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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH IIH GOLD BRICKS Teach us Your secret, Master! yap my Yahoos. Then for the hardness of their hearts, and for the softness of their heads, I taught them Magick. Teach us Your real secret, Master! how to become invisible, how to acquire love, and thousand pounds. This did I deign to accept, and whispered in his ear this secret: A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MINUTE.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 62

The Book of Lies

…of is only possible in mathematics, and mathematics is only a matter of arbitrary conventions. And yet doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife. “White is white” is the lash of the overseer; ‘‘white is black” is the watchword of the slave. The Master takes no heed. 58

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1913 · PDF PAGE 71

The Book of Lies

… each did I expound THE GREAT WORK fully, from The Beginning even unto The End thereof. Then at last came certain men unto me, saying: O Master! Expound thou THE GREAT WORK unto us, O Master! And I held my peace. O generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the Wrath that is fallen upon you? O Babblers, Prattlers, Talkers, Loquacious Ones, Tatlers, Chewers of the Red Rag that inflameth Apis the Redeemer to fury, learn firstwhat isWork! and THE GREAT WORK is not so far beyond!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 16

The Book of Lies

…the One and the All. These six the Adept harmonized, and said: This is the Heart of the One and the All. These six were destroyed by the Master of the Temple; and he spake not. The Ash thereof was burnt up by the Magus into The Word. Of all this did the Ipsissimus know Nothing.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 84

The Book of Lies

…Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 73

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH NA EAVES-DROPPINGS Five and forty apprentice masons out of work! Fifteen fellow-craftsmen out of work! Three Master Masons out of work! All these sat on their haunches waiting The Report of the Sojourners; for THE WORD was lost. This is the Report of the Sojourners: THE WORD was LOVE;?? and its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Then said each AMO; for its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Each took the Trowel from his LAP,” whose number is An Hundred and Eleven. Each called moreover on the Goddess NINA 37° for Her number is An Hundred and …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 31

The Book of Lies

…m and his father and his father’s father before him. This is the Dew of Immortality. Let this go free, even as It will; thou art not its master, but the vehicle of It.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Book of Lies

…o say that it is true and false. Strain forth thine Intelligence, O man, O worthy one, O chosen of IT, to apprehend the discourse of THE MASTER; for thus fetter is struck from a slave’s throat.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 136

The Book of Lies

… 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 the eternal speaker .. . should on no account be missed. Itis a work that superficial criticism might as easily compare to some of the productions of Byron, as overlook with a sneer. I doubt,in fact whether the question of its placein literatureis one to be decided by contemporary criticism at all, I, at any rate, will not commit myself…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 128

The Book of Lies

…le on the subject of Regeneration. The Cambridge Review prefers ‘‘the vigour of Mr. Crowley’s ‘ Tannhauser’ to the Attic monotone of the Master (Swinburne).” This rare pamphlet is almost exhausted. As most people know, Berashith is the first word of the book of Genesis, and the essay contains a complete solu- tion of the Problem of Creation, which has baffled all brains less astute and profound than our author’s. The essay has since been reprinted with added references and elucidation of some of the more abstruse propositions ; this edition is,…

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