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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

Thinking, Feelings, Strange

Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.260, Booklassic

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

Aleister Crowley

Daughter, Sunset, Night

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

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Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Aleister Crowley

Order, Understanding, Enlightenment

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Aleister Crowley

God, Taken, Eye

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

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

Aleister Crowley

Liberty, Individual, States

Aleister Crowley (2017). “The Book of Law and The Book of Lies”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.

Aleister Crowley

Spiritual, Children, Heart

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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

Aleister Crowley

Silly, Boredom, Way

Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

Aleister Crowley

Children, Wine, Fire

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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

Passion, Patriotic, Storm

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

Aleister Crowley

Country, Character, Journey

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We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

Aleister Crowley

Atheism, Pigeons, Method

Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

Aleister Crowley

Passion, School, Thinking

"Energized Enthusiasm: A Note On Theurgy". The Equinox, Volume 1, No. 9, www.the-equinox.org. Spring 1913.

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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Aleister Crowley

Love, People, Insanity

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But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Aleister Crowley

America, Oasis, Europe

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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.

Aleister Crowley

Names, Holy Grail, Quests

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

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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

Men, Curves, Life And Death

Aleister Crowley, “Thanatos Basileos”

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

Aleister Crowley

Mother, Lying, Way

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

Aleister Crowley

Writing, Law, Appeals

Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 10.”, Lulu.com

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As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

Aleister Crowley

Self Confidence, Men, Numbers

"Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

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It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

Aleister Crowley

Men, Order, Omnipotence

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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

Aleister Crowley

Book, Autumn, Men

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Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

Aleister Crowley

Men, Law, Ideas

Aleister Crowley (1970). “777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae”, Weiser Books

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

Aleister Crowley

Mean, Journey, Steps

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

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The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

Aleister Crowley

Girl, Country, Dream

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

Aleister Crowley

Propositions, Conditions

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

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Born: October 12, 1875
Died: December 1, 1947
Occupation: Poet
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