Aleister Crowley Quotes - Page 4

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• 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

  Missing, Listening, Imagine

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• 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

  Self, Perfection, Path

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• 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

  Religious, Dirty, Sin

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• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Practice, People

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

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• 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

  People, Police, Spy

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.5, Weiser Books

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• 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

  Mean, People, Doe

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

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• 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

  Doctors, People, World

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 17, 1969.

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Satan, Staff

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Compassion, Understanding, Spells

  Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.96, Weiser Books

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• 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

  Running, Alcohol, Risk

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

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Sex, Names, Perception

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

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Wisdom, Science, Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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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• For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

  Aleister Crowley

  Perfect, Lust, Purpose

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.5, Public Lex

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

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  Capacity, Thee, All Things

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 5.”, Lulu.com

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• The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men

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

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  Fake People, Children, Fear

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 49, 1969.

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• 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

  Practice, Essentials, Students

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

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• Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

  Aleister Crowley

  Prayer, Invoke, Thyself

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Dog, Fall, Pits

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.10, Public Lex

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• 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

  Art, Magic, World

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 6.”, Lulu.com

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