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1913 · PDF PAGE 92

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH OA KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL For mind and body alike there is no purgative like Pranayama, no purgative like Prana- yama. For mind, for body, for mind and body alike— alike!—there is, there is, there is no purga- tive, no purgative like Pranayama—Prana- yama !—Pranayama! yea, for mind and body alike there is no purgative, no purgative, no purgative (for mind and body alike!) no like Pranayama, like Pranayama, like Prana — Prana — Prana — Prana — Pranayama! — Pranayama ! AMEN.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 76

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH NZ THE DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS Dirt is matter in the wrong place. Thought is mind in the wrong place. Matter is mind; so thought is dirt. Thus argued he, the Wise One, not mindful that all place is wrong. For not until the PLACE is perfected by a T saith he PLACET. The Rose uncrucified droppeth its petals; 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 dou…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 53

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH AH LAMBSKIN Cowan, skidoo! Tyle! Swear to hele all. This is the mystery. Life! Mind is the traitor.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 63

The Book of Lies

The Chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has 5 notes. The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that I only the morning.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 20

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH H STEEPED HORSEHAIR Mind is a disease of semen. All that a man is or may be is hidden therein. Bodily functions are parts of the machine; silent, unless in dis-ease.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 70

The Book of Lies

…ay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake! The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted! Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay! Then, wind the Mort!

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1913 · PDF PAGE 127

The Book of Lies

…G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to bear; I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 57

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH MB DUST-DEVILS In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence?! called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Uni- verse. The Stars are but thistles in that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd ina world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. See! five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V. V. V.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 101

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…ese the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee con- sciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayst thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.| And lo! thou art past through the Abyss,

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1913 · PDF PAGE 137

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…e Herbert, and Cra- shaw, although Mr. Crowleyis smooth where they are rugged, plain where they are perplexing. ‘*These poems indicate a mind full of earnest aspiration towards his spiritual Queen, a mind of an engaging zaiveté, untroubled by the religious and philosophical problems which weary more com- plex intelligences. This little work can be cordially recommended to Catholic readers.”—Paris Daily Mail. “We crave for poetry in England, but we do not like poets, unless they are exceeding conventional when we can laureate them, becausein the…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 31

The Book of Lies

…e 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, even as It will; thou art not its master, but the vehicle of It.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 74

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KE®AAH NE THE DROOPING SUNFLOWER The One Thought vanished; all my mind was tom to rags: ——— nay! nay! my head was mashed into wood pulp, and thereon the Daily Newspaper was printed. Thus wrote I, since my One Love was torn from me. I cannot work: I cannot think: I seek distraction here: I seek distraction there: but this is all my truth, that Z who love have lost; and how may 1 regain? I must have money to get to America. O Mage! Sage! Gauge thy Wage, or in the Page of thine Age is written Rage! O my darling! We should not have spent Ninety Pou…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 119

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…. 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.” . wy=PG=Pig without an I=Blind Pig.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Lies

…cle is—not to be consoled! ‘¢And though I sleep with Jane and Eleanor I feel no better than I did before, ** And Julian only fixes in my mind Even before feels better than behind. ‘*You are Mercurial spirits—be so kind As to enable me to raise the wind. ‘“‘Put me in LAYLAH’S arms again: the Accurst, Leaving me that, elsechow may do his worst.” DONI and DIN, perceiving me inspired, Conceived their task was finished : they retired. I turned upon my friend, and, breaking bounds, Borrowed a trifle of two hundred pounds. 81 f

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