ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΑ The Garotte in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“ITS doing, which is no-doing, is simple and yet complex, is neither free nor necessary” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “IT moves from motion into rest, and rests from rest into motion. These IT does alway, for time is not. So that IT does neither of these things. IT does THAT one thing which we must express by two things neither of which possesses any rational meaning.”
  2. “In nature the Tortoise has 6 members at angles of 60°.”
  3. “This now introduces the principal character of this book, Laylah, who is the ultimate feminine symbol, to be interpreted on all planes.”
  4. “Both ’23’ and ‘Skidoo’ are American words meaning ‘Get out’. This chapter describes the Great Work under the figure of a man ridding himself of all his accidents.”
  5. “But in this chapter, little hint is given of anything beyond physical love. It is called the Pole-Star, because Laylah is the one object of devotion to which the author ever turns.”