Satanic Classics (Illustrated) E-Book

Aleister Crowley

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Beschreibung

THREE MASTER WORKS FROM THE OFFICIAL CHURCH OF SATAN READING LIST

From the list originally published in Magistra Blanche Barton’s The Church of Satan as approved by Magus Anton Szandor LaVey.

THREE CLASSIC TEXTS FOR STUDENTS OF SATANISM AND THE OCCULT:

THE BOOK OF LIES by Aleister Crowley

“Teach us Your real secret, Master! how to become invisible, how to acquire love, and oh! beyond all, how to make gold.”

The esoteric masterpiece by one of the foremost mystics of all times. 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. Chapter 44 of the book describes the ritual named the Mass of the Phoenix.  

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley, is a masterpiece of modern occult literature. There are numerous intriguing references: to the Tarot, the Qabala, astrology, Egyptian mythology, the "Left Hand Path," Masonry, the Beast of Revelation, sacred geometry, etc. Crowley's writing is often cryptic, often witty, often elegant. The book is also full of memorable quotes. Like the most enduring of occult and freethinking writers, Crowley challenges us to refocus our dulled organs of perception, and to rethink our stale mental conventions.

THE ANTI-CHRIST by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist (also could be translated as The Anti-Christian) was originally published in 1895. It was actually written in 1888 but its controversial content delayed its publication, along with  Ecce Homo.

Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900) wrote  The Antichrist (1888) after  Thus Spake Zarathustra and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. This work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra. Christianity, says Nietzche, represents "everything weak, low, and botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism towards all the self-preservative instincts of strong life." By contrast, Nietzche defines good as: " All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? - All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? - The feeling that power is increasing, - that resistance has been overcome." 

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy. The second part of the book is called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator. Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground."

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Leseprobe

Satanic Classics

Aleister Crowley et al.

Published by Logos, 2018.

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The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley. First published in 1912. The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by H. L. Mencken. First published in 1895. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First published in 1864.

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Satanic Classics published by Baphomet Books, 2018.

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ISBN: 978-1-387-62432-4.

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Satanic Classics (Illustrated)

THE BOOK OF LIES | By Aleister Crowley

KEΦAΛH H OYK EΣTI KEΦAΛH | O!

KEΦAΛH A | The Sabbath of the Goat

KEΦAΛH B | The Cry of the Hawk

KEΦAΛH Γ | The Oyster

KEΦAΛH B | Peaches

KEΦAΛH E | The Battle of the Ants

KEΦAΛH F | Caviar

KEΦAΛH Z | The Dinosaurs

KEΦAΛH H | Steeped Horsehair

KEΦAΛH Θ | The Branks

KEΦAΛH I | Windlestraws

KEΦAΛH IA | The Glow-Worm

KEΦAΛH IB | The Dragon-Flies

KEΦAΛH Γ | Pilgrim-Talk

KEΦAΛH IΛ | Onion-Peelings

KEΦAΛH IE | The Gun-Barrel

KEΦAΛH IΣ | The Stag-Beetle

KEΦAΛH IZ | The Swan

KEΦAΛH IH | Dewdrops

KEΦAΛH IΘ | The Leopard and the Deer

KEΦAΛH K | Samson

KEΦAΛH KA | The Blind Webster

KEΦAΛH KB | The Despot

KEΦAΛH KΓ (23) | Skidoo

KEΦAΛH KΛ | The Hawk and the Blindworm

KEΦAΛH KE | The Star Ruby

KEΦAΛH KF | The Elephant and the Tortoise

KEΦAΛH KZ | The Sorcerer

KEΦAΛH KH | The Pole Star

KEΦAΛH KΘ | The Southern Cross

KEΦAΛH Λ | John-A-Dreams

KEΦAΛH ΛA | The Garrote

KEΦAΛH ΛB | The Mountaineer

KEΦAΛH ΛΓ | Baphomet

KEΦAΛH ΛΛ | The Smoking Dog

KEΦAΛH ΛE | Venus of Milo

KEΦAΛH ΛΣ | The Star Sapphire

KEΦAΛH ΛZ | Dragons

KEΦAΛH ΛH | Lambskin

KEΦAΛH AΘ | The Looby

KEΦAΛH M | The Himog

KEΦAΛH MA | Corn Beef Hash

KEΦAΛH MB | Dust-Devils

KEΦAΛH MΓ | Mulberry Tops

KEΦAΛH MΛ | The Mass of the Phoenix

KEΦAΛH ME | Chinese Music

KEΦAΛH MF | Buttons and Rosettes

KEΦAΛH MZ | Windmill-Words

KEΦAΛH MH | Mome Raths

KEΦAΛH MΘ | Waratah-Blossoms

KEΦAΛH N | The Vigil of St. Hubert

KEΦAΛH NA | Terrier-Work

KEΦAΛH NB | The Bull-Baiting

KEΦAΛH NΓ | The Dowser

KEΦAΛH NΛ | Eaves-Droppings

KEΦAΛH NE | The Drooping Sunflower

KEΦAΛH NF | Trouble With Twins

KEΦAΛH NZ | The Duck-Billed Platypus

KEΦAΛH NH | Haggai-Howlings

KEΦAΛH NΘ | The Tailless Monkey

KEΦAΛH Θ | The Wound of Amfortas

KEΦAΛH ΘA | The Fool’s Knot

KEΦAΛH ΘB | Twig?

KEΦAΛH ΘB | Margery Daw

KEΦAΛH ΘΛ | Constancy

KEΦAΛH ΘE | Sic Transeat –

KEΦAΛH ΘF | The Praying Mantis

KEΦAΛH ΘZ | Sodom-Apples

KEΦAΛH ΘH | Manna

KEΦAΛH ΘΘ | The Way to Succeed – And the Way to Suck Eggs!

KEΦAΛH O | Broomstick-Babblings

KEΦAΛH OA | King’s College Chapel

KEΦAΛH OB | Hashed Pheasant

KEΦAΛH OΓ | The Devil, the Ostrich, and the Orphan Child

KEΦAΛH OΛ | Carey Street

KEΦAΛH OE | Plovers’ Eggs

KEΦAΛH OF | Phaeton

KEΦAΛH OZ | The Sublime and Supreme Septenary in its Mature Magical Manifestation Through Matter: As it is Written: An He-Goat Also

KEΦAΛH OH | Wheel and – Woa!

KEΦAΛH OΘ | The Bal Bullier

KEΦAΛH OΠ | Blackthorn

KEΦAΛH ΠA | Louis Lingg

KEΦAΛH ΠB | Bortsch

KEΦAΛH ΠΓ | The Blind Pig

KEΦAΛH ΠΛ | The Avalanche

KEΦAΛH ΠE | Borborygmi

KEΦAΛH ΠF | Tat

KEΦAΛH ΠZ | Mandarin-Meals

KEΦAΛH ΠH | Gold Bricks

KEΦAΛH ΠΘ | Unprofessional Conduct

KEΦAΛH P | Starlight

KEΦAΛH PA | The Heikle

Image Gallery

THE ANTI-CHRIST | By Friedrich Nietzsche

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND | By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Further Reading: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Images on following pages:

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Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) with his wife Rose (née Kelly) and daughter Lola Zaza. If the date on the picture is correct, it would have been taken after their divorce in 1909.

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A young Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) from 1861.

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) on his bier, drawing by Ivan Kramskoi, 1881.

LIBER CCCXXXIII

THE BOOK OF LIES

By Aleister Crowley

which is also falsely called

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Breaks

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The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo which Thought is Itself Untrue

“Break, break, break

At the foot of thy stones, O Sea!

And I would that I could utter

The thoughts that arise in me!” 

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KEΦAΛH H OYK EΣTI KEΦAΛH

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.

KEΦAΛH A

The Sabbath of the Goat

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

ΠAN: 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.

KEΦAΛH B

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.

KEΦAΛH Γ

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.

KEΦAΛH B

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.

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.

KEΦAΛH E

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.

KEΦAΛH F

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.

Each star contained a many thousand million things.

Of these the reasoner took six, and, preening, said:

This is the One and the All.

These six the Adept harmonised, and said:

This is the Heart of the One and the All.

These six were destroyed by the Master of the Temple; and he spake not.

The Ash thereof was burnt up by the Magus into The Word.

Of all this did the Ipsissimus know Nothing.

KEΦAΛH Z

The Dinosaurs

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None are They whose number is Six: else were they six indeed.

Seven are these Six that live not in the City of the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan. 

There was Lao-tzu.

There was Siddartha.

There was Krishna.

There was Tahuti.

There was Mosheh.

There was Dionysus.

There was Mahmud.

But the Seventh men called Perdurabo; for enduring unto The End, at The End was Naught to endure.

Amen.

KEΦAΛH H

Steeped Horsehair

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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.

But mind, never at ease, creaketh “I.”

This I persisteth not, posteth not through generations, changeth momently, finally is dead.

Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in The Charioting.

KEΦAΛH Θ

The Branks

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Being is the Noun; Form is the adjective.

Matter is the Noun; Motion is the Verb.

Wherefore hath Being clothed itself with Form?

Wherefore hath Matter manifested itself in Motion?

Answer not, O silent one!  For there is no "wherefore," no "because."

The name of that is not known; the Pronoun interprets, that is, misinterprets, It.

Time and Space are Adverbs.

Duality begat the Conjunction.

The Conditioned is Father of the Preposition.

The Article also marketh Division; but the Interjection is the sound that endeth in the Silence.

Destroy therefore the Eight Parts of Speech; the Ninth is nigh unto Truth.

This also must be destroyed before thou enterest into The Silence.

Aum.

KEΦAΛH I

Windlestraws

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The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods.

This Reason and Law is the Bond of the Great Lie.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations.

There is no silence in that Abyss: for all that men call Silence is Its Speech.

This Abyss is also called "Hell", and "The Many." Its name is "Consciousness", and "The Universe," among men.

But that which neither is silent, nor speaks, rejoices therein.

KEΦAΛH IA

The Glow-Worm

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Concerning the Holy Three-in-Naught.

Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, are only to be understood by the Master of the Temple.

They are above The Abyss, and contain all contradiction in themselves.

Below them is a seeming duality of Chaos and Babalon; these are called Father and Mother, but it is not so. 

They are called Brother and Sister, but it is not so. 

They are called Husband and Wife, but it is not so. 

The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the Annihilation of the All.

Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is The Way. 

The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan.

How infinite is the distance from This to That! Yet All is Here and Now. 

Nor is there any there or Then; for all that is, what is it but a manifestation, that is, a part, that is, a falsehood, of that which is not?

Yet that which is not neither is nor is not

That which is!

Identity is perfect; therefore the Law of Identity is but a lie. 

For there is no subject, and there is no predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either of these things.

Holy, Holy, Holy are these Truths that I utter, knowing them to be but falsehoods, broken mirrors, troubled waters; hide me, O our Lady, in Thy Womb! for I may not endure the rapture.

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In this utterance of falsehood upon falsehood, whose contradictories are also false, it seems as if That which I uttered not were true. Blessed, unutterably blessed, is this last of the illusions; let me play the man, and thrust it from me! Amen.

KEΦAΛH IB

The Dragon-Flies

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IO is the cry of the lower as OI of the higher.

In figures they are 1001; in letters they are Joy.

For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.

KEΦAΛH Γ

Pilgrim-Talk

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O thou that settest out upon The Path, false is the Phantom that thou seekest.  When 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.

O thou that stridest upon the middle of The Path, no phantoms mock thee.  For the stride's sake thou stridest.

Thus art thou lured along That Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. O thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more.  Faster and faster dos thou fall; thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest.

For there is not Thou upon That Path: thou hast become The Way.

KEΦAΛH IΛ

Onion-Peelings

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The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General at the Expense of the Particular, quoth FRATER PERDURABO, and laughed.

But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeing the 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 could not see the Joke, and those that laughed lest they should be thought not to see the Joke, and thought it safe to act like FRATER PERDURABO.

But though FRATER PERDURABO laughed openly, He also at the same time wept secretly; and in Himself He neither laughed nor wept.

Nor did He mean what He said.

KEΦAΛH IE

The Gun-Barrel

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Mighty and erect is this Will of mine, this Pyramid of fire whose summit is lost in Heaven. 

Upon it have I burned the corpse of my desires.

Mighty and erect is this {Phi-alpha-lambda-lambda-omicron-sigma} of my Will. 

The seed thereof is That which I have borne within me from Eternity; and it is lost within the Body of Our Lady of the Stars. I am not I; I am but an hollow tube to bring down Fire from Heaven.

Mighty and marvellous is this Weakness, this Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth, Me.

This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.

KEΦAΛH IΣ

The Stag-Beetle

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Death implies change and individuality if thou be that which hath no person, which is beyond the changing, even beyond changelessness, what hast thou to do with death?

The bird of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its death.

In love the individuality is slain; who loves not love?

Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it.

Die Daily.

KEΦAΛH IZ

The Swan  

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There is a Swan whose name is Ecstasy: it wingeth from the Deserts of the North; it wingeth through the blue; it wingeth over the fields of rice; at its coming they push forth the green.

In all the Universe this Swan alone is motionless; it seems to move, as the Sun seems to move; such is the weakness of our sight. 

O fool! criest thou?

Amen. Motion is relative: there is Nothing that is still.

Against this Swan I shot an arrow; the white breast poured forth blood.  Men smote me; then, perceiving that I was but a Pure Fool, they let me pass.

Thus and not otherwise I came to the Temple of the Graal.

KEΦAΛH IH

Dewdrops

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Verily, love is death, and death is life to come.

Man returneth not again; the stream floweth not uphill; the old life is no more; there is a new life that is not his.

Yet that life 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.

KEΦAΛH IΘ

The Leopard and the Deer

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The spots of the leopard are the sunlight in the glade; pursue thou the deer stealthily at thy pleasure.

The dappling of the deer is the sunlight in the glade; concealed from the leopard do thou feed at thy pleasure.

Resemble all that surroundeth thee; yet be Thyself and take thy pleasure among the living.

This is that which is written—Lurk!—in The Book of the Law.

KEΦAΛH K

Samson

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The Universe is in equilibrium; therefore He that is without it, though his force be but a feather, can overturn the Universe.

Be not caught within that web, O child of Freedom!

Be not entangled in the universal lie, O child of Truth!

KEΦAΛH KA

The Blind Webster

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It is not necessary to understand; it is enough to adore.

The god may be of clay: adore him; he becomes GOD.

We ignore what created us; we adore what we create. Let us create nothing but GOD!

That which causes us to create is our true father and mother; we create in our own image, which is theirs.

Let us create therefore without fear; for we can create nothing that is not GOD.

KEΦAΛH KB

The Despot

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The waiters of the best eating-houses mock the whole world; they estimate every client at his proper value.

This I know certainly, because they always treat me with profound respect. 

Thus they have flattered me into praising them thus publicly.

Yet it is true; and they have this insight because they serve, and because they can have no personal interest in the affairs of those whom they serve.

An absolute monarch would be absolutely wise and good.

But no man is strong enough to have no interest.

Therefore the best king would be Pure Chance.

It is Pure Chance that rules the Universe; therefore, and only therefore, life is good.

KEΦAΛH KΓ (23)

Skidoo

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What 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 thou camest in.

The Way out is THE WAY. Get out.

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