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ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 33 to your own Mince Pie, and its Awful and Avenging Punitive Currants! But as I say, your alleged husband trains neither his child nor his moustache; and I will contend with him, I will fight and over come him; yea, I will inflict upon him my celebrated essay upon Truth—and he shall never rise againl It is written in the manner of Immanuel Kant? Ay, but of Immanuel Kant in bed with Bessie Bellwood. The hands are the hands of Schopenhauer, but the voice is the voice of Arthur Roberts. Listen to the Iataka, 0 child of wonder and the innocent eyes, and if you yell you will be deposited in the coal-hole. Superlativer Honoured Fratres and Sorores of the Order of The Tin Sunset-— compare Charles Baudelaire our Lord !—assist me to open the temple —my mouth, Mrs. Bones—Mouth is part of body, and body is Temple (Colossians, iv, 15), you may say I need no assistance—in the Grade of Ten equals One and don't you forget it! [Readsfrom MS.] noel An essay upon Truth by the boy O.M., Member of the Order of the A:‘: A:': To the first paragraph of “Ascension Day” (dearly beloved brethren), it is written as a Fingerpost—and worthy is it to be graven with a needle upon the eye-comers so that whoso would be warned should be warned! “What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; but Crowley waits for an answer.” He did more than wait: he took active measures to discover; and though an answer in the Key of Affirmation would, in its very exordium, beggar human language, yet we may do a certain amount to destroy some of the minor fallacies that obscure the vision of our weaker brethren, not, alas! veiling their eyes from Truth, but from the 1 The views in this essay have been deliberately left as they were originally written on 18th December. 1906, by Aleister Crowley. The discussion which follows represents with great wential fidelity the actual argument which was held after its perusal on Christmas Day. The stage directions in the essay represent the facts. D