Aleister Crowley Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Understanding, Action

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

• 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

• Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Compassion, Understanding, Spells

  Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.96, Weiser Books

• 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

• Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Lying, Pyramids

• 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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