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[184]COMMENTARY (ΠΖ)This chapter is technically one of the Laylah chapters.It means that, however great may be one's ownachievements the gifts from on high are still better.The Sigil is taken from a Gnostic talisman, andrefers to the Sacrament.[185]88ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΗGOLD BRICKSTeach us Your secret, Master! yap my Yahoos.Then for the hardness of their hearts, and for thesoftness of their heads, I taught them Magick.But...alas!Teach us Your real secret, Master! how to becomeinvisible, how to acquire love, and oh! beyond all,how to make gold.But how much gold will you give me for the Secretof Infinite Riches?Then said the foremost and most foolish; Master, itis nothing; but here is an hundred thousandpounds.This did I deign to accept, and whispered in his earthis secret:A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MINUTE.[186]COMMENTARY (ΠΗ)The term "gold bricks" is borrowed from Americanfinance.The chapter is a setting of an old story.A man advertises that he could tell anyone how tomake four hundred a year certain, and would do soon receipt of a shilling. To every sender he dispatcheda post-card with these words: "Do as I do."The word "sucker" is borrowed from Americanfinance.The moral of the chapter is, that it is no good tryingto teach people who need to be taught.
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΘ[187]89UNPR<strong>OF</strong>ESSIONAL CONDUCTI am annoyed about the number 89.I shall avenge myself by writing nothing in thischapter.That, too, is wise; for since I am annoyed, I couldnot write even a reasonably decent lie.[188]COMMENTARY (ΠΘ)Frater P. had been annoyed by a scurvy doctor, thenumber of whose house was 89.He shows that his mind was completely poisoned inrespect of that number by his allowing himself to beannoyed.(But note that a good Qabalist cannot err. "In Himall is right." 89 is Body-that which annoys-andthe Angel of the Lord of Despair and Cruelty.Also "Silence" and "Shut Up".The four meanings completely describe the chapter.)ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ρ[189]90STARLIGHTBehold! I have lived many years, and I have travelledin every land that is under the dominion of theSun, and I have sailed the seas from pole to pole.Now do I lift up my voice and testify that all isvanity on earth, except the love of a good woman,and that good woman LAYLAH. And I testifythat in heaven all is vanity (for I have journeyedoft, and sojourned oft, in every heaven), except thelove of OUR LADY BABALON. And I testifythat beyond heaven and earth is the love of OURLADY NUIT.And seeing that I am old and well stricken in years,
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Η ΟΥΚΕΣΤΙ ΚΕ
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[12]COMMENTARY ({Alpha})The shape o
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Gamma}THE OYSTERThe Br
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eing the Holy Ghost, the semen; the
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This chapter gives a list of those
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[28]COMMENTARY ({Theta})Teth is the
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In this utterance of falsehood upon
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O thou that stridest upon the middl
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Dome which hideth, which absorbeth,
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word, stillness, so long as motion
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create nothing that is not GOD.[52]
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identical with IAO.The rest of the
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official ritual of the A∴A∴NOTE
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THE POLE-STARLove is all virtue, si
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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Lambda-Gamma}BAPHOMETA
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Death is as beautiful and necessary
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