The Book of Lies (Liber CCCXXXIII)

Which is also falsely called Breaks.

The Wanderings or Falsifications of

the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo.

which Thought is itself Untrue.

 

 

There's some controversy over whether this book was published in 1912 or 1913. The evidence predominantly points to the book being published in 1913 and not in 1912 as Crowley relates in his meeting with Theodor Reuss.

 

Published Date:

1913

Publisher:

Weiland and Co.

Printer:

 

Published At:

33 Avenue Studios, South Kensington, London.

Pages:

116 + 15 pages of advertisements + i.

Price:

State (b) priced at one guinea.

State (a):

10 copies printed on vellum and bound in a full morocco leather binding.

State (b):

Unknown number of copies printed on hand-made paper and bound in black cloth.

 

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Contents

 

- The Sabbath of the Goat

- The Cry of the Hawk

- The Oyster

- Peaches

- The Battle of the Ants

- Caviar

- The Dinosaurs

- Steeped Horsehair

- The Branks

- Windlestraws

- The Glow-Worm

- The Dragon-Flies

- Pilgrim-Talk

- Onion-Peelings

- The Gun-Barrel

- The Stag-Beetle

- The Swan

- Dewdrops

- The Leopard and the Deer

- Samson

- The Blind Webster

- The Despot

- Skidoo !

- The Hawk and the Blindworm

- HE STAR RUBY

- The Elephant and the Tortoise

- The Sorcerer

- The Pole-Star

- The Southern Cross

- John-a-Dreams

- The Garotte

- The Mountaineer

- BAPHOMET

- The Smoking Dog

- Venus of Milo

- THE STAR SAPPHIRE

- Dragons

- Lambskin

- The Looby

- The HIMOG

- Corn Beef Hash

- Dust-Devils

- Mulberry Tops

- THE MASS OF THE PHOENIX

- Chinese Music

- Buttons and Rosettes

- Windmill-Words

- Môme Raths

- WARATAH-BLOSSOMS

- The Vigil of St. Hubert

- Terrier Work

- The Bull-Baiting

- The Dowser

- Eaves-Droppings

- The Drooping Sunflower

- Trouble with Twins

- The Duck-Billed Platypus

- Haggai-Howlings

- The Tailless Monkey

- The Wound of Amfortas

- The Fool’s Knot

- Twig?

- Margery Daw

- Constancy

- Sic Transeat——

- The Praying Mantis

- Sodom-Apples

- Manna

- The Way to Succeed—and the Way to Suck Eggs!

- Broomstick-Babblings

- King’s College Chapel

- Hashed Pheasant

- The Devil, The Ostrich, and the Orphan Child

- Carey Street

- Plover’s Eggs

- Phaeton

- THE SUBLIME AND SUPREME SEPTENARY IN ITS MATURE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION THROUGH MATTER : AS IT IS WRITTEN : AN HE-GOAT ALSO.

- Wheel and—Woa!

- The Bal Bullier

- Blackthorn

- Louis Lingg

- Bortsch : also Imperial Purple (and A PUNIC WAR).

- The Blind Pig

- The Avalanche

- Borborygmi

- TAT

- Mandarin-Meals

- Gold Bricks

- Unprofessional Conduct

- Starlight

- The Heikle

 

 

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