



"Break, break, break

At the foot of thy stones, O Sea!

And I would that I could utter

The thoughts that arise in me!"





52





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THE B ULL- B AITING





Fourscore and eleven books wrote I; in each did I

expound THE GREAT WORK fully, from The

beginning even unto The End thereof.

Then at last came certain men unto me, saying:

O Master! Expound thou THE GREAT WORK

unto us, O Master!

And I held my peace.

O generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you

from the Wrath that is fallen upon you?

O Babblers, Prattlers, Talkers, Loquacious Ones,

Tatlers, Chewers of the Red Rag that inflameth

Apis the Redeemer to fury, learn first what is

Work! and THE GREAT WORK is not so far

beyond!









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52 is BN , the number of the Son, Osiris-Apis, the

Redeemer, with whom the Master (Fra. P.) identifies

himself. he permits himself for a moment the pleasure

of feeling his wounds; and, turning upon his generation,







The fourscore-and-eleven books do not, we think, gores it with his horns.The fourscore-and-eleven books do not, we think,

refer to the ninety-one chapters of this little master-

piece, or even to the numerous volumes he has penned,

but rather to the fact that 91 is the number of Amen,

implying the completeness of his work.





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In the last paragraph is a paranomasia. "To chew

the red rag" is a phrase for to talk aimlessly and per-

sistently, while it is notorious that a red cloth will excite

the rage of a bull.



















35 + 56



























The phrase, “Early in the 21st Century” provides us with a clue. Tarot Key 21 is The World in most tarot decks. Aleister Crowley names it The Aeon. It symbolizes the cosmic mind forever dancing at the heart of creation, but it also signifies the entirety of our age, our eon. Identification with this cosmic mind is often referred to as enlightenment, though this rude generalization hardly addresses the nuance of identification with the Cosmos itself. So it is that our story is one of ancient origins. It occurs early in the life of the Universal Mind.









21 Days





































Through a glass grade darkly …

















51













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TERRIER-WORK





Doubt.

Doubt thyself.

Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself.

Doubt all.

Doubt even if thou doubtest all.

It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt

there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the

snake!

The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted

Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind,

until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds!

Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay!

Then, wind the Mort!









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The number 51 means failure and pain, and its

subject is appropriately doubt.

The title of the chapter is borrowed from the health-

giving and fascinating sport of fox-hunting, which

Frater Perdurabo followed in his youth.

This chapter should be read in connection with "The

Soldier and the Hunchback" of which it is in some sort

an epitome.

Its meaning is sufficiently clear, but in paragraphs

6 and 7 it will be noticed that the identification of the

Soldier with the Hunchback has reached such a pitch

that the symbols are interchanged, enthusiasm being

represented as the sinuous snake, scepticism as the

Goat of the Sabbath. In other words, a state is reached

in which destruction is as much joy as creation.

(Compare Chapter 46.)

Beyond that is a still deeper state of mind, which is

THAT.







































I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for his.



Liber AL vel Legis























I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for his.





As Leon’s interrogation continues, Holden poses to him a scenario, “You’re in a desert. You’re walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise…” Leon interrupts with questions like, “Which desert?” and “How come I be there?” To his first question, Holden answers, “It doesn’t matter”, pointing to the truth that there is only one desert, the vast expanse that separates Tiphareth from Keter, along which the 13th path of wisdom runs. To Leon’s second question, the blade runner replies, “Maybe you’re fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself”, alluding to the environmental prompting that drives consciousness across that expanse to Keter. This “wanting to be by your Self” is the chief motivator for all actions.