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

"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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14

ONION PEELINGS

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.