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1913 · PDF PAGE 58

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH MIT MULBERRY TOPS Death is the veil of Life, and Life of 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 11

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH A THE SABBATH OF THE GOAT O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan. TIAN: Duality: Energy: Death. Death: Begetting: the supporters of O! To beget is to die; to die is to beget. Cast the Seed into the Field of Night. Life and Death are two names of A. Kill thyself.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 29

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH I THE STAG-BEETLE The birth of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its death. In love the individuality is slain; who loves not love? Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. Die Daily.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 94

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH OF THE DEVIL, THE OSTRICH, AND THE ORPHAN CHILD in Thine Asana, death will relieve thee! Bite not, Zelator dear, but bide! Ten days didst thou go with water in thy belly? Thou shalt go twenty more with a firebrand at thy rump! Ay! all thine aspiration is to death: death is the crown of all thine aspiration. Triple is the cord of silver moonlight; it shall hang thee, O Holy One, O Hanged Man, O Camel - Termination- of - the - third - person - plural for thy multiplicity, thou Ghost of a Non-Ego! Could but Thy mother behold thee, O thou UN…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 49

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AE VENUS OF MILO Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also

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1913 · PDF PAGE 48

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AA THE SMOKING DOG"’ Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. There are no other comedies or tragedies. Cease then to be the mockery of God; in savagery of love and death live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 31

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH IH DEWDROPS Verily, love is death, and death is life to come. Man returneth not again; the stream floweth not uphill; the old life is no more; there is a new life that is not his. Yet that life is of his very essence; it is more He than all that he calls He, In the silence of a dewdrop is every tendency of his soul, and of his mind, and of his body; it is the Quintessence and the Elixir of his being. Therein are the forces that made him and his father and his father’s father before him. This is the Dew of Immortality. Let this go free, e…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 105

The Book of Lies

…tters 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 unfailing shower. These die, Yet time rebears them through eternity. 99

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1913 · PDF PAGE 95

The Book of Lies

…s. Is there no end to this immortal ache That haunts me, haunts me sleeping or awake? If I had Laylah, how could I forget Time, Age, and Death? Insufferable fret! Were I an hermit, how could I support The pain of consciousness, the curse of thought? Even were I THAT, there still were one sore spot— The Abyss that stretches between THAT and NOT. Still, the first step is not so far away:—

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

The Book of Lies

… the negative side of Truth; the positive side is beyond even silence. Nevertheless, One True God crieth 2rzliu! And the laughter of the Death-rattle is akin.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 80

The Book of Lies

… THE WOUND OF AMFORTAS” Vir-tus has become ‘‘ virtue.” The qualities which have made a man, a race, a city, a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty of failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves: yet in every zew code there is hope. Pro- vided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is fulfilled. The dead dog floats with the stre…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 42

The Book of Lies

… Love moveth ever from height to height of ecstasy and faileth never. The wings of love droop not with time, nor slacken for life or for death. Love destroyeth self, uniting self with that which is not-self, so that Love breedeth All and None in One. Is it not sop... No?... Then thou art not lost in love; speak not of love. Love Alway Yieldeth: Love Alway Hardeneth. May be: I write it but to write Her name.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 119

The Book of Lies

…Arabic for night. 35. al] =x1+30+30+5=66. L+A+I1+L+A+H =77, which also gives MZL, the Influence of the Highest, OZ, a goat, and so on. . Death is said by the Arabs to ride a camel. The Path of Gimel (which means camel) leads from Tiphereth to Kether, and its Tarot Trump is the ‘* High Priestess.” . UNT, Hindustani for camel. J.e. Would that BABALON might look on thee with favour. . These eggs being speckled, resemble the wandering mind referred to. . ISVD, the foundation scil. of the Universe=10=P, the letter of Mars. . P. also means ‘‘a mouth.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 64

The Book of Lies

… 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 TH…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 139

The Book of Lies

… however to draw attention to one of the two fine plays that hap- pen to be written in prose. ‘ The Ghouls’ is possibly the most ghastly death-dance in English literature. If Oscar Wilde had written it (but he could not have) every one would know it. It is the very pith and marrow of terror. Cynical it may be, indecent it may be, but I defy the lord of dreams to send any more plutonian nightmare to haunt our mortal sleep.” —Poetry Review. There is no more room to add all the other

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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Book of Lies

…e him king. . Oe=Island, a common symbol of Nibbana. . PS Ain. PY Ayin. . Scil. of Shiva. . Cf. Bagh-i-Mualtar for all this symbolism. . Death=Nun, the letter d¢fore O, means a fish, a symbol of Christ, and also by its shape the Female principle. II2

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