved the frem
!}םיעט m;?
BORTSCH?
THE AVALANCHE
Only through devotion to FRATER PER-
DURABO may this book be understood.
How much more mm should He devote Him-
self to AIWASS for the understanding ol
the Holy Books of SEAHMA?
Yet must he labour undexground etunally.
The sun is not for him, nor the flows-s, no:
the voices of the birds; {or heis past beyond
all these. Yea, verily, oft-times heis weary ;
it is well that me weight of ms Karma of
the Infinite is with him.
Therefore is he glad indeed; rox he hath finished
THE WORK; and the reward comm-rieth
him no whiz,
κΕΦΑΔΗ m:
BORBORYGMI
TAT?
Ex nihilo N, L H. I. L fit.
Ν. the Fire that twislelh itself and bumeth
like a scorpion,
L the unsullied (wax-flowing water.
H. the interpenetrating Spim, without and
within. [s not its name ABRAIIADABRA?
Ι. the unsullied ever-flowing air.
L. the green fertile earth.
Fierce axe (he Fires of the Universe, and on
their daggers they hold aloft the blending
heart of earum
Upon me eaxlh lies water, sensuous and ”?תא
Above the water hangs air; and «have air, but
also below fire—and in all—the fabric of all
being woven on Its invisible design, is
ΑΙΘΗΡ.
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ rlz
MANDARIN-MEALS
There is a dish of sharks’ fins and or sensing,
well se! in birds’ heus . . . oh!
Aïso there is ?גsohme most exquisite of Chow-
Chow.
These did I devise.
But I have never tasted anything to match the
GOLD BRICKS?
Teach us Your secret, Master! yap my Vel-wos.
Then for the hardness of their heaxls, and for
the sonness at their heads, i taught them
Magicka
But.......alas!
Teach us You real :ecrel, Master! how ω
become invisible, how ω aoquirc love, nnd
oh! beyond all, how io make geld.
But how much gold win you give me fax the
Secret of Infinite Riches?
Then said uie (memos: and most foolish:
Master, it is nothing; but here is nn hundred
thousand pounds,
This did I עגפמ:? ω accept, and whispered in
his ear ihis”₪;
A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MINUTE.
ש/]םתיג ne?
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT?
ןam annoyed aim: me number 89.?
this chapter.
That, too, is wise; {or since i am annoyed, ?ו
could not write even a reasonably decent lie
ש/!}שבוג PA?
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