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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Illiterate Person, Greek

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

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  Believe, Practice, People

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

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. 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

  Regret, Father, Mean

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

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• Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Light, Law

  Aleister Crowley, John Symonds (1974). “The Complete Astrological Writings”, p.120, Dubois Publishing

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• I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Satan, Staff

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• 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

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• Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

  Aleister Crowley

  Missing, Listening, Imagine

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• I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

  Aleister Crowley

  Education, Memories, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Sex, Philosophical

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• Magick is the Art of Life itself.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art

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

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• Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

  Aleister Crowley

  Prayer, Invoke, Thyself

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• 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.

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• The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mistake, Mankind, Thelema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am alone. There is no God where I am.

  Aleister Crowley

  There Is No God

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.9, Public Lex

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• The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men

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• Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

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  Capacity, Thee, All Things

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 5.”, Lulu.com

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• He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

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  Dog, Fall, Pits

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.10, Public Lex

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• The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

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  Practice, Essentials, Students

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

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• I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

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  Book, Soul, Way

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

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• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Circles, Tasks, Firsts

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

  Aleister Crowley

  Foolish

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

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• The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

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  Doctors, People, World

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 17, 1969.

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