THE-BOOK-OF-LIES-Aliester-Crowley

This chapter gives a list of those special messengersof the Infinite who initiate periods. they are calledDinosaurs because of their seeming to be terribledevouring creatures. They are Masters of the Temple,for their number is 6 (1 plus 2 plus 3), the mysticnumber of Binah; but they are called "None", becausethey have attained. If it were not so, they would becalled "six" in its bad sense of mere intellect.They are called Seven, although they are Eight,because Lao-tzu counts as nought, owing to the natureof his doctrine. The reference to their "living not" isto be found in Liber 418.The word "Perdurabo" means "I will endure untothe end". The allusion is explained in the note.Siddartha, or Gotama, was the name of the lastBudda.Krishna was the principal incarnation of the IndianVishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder ofVedantism.Tahuti, or Thoth, the Egyptian God of Wisdom.Mosheh, Moses, the founder of the Hebrew system.Dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the East.Mahmud, Mohammed.All these were men; their Godhead is the result ofmythopoeia.NOTES(5) Masters of the Temple, whose grade has themystic number 6 (= 1 + 2 + 3).(6) These are not eight, as apparent; for Lao-tzucounts as 0.(7) The legend of "Christ" is only a corruption andperversion of other legends. Especially of Dionysus:compare the account of Christ before Herod/Pilate inthe gospels, and of Dionysus before Pentheus in"The Baccae".(8) O, the last letter of Perdurabo, is Naught.[25]8{Kappa-epsilon-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Eta}STEEPED HORSEHAIRMind is a disease of semen.