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1913 · PDF PAGE 75

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH NF TROUBLE WITH TWINS Holy, holy, holy, unto Five Hundred and Fifty Five times holy be OUR LADY of the STARS! Holy, holy, holy, unto One Hundred and Fifty Six times holy be OUR LADY that rideth upon THE BEAST! Holy, holy, holy, unto the Number of Times Necessary and Appropriate be OUR LADY Isis in Her Millions-of-Names, All-Mother, Genetrix- Meretrix ! Yet holier than all These to me is LAYLAH, yama all the way home—home? nay! but to the house of the harlot whom he loveth not. For it is LAYLAH that he loveth And yet who knoweth which is …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 50

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH Az THE STAR SAPPHIRE Then let him advance to the East, and make the Holy Hexagram, saying: PATER ET MATER UNUS DEUS ARARITA. Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Hexagram, and say: MATER ET FILIUS UNUS DEUS ARARITA. Let him go round to the West, make the Holy Hexagram, and say: FILIUS ET FILIA UNUS DEUS ARARITA. Let him go round to the North, make the Holy Hexagram, and then say: FILIA ET PATER UNUS DEUS ARARITA. 46

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1913 · PDF PAGE 24

The Book of Lies

… of Identity is but a lie. For there is no subject, and there is no predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either of these things. Holy, Holy, Holy are these Truths that I utter, knowing them to be but falsehoods, broken mirrors, troubled waters; hide me, O ovr Lady, in Thy Womb! for I may not it from me! Amen.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 108

The Book of Lies

… to FRATER PER- DURABO may this book be understood. How much more then should He devote Him- self to AIWASS for the understanding of the Holy Books of P9EAHMA? Yet must he labour underground eternally. The sun is not for him, nor the flowers, nor

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1913 · PDF PAGE 93

The Book of Lies

…ll those things the same! No! if creation did possess an aim (It does not.) it were only to make hash Of that most ‘‘high” and that most holy game, Shemhamphorash !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 40

The Book of Lies

…HE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISE Universe is poised: but the carapace of the Tortoise supports and covers all. This Tortoise is sixfold, the Holy Hexagram.?° These six and four are ten, 10, the One mani- fested that returns into the Naught un- manifest. The All-Mighty, the All-Ruler, the All- Knower, the All-Father, adored by all men and by me abhorred, be thou accursed, be thou abolished, be thou annihilated, Amen!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 90

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH 20 THE WAY TO SUCCEED—AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS! This is the Holy Hexagram. Plunge from the height, O God, and interlock with Man! Plunge from the height, O Man, and interlock with Beast ! The Red Triangle is the descending tongue of grace; the Blue Triangle is the ascending tongue of prayer. This Interchange, the Double Gift of Tongues, the Word of Double Power—ABRAHA- DABRA!—is the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT WORK is ac- complished in Silence. And behold is not that Word equal to Cheth, that is Cancer, whose Sigil is 3? 86

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1913 · PDF PAGE 76

The Book of Lies

…without the Rose the Cross is a dry stick. Worship then the Rosy Cross, and the Mystery of Two-in-One. And worship Him that swore by His holy T that One should not be One except in so far as it is Two. Iam glad that LAYLAH is afar; no doubt clouds love.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 94

The Book of Lies

… 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 UNT!*" The Infinite Snake Ananta that surroundeth the Universe is but the Coffin-Worm!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 125

The Book of Lies

…first place among the latter-day poets.” — Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 35. 6d. Delicate lyrics, illustrating the vague, yet holy aspirations of adolescence. s¢. . . We have read with admiration for its in- tense spirituality, as well as for its technical super- iorities, . .. this volume,in which we are sure of having heard an impressive and an original voice. The verse of ‘Songs of the Spirit’—essentiallyin- tricate, introspective if you like—is also free from obvious artifice and eccentricity, it is fiery and clear measured and e…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 60

The Book of Lies

He strikes Eleven times upon the 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 b…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 117

The Book of Lies

…he 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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1913 · PDF PAGE 118

The Book of Lies

…perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at ‘“‘Au Chien qui Fume.” - HIMOG is a Notariqon of the words Holy Illumi- nated Man Of God. . 2.@., Food suitable for Americans, . Turbulence is here specially used to suggest ‘‘tour- billon.” . ‘The méme raths outgrabe.”—Lewis Carrol. But ‘“‘méme” is Parisian slang for a young girl, and ‘‘rathe” O. E. for early. ‘The rathe prim- rose.” —Milton. . L=30, O=70, V=6, E=5=111. . A=1, M=40, O=70=111. . The Trowel is shaped like a diamond or Yoni. L=30, A=1, P=80=111. . N=s0,…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 136

The Book of Lies

…rit . .. written not as tasks are written, but from the fulness of the heart, passionately. In ‘ Sir Palamedes’ we have the history of a holy quest so treated that the theme becomes reconciled to ‘*The High History of Good Sir Palamedesis something between ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ and ‘Don Quixote’ without the particular individ- ual qualities of either; but, seriously speaking, it is a religious poem, and a great work of art. Again, superficially speaking, it is the master-limerick of a buffoon; again, seriously speaking, it is the epic of t…

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