Aleister Crowley Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• 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.

• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Opportunity, Errors

• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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

• 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

• Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

  Aleister Crowley

  Emotional, Black, Magic

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

• You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Mean, Squares

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Reality, Magic

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