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LIBER CCCXXXIIITHE BOOK OF LIESWHICH IS ALSO FALSELYCALLEDBREAKSTHE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICATIONS OF THE ONE THOUGHTOFFRATER PERDURABOWHICH THOUGHT IS ITSELFUNTRUE“ Break, break, breakAt the foot of thy stones, 0 SeaAnd I would that I could utterThe thoughts that arise in me !"!LONDON: WIELAND AND CO.33AVENUE Srumos, Soon-x Knnsme'ron1913
LIBER CCCXXXIII
As. A.'. PUBLICATION IN CLASSESC AND DOFFICIAL FOR BABESIMPRIMATUR.N.OFTHE ABYSS
KE‘PAAHH OTK EST] KEQAAH0I1THE ANTE PRIMAL TRIAD WHICHISNOT-GODNothing is.Nothing becomes.Nothing is not.THE Fms'r TRIAD wmcnIIIISGODAM.utter The Word.hear The Word.THE ABYSSThe Word is broken up.There is Knowledge.Knowledge is Relation.These fragments are Creation.The broken manifests Light.’I7
THE SECOND TRIAD wmcnISGODGOD the Father and Mother is concealed inGeneration.GOD is concealed in the whirling energy ofNature.GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony: consideration: the Mirror of the Sun andof the Heart.THE THIRD TRIADBearing: preparing.Wavering: flowing: flashing.Stability: begetting.Tm: TENTH EMANATIONThe world.
KE'PAAH ATHE SABBATH OF THE GOATO!of N .O.X. the Night of Pan.HAN: Duality: Energy: Death.Death: Begetting: the supporters of O!the heartTobeget is to die; to die is to beget.Cast the Seed into the Field of Night.Life and DeathKillare two namesof A.thyself.Neither of these alone is enough.
KEQAAH BTHE CRY OF THE HAWKHoot hatha secretfourfold name:it is DoWhat Thou Wilt.aFour 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 theKingdom, even now.ABRAHADABRA.These ten words are four, the Name of the One.
\KEQAAH I‘THE OYSTERThe Brothers ofA.'. A.'.are onewith theMother of the Child.‘The Many isas adorableOne is to the Many.to the One as theThisis theLove ofThese: creation-parturition is the Bliss ofthe One;coition-dissolution is the Bliss ofthe 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 ofAspirants toA.'. AA . '. A . '.areareWomen: theMen.
KEQAAH APEACHESSoft and hollow, how thou dost overcome thehard and full!Itdies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit!Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Motherhereafter.To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee.The least of the impressions, come to itsperfection, is Pan.Receivea thousand lovers;thou shalt bearbut One Child.This child shall be the heir of Fate the Father.
KEQAAH ETHE BATTLE OF THE ANTSThat is not which is.The only Word is Silence.The only Meaning of that Wordis 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 allat war.these are
KE l AAHf'CAVIARThe Word was uttered:the Oneexplodedinto one thousand million worlds.Each world containedthousandmillionEach sphere contained a thousandmillionaspheres.planes.Each plane contained a thousand million stars.Each star contained a many thousand millionthings.Ofthese the reasoner took six, and, preening,said: This is the One and theAll.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 theTemple; and he spake not.The Ash thereof was burnt up by the Magusinto The Word.Of all this did the Ipsissimus know Nothing.
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KEQAAHZTHE DINOSAURSNone are They whose number is Six : 5 elsewere they six indeed.Seven‘1are these Six that live not in the Cityof the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan.There was Lao-tzii.There was Siddartha.There was Krishna.There was Tahuti.There was Mosheh.There was Dionysus.’There was Mahmud.But the Seventh men calledPERDURABO;for enduring unto The End, at The End wasNaught to endure.8Amen.
KE'bAAHHSTEEPED HORSEHAIRMind isAlla diseaseof semen.that a man is or may be is hidden therein.Bodily fimctionsareparts of the machine;silent, unless in dis-ease.But mind, never at ease, creakethThisIpersisteth not,‘I.’posteth not throughgenerations, changeth momently,finally isdead.Therefore is men only himself when lost tohimself in The Charioting.
KEQAAH 9THE BRANKSBeing is the Noun; Form is the Adjective.Matter is the Noun; Motion is the Verb.Wherefore hath Being clothed itself with Form?WhereforeMatter manifested itself inhathMotion?0Answer not,silent one!ForTHEREisno ‘wherefore,’ no ‘because.’THATis not known; the Pronoun interprets, thatis,The name ofmisinterprets, It.Time and Space are Adverbs.isDuality begat the Conjunction.The ConditionedFather of the Preposition.InteljectionisThe Article also marketh Division; but thethe sound that endeth in theSilence.isDestroy therefore the Eight Parts of Speech;the Ninthnigh unto Truth.This also must be destroyed before thouinto The Silence.Aum.enterest
KE AAHIWINDLESTRAWSThe Abyss of Hallucinations has Law andReason; but in Truth there is no bondbetween the Toys of the Gods.This Reason and Law is the Bond of the GreatLie.Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of theAbyss of Hallucinations.There is no Silence in that Abyss: for all thatmen call Silence is Its Speech.This Abyss is also called ‘ Hell,’ and ‘TheMany.’ Its name is ‘ Consciousness,’ and‘ButThe Universe,’ among men.THATwhich neither is silent, nor speaks,rejoices therein.
KEIDAAH IATHE GLOW-WORMConcerning the Holy Three-in-Naught.Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, are only to beunderstood by the Master of the Temple.They are above The Abyss, and contain allcontradiction in themselves.Below them is a seeming duality of Chaos andBabalon; these arecalled Father and Mother,but it is not so.Sister,They are called Brother andbut it is not so.They are calledHusband and Wife, but it is not so.The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Panis the Annihilation of the All.Cast down through The Abyss is the Light,the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union thatdestroys, that is The Way.The Rosy Crossis the Ambassador of Pan.How infinite is the distance from This to That !Yet All is Here and Now. Nor is there anyI9
falsehood, ofTHATitisis,whichnot neithernot?nornotisFor thereno predicate;Law ofthenorno subject,isand therebut a t THAT whichThat whicha part, that is,ismanifestation, thatwhatisa.isabutis,There or Then; for all thatthere thecontradictory of either of these things.areTruths thattheseIHoly, Holy, Holyutter, knowing them to be but falsehoods,hide me,forIour Lady, in Thy Womb!0broken mirrors, troubled waters;may notendure the rapture.this utterance of falsehood upon falsehood,seemsuttered not were true.Blessed, unutterably blessed,isThat whichIasifwhose contradictories are also false,itInthis last of theitillusions; let me play the man, and thrustfrom me!Amen.
KEd’AAHIBTHE DRAGON-FLIESIOis the cry of the lower asOI of theInfigures they are 1001;0 in letters they areJoy. 10For when all is equilibrated, when allhigher.is beheldfrom without all, there is joy, joy, joy thatis but one facet of a diamond, every otherfacet whereof is morejoyfulthan joy itself.
KEQAAHII‘PILGRIM-TALKO thou thatsettestis the Phantomout upon The Path, falseWhenthat thou seekest.thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness,thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple.Thus hast thou been lured along That Path,whose terror else had driven thee far away.0thou that stridest upon the middle of ThePath, no phantomsmockthee.For thestride’s sake thou stridest.Thus art thou lured along That Path, whosefascination else had driven thee far away.0thou that drawest toward the End of ThePath, effort is no more.dost thou fall;Faster and fasterthy wearinessis changedinto Inefi'able Rest.For therehastis noThou upon That Path: thoubecome The Way.
KEdIAAHIAONION-FEELINGSThe Universeis the Practical Joke of theGeneral at the Expense of the Particular,quothFRATERPERDURABO,andlaughed.But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeingthe Universal Sorrow.Those next to them laughed, seeing the Universal Joke.Below these certain disciples wept.Then certain laughed.Others next wept.Others next laughed.Next others wept.Next others laughed.Last came those that wept because they couldnot see the Joke. and those that laughedlest they should be thought not to see theJoke, and thought it safe to act likeFRATER PERDURABO.But though FRATER PERDURABO laughedHe also at the same time weptsecretly; and in Himself He neither laughedopenly,nor wept.Nor did He mean what He said.23
KEQAAl-lIETHE GUN-BARRELMighty and erect is this Will of mine, thisPyramid of fire whose summit is lost inHeaven.Upon it haveIburned the corpseof my desires.Mighty and erect is this (Daltth of my \Vill.The seed thereof is That which I haveborne within me from Eternity;and it islost within the Body of Our Lady of theIStars.am notI; I am butan hollow tube to bringdown Fire from Heaven.Mighty and marvellous is this Weakness, thisHeaven which draweth me into Her Womb,this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth,Me.This is The Night whereinthrough whichII am lost,am no longerI.the Love
KEQAAH12THE STAG-BEETLEimplies change and individuality; ifthou be THAT which hath no person, whichDeathis beyond the changing, even beyond changelessness, what hast thou to do with death?The birth of individuality is ecstasy; so alsois its death.Inlove the individuality is slain; who lovesnot love?Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it.Die Daily.
KMMH lZTHE SWAN‘1There is a Swan whose name is Ecstasy: itwingeth from the Deserts of the North; itwingeth through the blue; it wingeth overthe fields of rice; at its coming they pushforth the green.In all the Universe this Swan alone is motionless: it seems to move, as the Sun seems tomove; such is the weakness of our sight.Ofiwl! criest thou?Amen. Motion is relative: there is Nothingthat is still.Against this Swan1shot an arrow; the whitebreast poured forth blood.then, perceiving thatI wasMen smote me;but a Pure Fool,they let me pass.Thus and not otherwise Icame to the Templeof the Graal.
KEQAAH IHDEWDROPSVerily, love is death, and death is life to come.Man returneth not again; the stream flowethnot uphill; the old life is no more; there isa newlife that is not his.Yet that life is of his very essence; it is moreHe than all that he calls He.In the silence of a dewdrop is every tendencyof his soul, and of his mind, and of hisbody; it is the Quintessence and the Elixirof his being. Therein are the forces thatmade him and his father and his father’sfather before him.This is the Dew of Immortality.Let this go free, even as It will; thou art notits master, but the vehicle of It.
KEIDAAH 19THE LEOPARD AND THE DEERThe spots of the leopardare thesunlight inthe glade; pursue thou the deer stealthilyat thy pleasure.The dappling of the deer is the sunlight inthe glade; concealed from the leopard dothou feed at thy pleasure.Resemhle all that surroundeththee;yet beThyself—and take thy pleasure among theliving.This is that which is written—Lurk l—in TheBook of The Law.
KEtbAAHKSAMSONthough his force be butathat is withoutit,The Universe is in equilibrium; therefore Hefeather, can overturn the Universe.lie,00child ofBe not caught within that web,Freedom] Be not entangled in the universalchild of Truth!
KEQAAH KATHE BLIND WEBSTERItis not necessary to understand;it is enoughto adore.The god may be of clay: adore him; he becomesGOD.We ignore what created us; we adore whatwe create. Let us create nothing but GOD!That which causes us to create is our truefather and mother; we create in our ownimage, which is theirs.Let us create therefore without fear; for wecan create nothing that is not GOD.
KMMHKBTHE DESPOTThe waiters of the best eating-houses mockthe whole world; they estimate every clientat his proper value.ThisIknow certainly, because they alwaystreat me with profound respect. Thus theyhave flattered mepublicly.'into praising them thusYet it is true; and theyhave this insight because they serve, and because they can haveno personal interest in the affairs of thosewhom they serve.An absolute monarchwouldbeabsolutelywise and good.But no man is strong enough to have nointerest. Therefore the best king would bePure Chance.Itis Pure Chance that rules the Universe;therefore, and only therefore, life is good.
KEMAH KI‘(23)SKIDOOWhat man is at ease in his Inn?Get out.Wide is the world and cold.Get out.Thou hast become an in-itiate.Get out.But thou canst not get out by the way thouearnest in.The Way out isTHE WAY.Get out.For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power."GetOUT.If thouhastT already,first getThen get 0.Andso at last getOUT.UT.“
KEQ’AAH KATHE HAWK AND THE BLINDWORMThis book would translate Beyond-Reasoninto the words of Reason.Explain thou snow to them of Andaman.The slaves of reason call this book Abuse-ofLanguage: they are right.Language was made for men to eat and drink,make love, do barter, die.The wealth ofa language consists in its Abstracts;thepoorest tongues have wealth of Concretes.Therefore have Adepts praised silence;atleast it does not mislead as speech does.Also, Speech is a symptom of Thought.Yet, silence is butthe negative sideof Truth;the positive side is beyond even silence.Nevertheless, One True God criethAndthe laughterhriliu!of the Death-rattle is akin.
KE1 AAHKETHE STAR RUBYFacing East, in the centre, draw deep deepdeep thy breath, closing thy mouth withthy right forefinger prest against thy lowerlip. Then dashing down the hand with agreat sweep back and out, expelling forciblythy breath, cry: Al'IO HANTOC KAKOAAIMONOC.With the same forefinger touch thy forehead, andsay 001, thy member, and say 9 @AAAE,“thy right shoulder, and say ICXTPOC, thyleft shoulder, and say EYXAPICTOC; thenclasp thine hands, locking the fingers, andcry IAQ.to the East.Imagine strongly aPentagram, aright, in thy forehead. Drawing the hands to the eyes, fling it forth,Advancemaking the sign of Horus, and roar XAOC.Retire thine hand in the sign of Hoor pakraat.34
Go round to the North and repeat; but screamBABAAON.G0 round to the West and repeat;but sayEPDC.Go round to the South and repeat; but bellow‘I'TXH.Completing the circle widdershins, retire tothe centre, and raise thy voice in the Paian,with these words IO HAN with the signs ofN. O. X.Extend the arms in the form of a Tau, andsaylow butclear:l'IPOMOT ITI‘I‘ECOHICQ MOT TEAETAPXAI EHI AEEIACYNOXECEHAPICTEPA AAIMONEC(PAEI‘EI I‘AP HEPI MOT O ACTHP TONHENTE KAI EN THI CTHAHI O ACTHPTON E3 ECTHKE.Repeat the CrossQabalistic, as above, andend as thou didst begin.
KEQAAHKFTHE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISEThe Absolute and the Conditioned togethermake The One Absolute.The Second, who is the Fourth, the Demiurge,whom all nations of Men call The First, isa lie grafted upon a lie, a lie multiplied bya lie.Fourfold is He, the Elephant upon whom theUniverse is poised: but the carapace of theTortoise supports and covers all.This Tortoise is sixfold, the Holy Hexagram.“These six and four are ten, 10, the One manifested thatreturnsinto the Naught unmanifest.The All-Mighty, the All-Ruler, the AllKnower, the All-Father, adored by all menand by me abhorred, be thou accursed, bethou abolished, be thou annihilated, Amen!
KE‘PAAHKZTHE SORCERERASorcerer by the power of his magick hadsubdued all things to himself.Would he travel?He could fly throughspacemore swiftly than the stars.Would he eat, drink, and take his pleasure?There was none that did not instantly obeyhis bidding.Inthe whole system of ten million times tenmillion spheres upon the two and twentymillion planes he had his desire.And with all thisAlas!he was but himself.
KEQMH KHTHE POLE-STARLove is all virtue, since the pleasure of love isbut love, and the pain of love is but love.Love taketh no heed of that which is not andof that which is.Absence exalteth love, and presence exaltethlove.Love moveth ever from height to height ofecstasy and faileth never.The wings of love droop not with time, norslacken for life or for death.Love destroyeth self, uniting self with thatwhich is not-self, so that Love breedethAlland None in One.Isitnotso?. .No?. .Then thou art not lost in love; speak not oflove.Love Alway Yieldeth: Love Alway Hardeneth. . . . . . . . .Her name.Maybe: Iwriteit but towrite
KEwAAI-I K9THE SOUTHERN CROSSINight, night, cover us!Thou art night, 0 my love; and there areno stars but thine eyes.Love,love you!Dark night, sweet night, so warm and yet soyet so holy, cover me,fresh, so scentedcover me!Let mebe no more!Let meThou; let mebe neitherme bebeThine; letThou norI;let there he love in night and night in love.N. O. X.the nightof Pan; and Laylah, thenight before His threshold!
KE‘PAAH AJOHN-A-DREAMSDreams are imperfections of sleep; even so isconsciousness the imperfection of waking.Dreams are impurities in the circulation of theblood; even so is consciousness a disorderof life.Dreams are without proportion, without goodsense,without truth; so also is consciousness.Awake from dream, the truth is known:16awakefromUnknown.waking, theTruth is—The
KEQAAH AATHE GAROTTEITmoves from motion into rest, and restsfromrestalway,neitherinto motion.for time is not.of these things.TheseSo thatITITITdoesdoesdoesTHATone thing which we must express by twothingsof whichneitheranypossessesrational meaning.Yet ITS doing, which is not-doing, is simple andyet complex, is neither free nor necessary.For allthese ideas expressall Relation incomprehendingIT,Relation; andITSsimplicity, is out of all Relation even withITSELF.Allthis is true and false; and it is true andfalse to say that it is true and false.Strain forth thine Intelligence,worthy one,0chosen ofthe discourse ofIT,0man,0to apprehendTHE MASTER;for thusthy reason shall at last break down, as thefetter is struck from a slave’s throat.
KEQAAH ABTHE MOUNTAINEERConsciousness is a symptom of disease.AllAllthat moves well moves without will.skilfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease.Practisea thousanddifi‘icult;times,a thousandand it becomesthousand,comes easy; a thousandand it bethousand times abutthat doeth itself throughthee. Not until thenisthat doethItit,thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thouthat which isdonewell done.Thus spokeleaptFRATER PERDURABOfromrock to rock of the morainewithout ever castingground.as hehiseyesuponthe
KEGMAH AI‘BAPHOMETAblack two-headed Eagle is GOD; even aBlack Triangle is He.In Hisclaws Hebeareth a sword; yea, a sharp sword is heldtherein.This Eagle is burnt up in the Great Fire; yetnot a feather is scorched. This Eagle isswallowedup in the Great Sea; yet not afeather is wetted.So flieth He in the air,and lighteth upon the earth at His pleasure.So spakeIACOBUS BURGUNDUSLEN SIS ‘7 the Grand Masterand of theGODdare not speak.MOof the Temple;that is Ass-headed did he
KE‘I’AAHAATHE SMOKING DOG“Each act of man is the twist and double of anhare.Love and Death are the greyhounds that coursehim.God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasurein the sport.This is the Comedy of Pan, that man shouldthink he hunteth, while those hounds hunthim.This is the Tragedy of Man when facing Loveand Death he turns to bay. He is no morehare, but boar.There are no other comedies or tragedies.Cease then to be the mockeryof God; insavagery of love and death live thou and die!Thus shall His laughter be thrilled throughwith Ecstasy.
KE‘DAAl-I AEVENUS OF MILOLife isand necessary as the femaleugly7asbody.Death is as beautifuland necessary as themale body.The soul is beyond male and femalebeyond Life and Death.Even as the Lingam and the Yoniasit isarebutdiverse developments of One Organ, so alsoare Life and Death but two phases of OneState.So also the Absolute and the Conditioned are but forms ofWhat doIto whichTHAT.love? There is no form, no being,I donot give myself wholly up.Take me, who will!
KEQAAH A2THE STAR SAPPHIRELet the Adeptbearmed with his MagickRood [and provided with his Mystic Rose.]In the centre, let him give the L. V. X. signs;orifheknow them,ifhewill and dare dothem, and can keep silent about them, thesigns of N. O.X.being the signs of Puer,Vir, Puella, Mulier.Omit the signI. R.Then let him advance to the East, and makePATER ETMATER UNUS DEUS ARARITA.the Holy Hexagram, saying:Let him go round to the South, make theHoly Hexagram, and say: MATER ETFILIUS UNUS DEUS ARARITA.Let him go round totheHexagram, and say:West, make the HolyFILIUS ET FILIAUNUS DEUS ARARITA.Let him go round to the North, make theHoly Hexagram, and then say: FILIA ETPATER UNUS DEUS ARARITA.46
Let him then return to the Centre, and so toThe Centre of All [making the ROSYCROSSas hemay know how] saying:ARARITA ARARITA ARARITA.[In this the Signs shall be those of Set Triumphant and of Baphomet.Also shall Setappear in the Circle. Let him drink of theSacramentand let him communicatethesame.]OMNIA IN DUOS: DUOIN UNUM: UNUS IN NIHIL: HAECnec QUATUOR nec OMNIA necDUO NEC UNUS NEC NIHIL SUNT.GLORIA PATRI ET MATRI ET FILIOThen let him say:ET FILIAE ET SPIRITUI SANCTOEXTERNO ET SPIRITUI SANCTOINTERNO UT ERAT EST ERIT INSAECULA SAECULORUM SEX INuno PER NOMEN SEPTEM IN UNOARARITA.Let him then repeat the signs of L. V. X. butnot the signs of N. O.X.:for it is not hethat shall arise in the Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
KE 1 AAHAZDRAGONSThought is the shadow of the eclipse of Luna.Samadhi is the shadow of the eclipse of Sol.The moon andthe earth are the non-ego andthe ego: the Sun isTHAT.Both eclipses are darkness;both are exceeding rare; the Universe itself is Light.
KE‘PAAHAHLAMBSKINCowan, skidoolTyle!Swear to hele all.This is the mystery.Life!Mind is the traitor.Slay mind.Letthe corpseedgeof mind lie unburied on theof the Great Sea!Death!This is the mystery.Tyle!Cowan, skidoo!
KEQAAH A6THE LOOBYOnly loobies find excellence in these words.Itis thinkablethatAis not-A; to reversethis is but to revert to the normal.Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositionsof which one set is absurdity, the other truism,a new functionof brain is established.Vague and mysterious and all indefinitearethe contents of this new consciousness; yetthey are somehow vital.By use they become luminous.Unreason becomes Experience.This lifts the leaden-footed Soul to the Experience ofTHATof which Reason is theblasphemy.But without that Experiencethese words arethe Lies of a Looby.YetaLooby to thee, and a Booby to me, aBalassius Ruby to GOD, may be!
KEQAAH MTHE HIMOGmAred rose absorbs all colours but red; red istherefore the one colour that it is not.This Law, Reason, Time, Space, all Limitation blinds us to Truth.Allthat we know of Man, Nature, God, isjust that which they are not; it is that whichthey throw off as repugnant.TheHIMOGis only visible insofar as He isimperfect.Then are they all glorious who seem not to beglorious,WithinItastheHIMOGis All-glorious2may be so.How then distinguish the inglorious and perfect HIMOG from the inglorious man ofearth?Distinguish not!But thyself Ex-tinguish:andHIMOGHIMOGshalt thou be.art thou,
KEtbAAH MACORN BEEF HASH“0In V. V. V. V. V.Thereforenoneis the GreatisthatWork perfect.pertainethnottoV. V. V. V. V.Inany may he manifest;yet in one hath hechosen to manifest; and this one hath givenHis ring as a Seal of Authority to the Workof the A.'. A.'. through the colleagues ofFRATER PERDURABO.But this concerns themselves and their administration; it concerneth none below thegrade of Exempt Adept, and such an oneonly by command.Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord,let men seek by experiment,Questionings.and not by
KE‘DAAH MBDUST-DEVILSIn the Wind of the mind arisescalled I.the turbulence“1Itbreaks; down shower the barren thoughts.All life is choked.This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Uni The Stars are but thistles in thatverse.waste.Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd in aworld of bliss.Now and again Travellers cross the desert;they come from the Great Sea, and to theGreat Sea they go.As they go they spill water; one day they willirrigate the desert,till itflower.See! five footprints of a Camell V. V. V.V. V.
KEIPAAHMI‘MULBERRY TOPSBlack blood upon the altar! and the rustle ofangel wings above!Black blood of the sweet fruit, the bruised,the violated bloom—that setteth The Wheela-spinning in the spire.Death is the veil of Life, and Life of Death;for both are Gods.This is that which is written: “A feast forLife, and a greater feast for Death!” in THEBOOK OF THE LAW.The blood isthen blood!thelife of the individual: offer
KE‘PAAH MATHE MASS OF THE PHCENIXThe Magician, his hreart hare, stand: hejbre analtar on whith are his Bun'n, Bell, Thun'hle,and two of the Cake: of Light. In the Signif theEntererhe reachesWert across theAltar, and trier .'Hail Ra,Intothat goest in Thy barkthe Cavernsof the Dark!He give: the :ign of Silence, and take:and Fire, in his hands.theBell,East of the Altar see me standWith Light and Musick in mine hand!He strike: Eleven time: upon the Bell 3 3 3—5 5 5 5 5—3 3 3 and place: the Fire in theTham'hle.I strikeIthe Bell:Ilight the flame:utter the mysterious Name.ABRAHADABRASS
Hestrz'hesNowIEleven time: upon the Bell.begin to pray: Thou Child,Holy Thy name and undefiled!Thy reign is come: Thy will is done.Here is the Bread; here is the Blood.Bring me through midnight to the Sun!Save me from Evil and from Good!That Thy one crown of all the TenEven now and here be mine.AMEN.He puts the first Cake on the Fire qf theThurible.I burnthe Incense-cake,proclaimThese adorations of Thy name.He makes them as in Liber-Leg-zlr,and strikesagain Eleven time: upon the Bell.Burinhe then makesupon his breast theproper sign.Behold this bleeding breast of mineGashed with the sacramental sign!Heputs the second Cake to the wound.Istanch the blood; the wafer soaksItup, and the high priest invokes!He eats the second Cake.This Bread I eat. This Oath I swearAs I enflame myself with prayer:56With the
“There is no grace: there is no guilt:This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT !”He :tn'hes Eleven time: upon the Bell, andtriesIABRAHADABRA.entered in with woe; with mirthInow go forth, and with thanksgiving,To do my pleasure on the earthAmong the legions of the living.He gveth forth.
KE‘DAAH MECHINESE MUSIC“ Explain“Itthis happening !”must have a ‘natural’ cause.”u It must have a ‘supernaturalthese two asses be set torcause.7,Letgrind corn.May, might, must, should, probably, may be,we may safely assume, ought, it is hardlyquestionable, almost certainly—poor hacks!let them be turned out to grass!Proof is only possible in mathematics, andmathematics is only a matter of arbitraryconventions.Andyet doubt is a good servant but a bada perfect mistress, but a naggingmaster;wife.‘ ‘White iswhite” is the lash of the overseer;“white is black” is the watchword of theslave.The Master takes no heed.58
The Chinese cannot help thinking that theoctave has 5 notes.The more necessary anything appears to mymind, the more certain it is thatassert aI sleptIonlylimitation.with Faith, and found a corpse in myarms on awaking;Idrank and danced allnight with Doubt, and found her a virgin inthe morning.
KE‘I’AAHMFBUTTONS AND ROSETTESThe cause of sorrow is the desire of the Oneto the Many, or of the Many to the One.This also is thecauseof joy.But the desire of one to another is all of sorrow ;its birth is hunger, and its death satiety.The desire of the moth forsavesthe star at leasthim satiety.Hunger thou,0man, for the infinite: be insatiable even for the finite; thus at The Endshalt thou devour the finite, and become theinfinite.Be thou more greedy than the shark, more fullof yearning than the wind among the pines.The weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiathpilgrim stops.The road winds uphill: all law, all naturemust be overcome.Do this by virtue ofTHATin thyself beforewhich law and nature are but shadows.
KEd AAH MZWINDMILL-WORDSAsana gets rid of Anatomy-consciousness.Pranayama gets ridof ma and Niyama get rid ofVoluntaryEthical consciousness.} ‘Breaks'Pratyhara gets rid of the Objective.Dharana gets rid of the Subjective.Dhyana gets rid of the Ego.Samadhi gets rid of the Soul Impersonal.Asana destroys the static body (Nama).Pranayama destroys the dynamic body (Rupa).destroys theYarnaemotions.(Vedana).Niyama destroys the passions. }Dharana destroys the perceptions (Sanfia).Dhyana destroys the tendencies anam).Homard a la Themindor destroys the digestion.The last of these facts is the one of which Iam most certain.
KEQAAH MHMoME RATHS"The early bird catchesthe worm;and thetwelve-year old prostitute attracts the ambassador.Neglect not the dawn-meditation!The first plovers’ eggs fetch the highest prices;the flower of virginity is esteemed by thepandar.Neglect not the dawn-meditation!Early to bed and early to riseMakes a man healthy and wealthy and wise :But late to Watch and early to prayBrings him across The Abyss, they say.Neglect not the dawn-meditation!
KEQAAH M9WARATAH-BLOSSOMSSeven are the veils of the dancing-girlharem ofin theIT.Seven are the names, and seven are the lampsbeside Her bed.Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords;No Man may come nigh unto Her.In Her wine-cup are seven streams of theblood of the Seven Spirits of God.Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereonShe rideth.of a Saint:the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour:the head of a Satyr: and the head of a LionThe head of an Angel:Serpent.the head
Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it isThis isthe Seal upon theForefinger ofIT:Ring that is on theand it is the Seal uponthe Tombs of them whom She hath slain.Here is Wisdom. Let Him that hath Understanding count the Number of Our Lady;for it is the Number of a Woman; and HerNumber isAn
LIBERCCCXXXIII THEBOOKOFLIES WHICH ISALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS THE WANDERINGS OR FALSIFICA TIONSOFTHEONETHOUGHT OF FRATERPERDURABO WHICHTHOUGHT IS ITSELF UNTRUE “Break,break, break Atthefootofthystones, 0Sea! AndIwouldthat Icould
