Name: Book of Lies
ISBN: 9780877285168

Book of Lies

The Book of Lies(full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333]) was written by English occultist Aleister Crowley (using the pen name of Frater Perdurabo) and first published in 1912 or 1913. The book 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. Around 1921, Crowley wrote a short commentary about each chapter, assisting the reader in the qabalistic interpretation. Several chapters and a photograph in the book reference Leila Waddell, who Crowley called Laylah, and who, as Crowley's influential Scarlet Woman, acted as his muse during the writing process of this volume.

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techloadSep 2019

The Book of Lies, by Aleister Crowley.

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microtherionMay 2023

"We ignore what created us; we adore what we create." — Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

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helsinkiJan 2023

I’m surprised nobody as mentioned The Book of Lies, yet. It is arguably the piece of Crowley literature that the secret societies actually read.

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lostgameDec 2018

Source: previous O.T.O. member and Initiate, as well as an Initate of another particular Secret Society.

Um, no. Sorry. I don’t know what you read; but maybe go check out ‘The Book of Lies’, or a number of Crowley’s other, more taboo and dark pieces of literature.

Ritual Magick, especially as Crowley and Parsons participated in, may include the likes of summoning archangels and demons, the use of altered states including the use of extreme hallucinogens and other drugs.

While I agree the philosophy of the O.T.O./Thelema is not that revolutionary compared to many Eastern schools of thought; its rituals and practices are far from it.

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