LIBER CCCXXXIII THE BOOK OF LIES FALSELY SO CALLED First published London: E.J. Wieland, 1913. Second edition with commentary Ilfracombe: Haydn Press, 1952 This electronic edition issued by Celepha(cid:239)s Press from somewhere beyond the Tanarian Hills and manifested in the waking world in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Original key entry by Frater E.A.D.N. Formatting and further proofreading by Frater Lege Iudica Atque Ride Last revised 17.07.2004. (c) Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666 New York NY 10116 USA. 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 A REPRINT with an additional commentary to each chapter. (cid:147)Break, break, break At the foot of thy stones, O Sea ! And I would that I could utter The thoughts that arise in me!(cid:148) Celepha(cid:239)s Press Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok - Leeds 2004 COMMENTARY (Title Page) The number of the book is 333, as implying dispersion, so as to correspond with the title, “Breaks” and “Lies”. However, the “one thought is itself untrue”, and therefore its falsifications are relatively true. This book therefore consists of statements as nearly true as is possible to human language. The verse from Tennyson is inserted partly because of the pun on the word “break”; partly because of the reference to the meaning of this title page, as explained above; partly because it is intensely amusing for Crowley to quote Tennyson. There is no joke or subtle meaning in the publisher’s imprint. A∴A∴ Publication in Classes C and D Official for the Grade of Babe of the Abyss ? ! ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Η ΟΥΚ ΕΣΤΙ ΚΕΦΑΛΗ O!1 THE ANTE PRIMAL TRIAD WHICH IS NOT-GOD Nothing is. Nothing Becomes. Nothing is not. THE FIRST TRIAD WHICH IS GOD I AM. I utter The Word. I hear The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.2 THE SECOND TRIAD WHICH IS GOD GOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Genera- tion. GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature. GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony: considera- tion: the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart. THE THIRD TRIAD Bearing: preparing. Wavering: flowing: flashing. Stability: begetting. THE TENTH EMANATION The world. 6 COMMENTARY (The Chapter that is not a Chapter) This chapter, numbered 0, corresponds to the Negative, which is before Kether in the Qabalistic system. The notes of interrogation and exclamation on the previous pages are the other two veils. The meaning of these symbols is fully explained in (cid:147)The Soldier and the Hunchback.(cid:148) This chapter begins by the letter O, followed by a mark of exclamation; its reference to the theogony of (cid:147)Liber Legis(cid:148) is explained in the note, but it also refers to KTEIS PHALLOS and SPERMA, and is the exclamation of wonder or ecstasy, which is the ultimate nature of things. NOTE (1) Silence. Nuit, O; Hadit; Ra-Hoor-Khuit, I. COMMENTARY (The Ante Primal Triad) This is the negative Trinity; its three statements are, in an ultimate sense, identical. They harmonise Being, Becoming, Not- Being, the three possible modes of conceiving the universe. The statement, Nothing is Not, technically equivalent to Something Is, is fully explained in the essay called Berashith. The rest of the chapter follows the Sephirotic system of the Qabalah, and constitutes a sort of quintessential comment upon that system. Those familiar with that system will recognise Kether, Chokmah, Binah, in the First Triad; Daath, in the Abyss; Chesed, Geburah, Tiphareth, in the Second Triad; Netzach, Hod and Yesod in the Third Triad, and Malkuth in the Tenth Emanation. It will be noticed that this cosmogony is very complete; the manifestation even of God does not appear until Tiphareth; and the universe itself not until Malkuth. The chapter many therefore be considered as the most complete treatise on existence ever written. NOTE (2) The Unbroken, absorbing all, is called Darkness. 7 1 ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Α THE SABBATH OF THE GOAT O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan. PAN: 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. 8