The story of The Sword of Song published by the SPRT in October 1904 E.V.
Ye Sword of Song
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• Front wrapper of The Sword of Song, called by Christians The Book of The Beast, published by Aleister Crowley’s SPRT in 1904 E.V.
• Why did Aleister Crowley on the front wrapper of The Sword of Song, which was published by the SPRT in October 1904 E.V., write “Ye Sword of Song” although the book’s title page and spine had the former?
The Sword of Song was the second book published by Crowley’s “Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth”, which gave its address as “Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness.” – Read online or download this PDF file/ebook (32 pp.) containing an extract from FOR THE THELEMITES. [May need further proof reading]
(In connection with this extract, see also the extracts "666 and 616"; "Amphora"; and "February 1913 E.V."!)
Corrected Version with an Appendix and new illustrations! Read online or download (Acrobat 9.0 and later):
• Read also about a Buddhist in London in the spring of 1908 E.V. – Aleister Crowley’s old friend Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya (above), a.k.a. Allan Bennett, a.k.a. Allan MacGregor, and discover the ‘G.D. clan MacGregor’.
• The English critic and author, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), circa 1904 E.V.
• The Sword of Song became, in fact, the last book by Aleister Crowley that G. K. Chesterton reviewed, and this hides a fascinating story too!
As to the use of “YE” on the front wrapper of The Sword of Song, G. K. Chesterton had stated in The Daily News on September 24, 1904 E.V.:
"He [Mr. Aleister Crowley] publishes a work, “The Sword of Song: Called by Christians ‘The Book of the Beast,’” and called, I am ashamed to say, “Ye Sword of Song” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man."
• As to gematria and humour, in 1971 E.V. an uncut and unopened presentation copy of the “second” edition of “Ye Sword of Song” appeared for sale. Crowley had inscribed it with the words: “To the Butcher (69) from the Beast (666)”! Was this copy sent to a reviewer who never read it?!
(Book Collecting & Library Monthly, No. 41, Sep. 1971 E.V.)
• Illustration on the back of The Sword of Song with Crowley's name (Aleister E. Crowley) in Hebrew characters adding up to 666.
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WITHOUT THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE YOU ARE LOST
Some have found it strange that Aleister Crowley in The Sword of Song has mentioned a ”the Book of the Law” in ‘Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum’ (p, 87.), before he had received Liber L vel Legis – The Book of the Law – in Cairo in 1904 E.V.. However, as some will know, it is logical to find it predating the reception of Liber Legis, since the words have been used for several centuries by scholars et al. when speaking of the Deuteronomy of the Old Testament – something taught at A.C.’s old University, together with that it was published by the University in several publications. It was knowledge from his time at Cambridge. If it had been written without the mentioning of “Elohim”, it would have been ‘striking’, and somehow ‘strange’! Some have also noticed his use of “One, and one, and one” in Ambrosii (p. 81.), which clearly is knowledge from his GD days, and something taken from the Kabbalah – and words that are naturally used by Nuit in Liber L vel Legis when addressing the ‘fools’: “My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?” (I,[48.])
In 621 BC, the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, the “Book of the Law” was discovered in the temple, and this book, probably the earliest form of the present book of Deuteronomy, outlined the reform that Josiah tried to put into practice for all of Israel. For the first time, a book was accepted as the rule or norm of the community’s life.
• From: The Holy Bible; In the Authorised Version; With Notes and Introduction; By Chr. Wordsworth, D.D.. Vol. I.; Part II. London, Rivingtons, 1869, p. 273.
‘WITHOUT THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE YOU ARE LOST’ is found in the PDF file/ebook above!
The Word of the Law is θελημα – Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
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