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    The Book of the Law and the Book of Lies
    The Book of the Law and the Book of Lies
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    The Book of the Law and the Book of Lies

    By Aleister Crowley

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    "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."

    Aleister Crowley’s black magic masterpiece The Book of the Law is the central sacred text of Thelema, written or ‘channeled’ by Crowley in 1904, who claimed it was dictated to him by a disembodied entity named ‘Aiwass’ while he spent the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    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
    PublisherOccult Classics
    Release dateNov 11, 2016
    ISBN9781365528194
    The Book of the Law and the Book of Lies
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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 the Law and the Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley

      THE BOOK OF THE LAW

      and

      THE BOOK OF LIES

      By Aleister Crowley

      The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947). First published in 19o4, this title is in the public domain. This digital edition published by Sacred Texts in the Public Domain, 2016.

      ––––––––

      The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947). First published in 1912, this title is in the public domain. This digital edition published by Sacred Texts in the Public Domain, 2016.

      The Book of the Law and The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley. Published by Sacred Texts in the Public Domain, 2016.

      Editor’s note. All attempts have been made to preserve Mr. Crowley’s original punctuations and spellings, including all English ‘variants’ of American-English words.

      Table of Contents

      THE BOOK OF THE LAW

      and

      THE BOOK OF LIES

      By Aleister Crowley

      THE BOOK OF THE LAW

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III

      The Book of Lies

      The Book of Lies which is also falsely called Breaks the Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo (Aleister Crowley) which Thought is Itself Untrue

      By Aleister Crowley

      COMMENTARY

      FOREWORD

      COMMENTARY

      (The Chapter That is Not a Chapter)

      COMMENTARY

      (The Ante Primal Triad)

      1.THE SABBATH OF THE GOAT

      2.THE CRY OF THE HAWK

      3.THE OYSTER

      4.PEACHES

      5.THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS

      6.CAVIAR

      7.THE DINOSAURS

      8.STEEPED HORSEHAIR

      9.THE BRANKS

      10.WINDLESTRAWS

      11.THE GLOW-WORM

      12.THE DRAGON-FLIES

      13.PILGRIM TALK

      14.ONION-PEELINGS

      15.THE GUN-BARREL

      16.THE STAG-BEETLE

      17.THE SWAN

      18.DEWDROPS

      19.THE LEOPARD AND THE DEER

      20.SAMSON

      21.THE BLIND WEBSTER

      22.THE DESPOT

      23.SKIDOO

      24.THE HAWK AND THE BLINDWORM

      25.THE STAR RUBY

      26.THE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISE

      27.THE SORCERER

      28.THE POLE STAR

      29.THE SOUTHERN CROSS

      30.JOHN-A-DREAMS

      31.THE GAROTTE

      32.THE MOUNTAINEER

      33.BAPHOMET

      34.THE SMOKING DOG(18)

      35.VENUS OF MILO

      36.THE STAR SAPPHIRE

      37.    DRAGONS

      38.LAMBSKIN

      39.THE LOOBY

      40.THE HIMOG

      41.CORN BEEF HASH

      42.   DUST-DEVILS

      43.MULBERRY TOPS

      44.THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX

      45.CHINESE MUSIC

      46.BUTTONS AND ROSETTES

      47.WINDMILL-WORDS

      48.MOME RATHS

      49.WARATAH-BLOSSOMS

      50.THE VIGIL OF ST. HUBERT

      51.TERRIER-WORK

      52.THE BULL-BAITING

      53.THE DOWSER

      54.

      55. THE DROOPING SUNFLOWER

      56. TROUBLE WITH TWINS

      57. THE DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS

      58.

      59.

      60. THE WOUND OF AMFORTAS

      61. THE FOOL'S KNOT

      62. TWIG?

      63. MARGERY DAW

      64. CONSTANCY

      65.SIC TRANSEAT—-

      66.THE PRAYING MANTIS

      67. SODOM-APPLES

      68. MANNA

      69. THE WAY TO SUCCEED-AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS!

      70.BROOMSTICK-BABBLINGS

      71.KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL

      72. HASHED PHEASANT

      73. THE DEVIL, THE OSTRICH, AND THE ORPHAN CHILD

      74.CAREY STREET

      75. PLOVERS' EGGS

      76.PHAETON

      77. THE SUBLIME AND SUPREME SEPTENARY IN ITS MATURE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION THROUGH MATTER:  AS IT IS WRITTEN: AN HE-GOAT ALSO Laylah.

      78.WHEEL AND—WOA!

      79.THE BAL BULLIER

      80. BLACKTHORN

      81.LOUIS LINGG

      82. BORTSCH

      83.THE BLIND PIG

      84.THE AVALANCHE

      85.BORBORYGMI

      86.

      87.MANDARIN-MEALS

      88.GOLD BRICKS

      89. UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

      90.STARLIGHT

      91. THE HEIKLE

      IMAGE GALLERY

      THE BOOK OF THE LAW

      Chapter I

      ––––––––

      1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

      2. The unveiling of the company of heaven.

      3. Every man and every woman is a star.

      4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

      5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!

      6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!

      7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.

      8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.

      9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!

      10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

      11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.

      12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!

      13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.

      14. Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss

      The secret ardours of Hadit. The winged globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

      15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.

      16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

      17. But ye are not so chosen.

      18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!

      19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!

      20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him.

      21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.

      22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof,

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