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The Book of Lies

The Book of Lies (1913), PDF p. 117

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NOTES 1. Silence. Nuit, O; Hadit,.; Ra-Hoor-Khuit, I. . The Unbroken, absorbing all, is called Darkness. 3. Fourteen letters. Quid Voles Illud Fac. Q.V.I.F. 196=14?, . They cause all men to worship it. . Masters of the Temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6 (=1+2-+ 3). . These are not eight, as apparent; for Lao-tze counts as O. . The legend of ‘* Christ” is only a corruption and perversion of other legends. Especially of Dionysus : compare the account of Christ before Herod/ Pilate in the Gospels, and of Dionysus before Pentheus in the Bacchae. . O, the last letter of Perdurabo, is Naught. . 1001=11 21-13). The Petals of the Sahasrara- cakkra. . JOV=I10I, the Egg of Spirit in equilibrium between the Pillars of the Temple. . This chapter must be read in connection with Wagner’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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