Thelema Quotes

• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Faith, Morning, Philosophical

  "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.

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• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Mistake, Mean

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

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Causing Change, Esoteric

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.93, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Symphony, Silence

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.173, Weiser Books

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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, Willful Ignorance

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

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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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• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Love Life, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.360, Weiser Books

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• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ordinary, Morality

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

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• Every man and every woman is a star.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Men, Intriguing

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

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• There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

  Aleister Crowley

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

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Song, Sex, Self

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Evil, Vagueness, Doe

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 33, 1969.

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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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• Love is the law, love under will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Law, Intriguing

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.6, Public Lex

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Mistake, Mankind, Ideals

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

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Unions, Sake, Chance

  Aleister Crowley, Stephen Skinner (1996). “Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley: Tunisia 1923”, p.64, Weiser Books

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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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• 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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• 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Weakness, Doe, Cry

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Use, Financial, Submission

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

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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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