Aleister Crowley Quotes

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• There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Grace, Guilt

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

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• The key of joy is disobedience.

  Aleister Crowley

  Keys, Joy, Disobedience

  Aleister Crowley, “Hymn To Lucifer”

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Balance, Illusion, Destruction

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Inertia, Universe

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

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

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Opinion, Disregard

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• It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ignorant, Path

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

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• The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... 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. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life And Love, Book, Men

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

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• Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Reality, Magic

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• Sanity is a compromise.

  Aleister Crowley

  Compromise, Sanity

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.37, Weiser Books

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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 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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• Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Assuming, Herds

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Conquer, Prestige, Death And Dying

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.255, Weiser Books

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• People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

  Aleister Crowley

  Pain, Exercise, Thinking

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.7, Weiser Books

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• To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

  Aleister Crowley

  Moving, Yoga, Mind

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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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• Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Brain, Say Anything

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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• The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Atheism, Force

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.150, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

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

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• Every intentional act is a magical act.

  Aleister Crowley

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

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• 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

  Stars, Principles, Orbit

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

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• 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

  Father, Cutting, Men

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

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• 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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