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Liber Aleph
Liber Aleph (1961), PDF p. 74
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LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI
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De Relatione Illusionum
(Of the Relation of Illusions)
F this will I speak further with thee, for here behold
a great Rock of Ignorance on the one Hand, and
on the other a Whirlpool of Error; in this Strait are
many Wrecks of Magick Ships. Knowest thou not that Riddle
of old, whether it be lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar or no?
Give therefore to the Body the Things of the Body, and to
the Mind the Things of the Mind.
Yet because of the
interior Harmony of all Things that proceedeth from their
Original One Nature, there is Action and Reaction of the
one upon the other, as I have already set forth in this mine
Epistle. But Law is universal, and between these two Kinds
of Illusion there is an ordered Proportion, and it is proper to
thy Science to delimit and describe this Law of Interaction,
for to deny it wholly (as to extend it to Infinity) is Folly, born
of Ignorance, Idleness, and Incapacity to observe Fact.
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