Commentary (ΚΑ) in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“It is the critical spirit which is the Devil, and gives rise to the appearance of evil.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The fact remains that in vice, as in everything else, some things satiate, others refresh. Any game in which perfection is easily attained soon ceases to amuse, although in the beginning its fascination is so violent. Witness the tremendous, but transitory, vogue of ping-pong and diabolo. Those games in which perfection is impossible never cease to attract.”
  2. “Zoroaster describes God as having the head of the Hawk, and a spiral force. It will be difficult to understand this chapter without some experience in the transvaluation of values, which occurs throughout the whole of this book, in nearly every other sentence. Transvaluation of values is only the moral aspect of the method of contradiction.”
  3. “O is the Yoni; T, the Lingam; and U, the Hierophant; the 5th card of the Tarot, the Pentagram. It is thus practically identical with IAO”
  4. “There may be some significance in the chapter number, which is that of Jechidah the highest unity of the soul.”
  5. “He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell 3 3 3–5 5 5 5 5–3 3 3 and places the Fire in the Thurible. I strike the Bell: I light the flame: I utter the mysterious Name. ABRAHADABRA He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell.”