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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

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.

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

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.

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

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

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.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

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,

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life ...

The sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

I am alone. There is no God where I am.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

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.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas
stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

Who hath the how is careless of the why

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

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.

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.

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!

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt

The word of Sin is Restriction

Every man and every woman is a star.

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.

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.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

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.

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.

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

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.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.
31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

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.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

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.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

The key of joy is disobedience.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

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.

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.

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.

Sanity is a compromise.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.