Note 15 to ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚϜ in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“In nature the Tortoise has 6 members at angles of 60°.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Fourfold is He, the Elephant upon whom the Universe is poised: but the carapace of the Tortoise supports and covers all.”
  2. “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.”
  3. “This Tortoise is sixfold, the Holy Hexagram.”
  4. “The road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome.”
  5. “The secret sense of these words is to be sought in the numeration thereof.”