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The people who have really made history are the martyrs. — Aleister Crowley

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

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. — 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

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

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. — 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

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

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

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. — Aleister Crowley

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. — Aleister Crowley

Love is the law, love under will. — Aleister Crowley

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

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

Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily. — 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

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

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

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

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

The key of joy is disobedience. — Aleister Crowley

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. — Aleister Crowley

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. — 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

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. — Aleister Crowley

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

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

I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life. — Rainbow Rowell

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

Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink. — Aleister Crowley

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

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

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

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life ... — Aleister Crowley

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so — 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 man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. — Aleister Crowley

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. — Aleister Crowley

I am alone. There is no God where I am. — Aleister Crowley

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

VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe. — Alan Moore

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

Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine — Aleister Crowley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ... — Aleister Crowley

Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical. — Aleister Crowley

The word of Sin is Restriction — 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

A burnt child dreads the fire. — Aleister Crowley

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

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

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

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

This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer — Aleister Crowley

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

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul. — Aleister Crowley

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

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. — Aleister Crowley

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

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

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. — Aleister Crowley

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

Belief is the enemy of knowledge. — Aleister Crowley

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer! — Aleister Crowley

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

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. — Aleister Crowley

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. — Aleister Crowley

Sanity is a compromise. — Aleister Crowley

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

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations — Aleister Crowley

Every man and every woman is a star. — 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

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