Book of Lies

the wanderings of falsifications of the one thought of Frater Perdurabo (Aleister Crowley), which thought is itself untrue.

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Aleister Crowley: Book of Lies (Hardcover, 1973, Krishna Pr)

library binding, 196 pages

English language

Published Oct. 18, 1973 by Krishna Pr.

ISBN:
978-0-87968-115-9
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OCLC Number:
2696086

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3 stars (10 reviews)

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How could Yeats push this fellow poet down the stairs?

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The Book of Lies is more readable than The Book of the Law but be aware that Crowley puts some verse in there and it's not great. There's also a point where the narrator (Crowley) writes about Frater Perdabo (also Crowley) getting upset with his imp (also also Crowley.) I think it's meant to be charming, but it comes across as tedious to me for a person to write about themselves in the third person talking to themselves in the third person.

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"Nature is wasteful; but how well She can afford it!
Nature is false; but I'm a bit of a liar myself.
Nature is useless; but then how beautiful she is!
Nature is cruel; but I too am a Sadist.
The game goes on; it y have been too rough for
Buddha, but it's (if anything) too dull for me."


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

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  • Psychology