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The Book of Lies
The Book of Lies (1913), PDF p. 64
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KE@AAH MF
BUTTONS AND ROSETTES
The cause of sorrow is the desire of the One
to the Many, or of the Many to the One.
This also is the cause of joy.
But the desire of one to another is all of sorrow3;
its birth is hunger, and its death satiety.
The desire of the moth for the star at least
saves him satiety.
satiable even for the finite; thus at The End
shalt thou devour the finite, and become the
infinite.
Be thou more greedy than the shark, more full
of yearning than the wind among the pines.
The weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiated
pilgrim stops.
The road winds uphill: all law, all nature
must be overcome.
Do this by virtue of THAT in thyself before
which law and nature are but shadows.
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