Book of Lies ((with Commentary by the Author))
List Price:
$18.95
- Availability: Confirm prior to ordering
- Branding: minimum 50 pieces (add’l costs below)
- Check Freight Rates (branded products only)
Branding Options (v), Availability & Lead Times
- 1-Color Imprint: $2.00 ea.
- Promo-Page Insert: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed, single-sided page)
- Belly-Band Wrap: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed)
- Set-Up Charge: $45 per decoration
- Availability: Product availability changes daily, so please confirm your quantity is available prior to placing an order.
- Branded Products: allow 10 business days from proof approval for production. Branding options may be limited or unavailable based on product design or cover artwork.
- Unbranded Products: allow 3-5 business days for shipping. All Unbranded items receive FREE ground shipping in the US. Inquire for international shipping.
- RETURNS/CANCELLATIONS: All orders, branded or unbranded, are NON-CANCELLABLE and NON-RETURNABLE once a purchase order has been received.
Product Details
Author:
Aleister Crowley
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
200
Publisher:
Red Wheel Weiser (June 1, 1986)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780877285168
ISBN-10:
0877285160
Dimensions:
5.375" x 8.25"
File:
Redwheel-RedWheelWeiser_01242023_P5836915_onix21-20230123.xml
Folder:
Redwheel
List Price:
$18.95
As low as:
$14.59
Publisher Identifier:
P-MISC
Discount Code:
A
Pub Discount:
65
Overview
This edition of Aleister Crowley’s witty and instructive collection of paradoxes includes commentary by the author rarely found in other publications of the work.
Written by the famed English occultist Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies was first published in 1913. The book includes 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding qabalistic meaning.
Around 1921, Crowley wrote a short commentary about each chapter, assisting the reader in the qabalistic interpretation. That commentary is included in this edition from Weiser Books.
“Sometimes the text is serious and straightforward,” writes Crowley of The Book of Lies, “sometimes its obscure oracles demand deep knowledge of the Qabalah for interpretation, others contain obscure allusions, play upon words, secrets expressed in cryptogram, double or triple meaning which must be combined in order to appreciate the full flavour; others again are subtly ironical or cynical. At first sight the book is a jumble of nonsense intended to insult the reader. It requires infinite study, sympathy, intuition and initiation. Given these I do not hesitate to claim that in none other of my writings have I given so profound and comprehensive an exposition of my philosophy.”
Written by the famed English occultist Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies was first published in 1913. The book includes 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding qabalistic meaning.
Around 1921, Crowley wrote a short commentary about each chapter, assisting the reader in the qabalistic interpretation. That commentary is included in this edition from Weiser Books.
“Sometimes the text is serious and straightforward,” writes Crowley of The Book of Lies, “sometimes its obscure oracles demand deep knowledge of the Qabalah for interpretation, others contain obscure allusions, play upon words, secrets expressed in cryptogram, double or triple meaning which must be combined in order to appreciate the full flavour; others again are subtly ironical or cynical. At first sight the book is a jumble of nonsense intended to insult the reader. It requires infinite study, sympathy, intuition and initiation. Given these I do not hesitate to claim that in none other of my writings have I given so profound and comprehensive an exposition of my philosophy.”
