THE-BOOK-OF-LIES-Aliester-Crowley

phallus, for it is not only a source of water, but highlyelastic, while the reference to the seasons alludes to the wellknownlines of the late Lord Tennyson:"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove,In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughtsof love."-Locksley Hall.In paragraph 7 the place of life, the universe of animalsouls, is identified with the toad, which"Ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head"-Romeo and Julietthisjewel being the divine spark in man, and indeed in allthat "lives and moves and has its being". Note this phrase,which is highly significant; the word "lives" excluding themineral kingdom, the word "moves" the vegetable kingdom,and the phrase "has its being" the lower animals, includingwoman.This "toad" and "jewel" are further identified with theLotus and jewel of the well-known Buddhist phrase andthis seems to suggest that this "toad" is the Yoni; thesuggestion is further strengthened by the concluding phrasein brackets, "Keep us from evil", since, although it is theplace of life, the means of grace, it may be ruinous.[117]54ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Nu-Delta}Five and forty apprentice masons out of work!Fifteen fellow-craftsmen out of work!Three Master Masons out of work!All these sat on their haunches waiting The Reportof the Sojourner; for THE WORD was lost.This is the Report of the Sojourners: THE WORDwas LOVE;(23) and its number is An Hundred andEleven.Then said each AMO;(24) for its number is An Hundredand Eleven.Each took the Trowel from his LAP,(25) whose numberis AN Hundred and Eleven.Each called moreover on the Goddess NINA,(26) forHer number is An Hundred and Eleven.