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• My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

  Aleister Crowley

  Quality, Chance, Nervous

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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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• Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Philosophy, Independent, Greatness

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• Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

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  Light, World, Welcome

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

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  Men, Mind, Process

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

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  Pain, Exercise, Thinking

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

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  Father, Cutting, Men

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

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• The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

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  Inspirational, Life, Philosophy

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• I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

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  Hate, People, Christ

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• 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.

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  Angel, Magic, Uniting

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

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  Hallucinations, Lord, Abyss

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

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• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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  Law, Political, Politics

  Book of the Law (1909)

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• The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

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  Mastery, Way, Break

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

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• It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

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  Law, Regulation, Difficult

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

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  Reading, Discipline, Mind

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

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  Believe, Artist, Men

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

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  Art, Understanding, Action

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

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• To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

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  Religious, Dirty, Sin

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• Every man and every woman is a star.

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  Stars, Men, Intriguing

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

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• If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

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  Mad, Religion, Atheism

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

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  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

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  Statistics, Pay, Customers

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 21, 1954.

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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.

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  Stars, Principles, Orbit

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

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• It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

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  World, Stuff, Environment

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

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  Love Is, Principles, Tolerable

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