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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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Mind, Process

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• 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

  Education, Memories, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hate, People, Christ

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Reality, Paganism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Understanding, Action

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• 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

  Angel, Magic, Uniting

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Believe, Artist, Men

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

  Aleister Crowley

  Crush, Country, Sex

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.213, Booklassic

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Political, Politics

  Book of the Law (1909)

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• 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

  Law, Regulation, Difficult

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Views, Ego, World

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Willpower, Talent, Virtue

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• 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

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Wasserman, Nancy Wasserman, Aleister Crowley (2013). “To Perfect This Feast: A Performance Commentary on the Gnostic Mass”, p.83, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• 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

  Real, Needs, Fantastic

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• 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

  Prejudice, Sin, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mistake, Mankind, Thelema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Hallucinations, Lord, Abyss

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

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• 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

  Struggle, Self, Long

  Aleister Crowley (1905). “The Works of Aleister Crowley”, Yoga Publications Society

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• 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

  Reading, Discipline, Mind

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

  Aleister Crowley

  Dream, Sleep, Blood

  Aleister Crowley (1913). “Liber CCCXXXIII [i.e. Trecentesimus Tricesimus Tertius]: The Book of Lies, which is Also Falsely Called, Breaks : the Wanderings Or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is Itself Untrue”

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