The Book of Lies Quotes

“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking.
Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life.
Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.
Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“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.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.
It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
All life is choked.
This desert is the abyss wherein the Universe.
The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
Yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“The early bird catches the worm and the twelve-year-old prostitute attracts the ambassador.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“10. WINDLESTRAWS. KEΦAΔH I WINDLESTRAWS 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.”
― Aleister Crowley, Book Of Lies

“I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Time and Space are Adverbs.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. Die Daily.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on  awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Cynicism is a great cure for over-study.
There is a great deal of cynicism in this book, in one place and another. It should be regarded as Angostura Bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse which were else too sweet. It prevents one from slopping over into sentimentality.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Thoughts are false.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Verily, love is death, and death is life to come.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a  new function of brain is established.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“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.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Alas!  for the Kingdom wherein all these are at war.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Duality begat the Conjunction.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies