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THE LOST CONTINENT
By Aleister Crowley
Ordo Templi Orientis
P.O Box 2303
Berkeley, CA 94702
(C) COPYRIGHT O.T.O.
June 21, 1985 e.v.
Sun in Cancer
Moon in Leo
AN 81 e.n.
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The Lost Continent
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PREFACE
Last year I was chosen to succeed the venerable K-Z--who had it
in his mind to die, that is, to join Them in Venus, as one of the
Seven Heirs of Atlantis, and I have been appointed to declare, so
far as may be found possible, the truth about that mysterious
lost land. Of course, no more than one seventh of the wisdom is
ever confided to one of the Seven, and the Seven meet in council
but once in every thirty-three years. But its preservation is
guaranteed by the interlocked systems of "dreaming true" and of
"preparation of the antinomy". The former almost explains itself;
the latter is almost inconceivable to normal man. Its essence is
to train a man to be anything by training him to be its opposite.
At the end of anything, think they, it turns out to be its
opposite, and that opposite is thus mastered without having been
soiled by the labours of the student, and without the false
impressions of early learning being left upon the mind.
I myself, for example, had unknowingly been trained to record
these observations by the life of a butterfly. All my impressions
came clear on the soft wax of my brain; I had never worried
because the scratch on the wax in no way resembled the sound it
represented. In other words, I observed perfectly because I never
knew that I was observing. So, if you pay sufficient attention to
your heart, you will make it palpitate.
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