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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

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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Aleister Crowley

Yoga, Hands, Two

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The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

Aleister Crowley

Privilege, Serious, Savages

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I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

Aleister Crowley

Genius, Alternatives, Opinion

Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 9.”, Lulu.com

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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Aleister Crowley

Belief, Made, Infantile

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 54, 1969.

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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

Determination, Destiny, Ideas

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.

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How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
to any other qualities than those of brutes.

Aleister Crowley

Class, Quality, Looks

"Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

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Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Aleister Crowley

Thinking, Feelings, Strange

Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.260, Booklassic

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The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

Aleister Crowley

Spring, Healthy, Earth

Aleister Crowley (1922). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”

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I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

Aleister Crowley

Daughter, Sunset, Night

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

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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Aleister Crowley

Religious, Doors, People

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Aleister Crowley

Mind, Certain, Limitation

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

Aleister Crowley

Stars, Lying, Pyramids

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May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Aleister Crowley

New Year, Courage, Fall

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

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For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Aleister Crowley

Unions, Sake, Chance

Aleister Crowley, Stephen Skinner (1996). “Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley: Tunisia 1923”, p.64, Weiser Books

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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

Aleister Crowley

War, Hair, Sun

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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aleister Crowley

People, Survival, Victory

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 4, 1969.

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All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

Aleister Crowley

Humanity, Mind, Looks

Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.2, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

Aleister Crowley

Pride, Men, Abuse

Aleister Crowley (1994). “Absinthe: The Green Goddess”, Holmes Publishing Group

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Aleister Crowley

God, Taken, Eye

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

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In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

Aleister Crowley

Book, Reality, May

"Book VI: Liber O". Book by Aleister Crowley, hermetic.com. 1909.

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Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Aleister Crowley

Selfish, Love Is, Ideas

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

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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

Passion, Patriotic, Storm

"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

Aleister Crowley

Passion, Evil, Unity

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Born: October 12, 1875
Died: December 1, 1947
Occupation: Poet
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