Aleister Crowley Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.
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.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas
stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
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!
Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt
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.
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
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.
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.
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.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
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.
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.
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.
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.