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    The Book of Lies
    The Book of Lies
    The Book of Lies
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    The Book of Lies

    By Aleister Crowley

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    The Book of Lies consists of 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

    This is the original 1912 public domain text without Aleister Crowley’s 1921 commentary and without any later additions by others.

    As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEnhanced Media Publishing
    Release dateNov 11, 2016
    ISBN9781365527807
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    Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet, painter, occultist, magician, and mountaineer. Born into wealth, he rejected his family’s Christian beliefs and developed a passion for Western esotericism. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Crowley gained a reputation as a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The Granta and Cambridge Magazine. An avid mountaineer, he made the first unguided ascent of the Mönch in the Swiss Alps. Around this time, he first began identifying as bisexual and carried on relationships with prostitutes, which led to his contracting syphilis. In 1897, he briefly dated fellow student Herbert Charles Pollitt, whose unease with Crowley’s esotericism would lead to their breakup. The following year, Crowley joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret occult society to which many of the era’s leading artists belonged, including Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1900 and 1903, he traveled to Mexico, India, Japan, and Paris. In these formative years, Crowley studied Hinduism, wrote the poems that would form The Sword of Song (1904), attempted to climb K2, and became acquainted with such artists as Auguste Rodin and W. Somerset Maugham. A 1904 trip to Egypt inspired him to develop Thelema, a philosophical and religious group he would lead for the remainder of his life. He would claim that The Book of the Law (1909), his most important literary work and the central sacred text of Thelema, was delivered to him personally in Cairo by the entity Aiwass. During the First World War, Crowley allegedly worked as a double agent for the British intelligence services while pretending to support the pro-German movement in the United States. The last decades of his life were spent largely in exile due to persecution in the press and by the states of Britain and Italy for his bohemian lifestyle and open bisexuality.

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      The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley

      !

      O!

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      THE ANTE PRIMAL TRIAD WHICH IS NOT-GOD.

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      Nothing is.

      Nothing Becomes.

      Nothing is not.

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      THE FIRST TRIAD WHICH IS GOD I AM.

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      I utter The Word.

      I hear The Word.

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      THE ABYSS

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      The Word is broken up.

      There is Knowledge.

      Knowledge is Relation.

      These fragments are Creation.

      The broken manifests Light.

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      THE SECOND TRIAD WHICH IS GOD

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      GOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Generation.

      GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature.

      GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony: consideration: the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart.

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      THE THIRD TRIAD

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      Bearing: preparing.

      Wavering: flowing: flashing.

      Stability: begetting.

      THE TENTH EMANATION

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      The world.

      The Sabbath of the Goat

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      O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan.

      {Pi-Alpha-Nu}: 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.

      Neither of these alone is enough.

      The Cry of the Hawk

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      Hoor hath a secret fourfold name: it is Do What Thou Wilt. 

      Four Words: Naught-One-Many-All.

      Thou-Child!

      Thy Name is holy.

      Thy Kingdom is come.

      Thy Will is done.

      Here is the Bread.

      Here is the Blood.

      Bring us through Temptation!

      Deliver us from Good and Evil!

      That Mine as Thine be the Crown of the Kingdom, even now.

      ABRAHADABRA.

      These ten words are four, the Name of the One.

      The Oyster

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      The Brothers of A.'.A.'. are one with the Mother of the Child.

      The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many. This is the Love of These; creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of the Many.

      The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.

      Naught is beyond Bliss.

      The Man delights in uniting with the Woman; the Woman in parting from the Child.

      The Brothers of A.'.A.'. are Women: the Aspirants  to A.'.A.'. are Men.

      Peaches

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      Soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and full!

      It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit!

      Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother hereafter.

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      To all impressions thus.  Let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee. 

      The least of the impressions, come to its perfection, is Pan.

      Receive a thousand lovers; thou shalt bear but One Child.

      This child shall be the heir of Fate the Father.

      The Battle of the Ants

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      That is not which is.

      The only Word is Silence.

      The only Meaning of that Word is not.

      Thoughts are false.

      Fatherhood is unity disguised as duality.

      Peace implies war.

      Power implies war.

      Harmony implies war.

      Victory implies war.

      Glory implies war.

      Foundation implies war.

      Alas!  for the Kingdom wherein all these are at war.

      Caviar

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      The Word was uttered: the One exploded into one thousand million worlds.

      Each world contained a thousand million spheres.

      Each sphere contained a thousand million planes.

      Each plane contained a thousand million stars.

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