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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH IIB BORTSCH Witch-moon that turnest all the streams to blood, I take this hazel rod, and stand, and swear An Oath—beneath this blasted Oak and bare That rears its agony above the flood Whose swollen mask mutters an atheist’s prayer. What oath may stand the shock of this offence: Witch-moon of blood, eternal ebb and flow Of baffled birth, in death still lurks a change; Andall the leopards in thy woods that range, And all the vampires in their boughs that glow, Brooding on blood-thirst—these are not so strange And fierce as life’s unfailin…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 58

The Book of Lies

…Death; for both are Gods. This is that which is written: ‘‘A feast for Life, and a greater feast for Death!” in THE BOOK OF THE LAW. The blood is the life of the individual: offer then blood!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 60

The Book of Lies

… Bell. Now I begin to pray: Thou Child, Holy Thy name and undefiled! Thy reign is come: Thy will is done. Here is the Bread; here is the Blood. Bring me through midnight to the Sun! Save me from Evil and from Good! That Thy one crown of all the Ten Even now and here be mine. AMEN. fle puts the first Cake on the Fire of the Thurible. I burn the Incense-cake, proclaim These adorations of Thy name. fle makes them as in Liber Legis, and strikes again Eleven times upon the Bell. With the Burin he then makes upon his breast the proper sign. Behold th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 12

The Book of Lies

KE@®AAH B THE CRY OF THE HAWK Here is the Bread. Here is the Blood. Bring us through Temptation! Deliver us from Good and Evil! That Mine as Thine be the Crown of the Kingdom, even now. ABRAHADABRA. These ten words are four, the Name of the One.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 44

The Book of Lies

… Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so is consciousness a disorder of life. sense, without truth; so also is conscious- ness. Awake from dream, the truth is known:?!® awake from waking, the Truth is—The Unknown.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH MO WARATAH-BLOSSOMS blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulter- ous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion- Serpent.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 106

The Book of Lies

Hear then the Oath, witch-moon of blood, dread moon! Let all thy stryges and thy ghouls attend! He that endureth even to the end Hath sworn that Love’s own corpse shall lie at noon Even in the coffin of its hopes, and spend All the force won by its old woe and stress In now annihilating Nothingness, This chapter is called Imperial Purple and A Punic War.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 83

The Book of Lies

…be then sacrifices. The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn from the scheme of incarnation. The second, mixt with his life’s blood and eaten, illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the higher life. He then takes the Oath and becomes free— unconditioned—the Absolute. Burning up in the Flame of his Prayer, and born again—the Phoenix!

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