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Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) -- Aleister Crowley
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. -- Aleister Crowley
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me
almost as if I were going to think! -- Aleister Crowley
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. -- Aleister Crowley
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels. -- Aleister Crowley
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle. -- Aleister Crowley
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. -- Aleister Crowley
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga. -- Aleister Crowley
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. -- Aleister Crowley
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. -- Aleister Crowley
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ... -- Aleister Crowley
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. -- Aleister Crowley
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment. -- Aleister Crowley
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. -- Aleister Crowley
The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it. -- Aleister Crowley
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. -- Aleister Crowley
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. -- Aleister Crowley
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. -- Aleister Crowley
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light. -- Aleister Crowley
Man has the right ... to play as he will ... to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will. -- Aleister Crowley
Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance. -- Aleister Crowley
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. -- Aleister Crowley
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. -- Aleister Crowley
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. -- Aleister Crowley
The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness. -- Aleister Crowley
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves. -- Aleister Crowley
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. -- Aleister Crowley
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. -- Aleister Crowley
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. -- Aleister Crowley
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point.
The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy. -- Aleister Crowley
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. -- Aleister Crowley
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff. -- Aleister Crowley
Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand. -- Aleister Crowley
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine. -- Aleister Crowley
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. -- Aleister Crowley
This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong. -- Aleister Crowley
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. -- Aleister Crowley
She it is, she, that found me
In the morphia honeymoon;
With silk and steel she bound me
In her poisonous milk she drowned me,
Even now her arms surround me -- Aleister Crowley
All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfred Douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action. -- Aleister Crowley
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. -- Aleister Crowley
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science. -- Aleister Crowley
There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod! -- Aleister Crowley
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. -- Aleister Crowley
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god. -- Aleister Crowley
I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, 'Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back. -- Aleister Crowley
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. -- Aleister Crowley
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. -- Aleister Crowley
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. -- Aleister Crowley
The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of
the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female
with the male, of the ego with the non-ego - or what not. -- Aleister Crowley
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness. -- Aleister Crowley
I saw at once the way to appeal to him.. 'Well, of course you know.' I said, 'in really smart circles one has to offer heroin and cocaine to people. It's only a passing fashion, of course, but while it's on, one's really out of it if one doesn't do the right thing. -- Aleister Crowley
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. -- Aleister Crowley
Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music. -- Aleister Crowley
All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Aeon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the Star and the Snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. For why? Because the Lord of Righteousness delighteth in them. (16:6) -- Aleister Crowley
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. -- Aleister Crowley
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. -- Aleister Crowley
This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer -- Aleister Crowley
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. -- Aleister Crowley
O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower. -- Aleister Crowley
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. -- Aleister Crowley
When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual. -- Aleister Crowley
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment. -- Aleister Crowley
When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre. -- Aleister Crowley
It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught. -- Aleister Crowley
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. -- Aleister Crowley
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites. -- Aleister Crowley
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. -- Aleister Crowley
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan -- Aleister Crowley
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. -- Aleister Crowley
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity. -- Aleister Crowley
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself -- Aleister Crowley
Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt -- Aleister Crowley
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people. -- Aleister Crowley
It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul. -- Aleister Crowley
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. -- Aleister Crowley
Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest -- Aleister Crowley
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim. -- Aleister Crowley
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. -- Aleister Crowley
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. -- Aleister Crowley
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come. -- Aleister Crowley
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. -- Aleister Crowley
Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis! -- Aleister Crowley
I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another. -- Aleister Crowley
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. -- Aleister Crowley
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed. -- Aleister Crowley
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that paederastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. -- Aleister Crowley
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. -- Aleister Crowley
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. -- Aleister Crowley
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules - but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. -- Aleister Crowley
It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations. -- Aleister Crowley
And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored. -- Aleister Crowley
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God. -- Aleister Crowley
He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth aether to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day. -- Aleister Crowley
But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. -- Aleister Crowley
64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. -- Aleister Crowley
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. -- Aleister Crowley
I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed. -- Aleister Crowley
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. -- Aleister Crowley
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth! -- Aleister Crowley
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. -- Aleister Crowley
Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily. -- Aleister Crowley
40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher. -- Aleister Crowley
For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself. -- Aleister Crowley
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh. -- Aleister Crowley
The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War. -- Aleister Crowley
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. -- Aleister Crowley
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. -- Aleister Crowley
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. -- Aleister Crowley
The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. -- Aleister Crowley
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA . -- Aleister Crowley
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. -- Aleister Crowley
Who hath the how is careless of the why -- Aleister Crowley
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. -- Aleister Crowley
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all. -- Aleister Crowley
The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble.
Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures. -- Aleister Crowley
Sleep I forget. Her silky breath no longer fans my ears; I dream I float on some forgotten stream that hath a saviour still of death, -- Aleister Crowley
The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. -- Aleister Crowley
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. -- Aleister Crowley
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. -- Aleister Crowley
A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not. -- Aleister Crowley
Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine -- Aleister Crowley
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth. -- Aleister Crowley
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. -- Aleister Crowley
We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia. -- Aleister Crowley
All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed. -- Aleister Crowley
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. -- Aleister Crowley
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression. -- Aleister Crowley
Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart. -- Aleister Crowley
...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. -- Aleister Crowley
To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. -- Aleister Crowley
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. -- Aleister Crowley
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God? -- Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. -- Aleister Crowley
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. -- Aleister Crowley
When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms -- Aleister Crowley
The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul. -- Aleister Crowley
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. -- Aleister Crowley
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are. -- Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. -- Aleister Crowley
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! -- Aleister Crowley
Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China! -- Aleister Crowley
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas
stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. -- Aleister Crowley
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view. -- Aleister Crowley
Love in a night shall live and die,
Love in a day shall wing and fly;
Love in the Spring shall last an hour,
Easily fade a spring-tide flower. -- Aleister Crowley
The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept. -- Aleister Crowley
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. -- Aleister Crowley
A man friends are more capable of working him harm than strangers; and his greatest
danger lies in his own habits. -- Aleister Crowley
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT! -- Aleister Crowley
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.
31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. -- Aleister Crowley
Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable. -- Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license. -- Aleister Crowley
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -- Aleister Crowley
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency. -- Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. -- Aleister Crowley
The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men. -- Aleister Crowley
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! -- Aleister Crowley
Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best. -- Aleister Crowley
Chaos is Peace ... Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms! -- Aleister Crowley
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! -- Aleister Crowley
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. -- Aleister Crowley
The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose. -- Aleister Crowley
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer! -- Aleister Crowley
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. -- Aleister Crowley
All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false. -- Aleister Crowley
The word of Sin is Restriction -- Aleister Crowley
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. -- Aleister Crowley
Love is the law, love under will. -- Aleister Crowley
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. -- Aleister Crowley
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. -- Aleister Crowley
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. -- Aleister Crowley
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. -- Aleister Crowley
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul -- Aleister Crowley
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it. -- Aleister Crowley
Belief is the enemy of knowledge. -- Aleister Crowley
In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.
It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
All life is choked.
This desert is the abyss wherein the Universe.
The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
Yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss -- Aleister Crowley
It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible. -- Aleister Crowley
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations -- Aleister Crowley
Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure. -- Aleister Crowley
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
Magick is the Art of Life itself. -- Aleister Crowley
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results - of an extremely temporary nature. -- Aleister Crowley
Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk. -- Aleister Crowley
Every man and every woman is a star. -- Aleister Crowley
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. -- Aleister Crowley
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
to any other qualities than those of brutes. -- Aleister Crowley
The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga. -- Aleister Crowley
And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour.
- The Cry of the 3rd Aethyr Which Is Called ZON -- Aleister Crowley
Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical. -- Aleister Crowley
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them. -- Aleister Crowley
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so -- Aleister Crowley
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. -- Aleister Crowley
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. -- Aleister Crowley
Like clouds in rain, like seas
Exultant as they roll,
We mix in ecstasies,
And, as breeze melts in breeze,
Thy soul becomes my soul. -- Aleister Crowley
The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will. -- Aleister Crowley
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle -- Aleister Crowley
The key of joy is disobedience. -- Aleister Crowley
The sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul. -- Aleister Crowley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. -- Aleister Crowley
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -- Aleister Crowley
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. -- Aleister Crowley
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein. -- Aleister Crowley
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
A burnt child dreads the fire. -- Aleister Crowley
I am alone. There is no God where I am. -- Aleister Crowley
Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink. -- Aleister Crowley
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self. -- Aleister Crowley
Sanity is a compromise. -- Aleister Crowley
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life ... -- Aleister Crowley