The Book of Lies

By Aleister Crowley

An admirable selection of Crowley's aphorisms-- Witty, sophisticated, and instructive paradoxes that problem and exhilarate.

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Wilt thou suffer unto the tip, O FRATER PERDURABO, O Lamp within the Abyss? Thou hast the Keystone of the Royal Arch; but the Apprentices, rather than making bricks, placed the straws of their hair, and imagine they're Jesus Christ! O chic tragedy and comedy of the good paintings! [126] remark ({Nu-Eta}) Haggai, a infamous Hebrew prophet, is a moment Officer in a bankruptcy of the Royal Arch Masons. during this bankruptcy the writer, in a kind of raging eloquence, bewails his impotence to precise himself, or to urge others to stick to into the sunshine. In para-graph 1 he explains the sardonic laughter, for which he's justly celebrated, as being in truth the expression of this sense. Paragraph 2 is a connection with the duty of an Entered Apprentice Mason. Paragraph three refers back to the rite of Exaltation in Royal Arch Masonry. The begin may be in a position to become aware of the main ambitious mystery of that measure con-cealed within the paragraph. Paragraphs 4-6 exhibit an discomfort to which that of Gethsemane and Golgotha needs to look like whitlows. In paragraph 7 the ache is damaged up by way of the sardonic or cynical laughter to which we've got formerly alluded. And the ultimate paragraph, within the phrases of the noblest simplicity, praises the nice paintings; rejoices in its sublimity, within the best paintings, within the depth of the fervour and ecstasy which it brings forth. (Note that the phrases "passion" and "ecstasy" might be taken as symbolical of Yoni and Lingam. ) [127] fifty nine {Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Nu-Theta} there is not any help-but hotch pot! -in the skies while Astacus sees Crab and Lobster upward push. guy that has backbone, and hopes of heaven-to-be, Lacks the Amoeba's immortality. What protoplasm earnings in cellular mirth Is lack of the soundness of earth. topic and feel and brain have had their day: Nature provides the invoice, and all needs to pay. If, as i'm really not, I have been unfastened to decide on, How Buddhahood might conflict with The Booze! My walk in the park that future is "good" Rests on its picking out me for Buddhahood. have been I a drunkard, I should still imagine I had strong facts that destiny was once "bloody bad". [128] remark ({Nu-Theta}) The name is a euphemism for homo sapiens. The crab and the lobster are better sorts of crustacae than the crayfish. The bankruptcy is a brief essay in poetic shape on Determinism. It hymns the nice legislations of Equilibrium and reimbursement, yet cynically criticises all philo-sophers, hinting that their view of the universe relies on their very own conditions. The patient from toothache doesn't accept as true with health care provider Pangloss, that "all is for the easiest within the better of all attainable worlds". Nor does the wealthiest of our Dukes bitch to his cronies that "Times is merciless 'ard". [129] 60 {Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Xi} THE WOUND OF AMFORTAS(27) The Self-mastery of Percivale grew to become the Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has turn into "virture". The features that have made a guy, a race, a urban, a caste, has to be thrown off; loss of life is the penalty of failure. because it is written: within the hour of luck sacrifice that that's dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods!

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