Aleister Crowley Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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

• I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

  Aleister Crowley

  Views, Waste, Language

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.71, Weiser Books

• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hands, Plums, Verbs

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