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• The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Liberty, Individual, States

  Aleister Crowley (2017). “The Book of Law and The Book of Lies”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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• Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Wine, Fire

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Messages, Should

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• Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Curves, Life And Death

  Aleister Crowley, “Thanatos Basileos”

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• 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.

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• We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

  Aleister Crowley

  Atheism, Pigeons, Method

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hands, Plums, Verbs

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• I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, School, Thinking

  "Energized Enthusiasm: A Note On Theurgy". The Equinox, Volume 1, No. 9, www.the-equinox.org. Spring 1913.

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Autumn, Men

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• When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Character, Journey

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• All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Law, Appeals

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 10.”, Lulu.com

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• 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

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• It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Order, Omnipotence

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• I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

  Aleister Crowley

  Tears, Cry, Written

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.164, Weiser Books

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• Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mean, Journey, Steps

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• 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

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• It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.

  Aleister Crowley

  Spiritual, Children, Heart

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• We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Propositions, Conditions

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

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

  Aleister Crowley

  Silly, Boredom, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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• The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Old Testament, Models

  "Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley". Book by Lawrence Sutin, 2000.

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• The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Water, Overcoming

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• Love is the law, love under will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Law, Intriguing

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.6, Public Lex

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• By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

  Aleister Crowley

  Vendetta, Universe

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• The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Girl, Country, Dream

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