ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΔ The Hawk and the Blindworm in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“silence is but the negative side of Truth; the positive side is beyond even silence.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Therefore have Adepts praised silence; at least it does not mislead as speech does.”
  2. “Be not caught within that web, O child of Freedom! Be not entangled in the universal lie, O child of Truth!”
  3. “Dee was himself told originally to adapt the form from several in his own collection of Grimoires; but which one, was not made clear either by Dee or the Angels. A number of variations on the Seal of God or Seal of God’s Truth are to be found in MSS owned by Dee.”
  4. “Also, since these Fetters are as a Bond almost universal, be instant to declare the Law of Liberty, and the full Knowledge of all Truth that appertaineth to this Matter”
  5. “We had quarrelled about philosophy and physics. His mind was intensely positive, brutally matter-of-fact, but capable of appreciating subtlety, and far more open to new facts and theories than most of his opponents supposed. His arrogance was, to a great extent, the Freudian protection against his own uncertainty. He knew psychology, he knew men; he understood business; and in his capacity of instructor at Harvard, he had acquired the habit of forming and directing minds. So much I knew, and I pictured my duel with him in romantic terms of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty.”