ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚϜ The Elephant and the Tortoise in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“The Second, who is the Fourth, the Demiurge, whom all nations of Men call The First, is a lie grafted upon a lie, a lie multiplied by a lie.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “But the vulgarians conceive of nothing beyond the creator, and therefore call him The First.”
  2. “The Absolute and the Conditioned together make The One Absolute.”
  3. “Fourfold is He, the Elephant upon whom the Universe is poised: but the carapace of the Tortoise supports and covers all.”
  4. “This Tortoise is sixfold, the Holy Hexagram.”
  5. “The secret sense of these words is to be sought in the numeration thereof.”