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• Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Heart, Cities

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1969.

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• Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

  Aleister Crowley

  Kissing, Bitter, Cocaine

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.55, Weiser Books

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• There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Enemy, Half

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• I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Lying, Way

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• In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Father, Men

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• The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Organization, Ideas, Light

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

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• The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

  Aleister Crowley

  Suicide, Skulls, Nails

  Aleister Crowley (1917). “Moonchild: A Prologue”, Weiser Books

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• Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stupid, Asia, Piety

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• As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

  Aleister Crowley

  Self Confidence, Men, Numbers

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

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• The word of Sin is Restriction

  Aleister Crowley

  Sin, Restriction

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

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• The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

  Aleister Crowley

  Order, Spelling, Adopted

  Aleister Crowley “Mysticism & Magick”, Lulu.com

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• 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Weakness, Doe, Cry

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• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Love Life, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.360, Weiser Books

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• This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Taken, Complaining, Rambling

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.149, Weiser Books

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Animal, Chinese, Principles

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• The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Determined, Equations

  "Magick Book IV : Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1929.

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• Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

  Aleister Crowley

  Would Be, Done, Calm

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

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

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

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• There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

  Aleister Crowley

  Son, Names, Midnight

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.1, Public Lex

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• A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Pleasure Seeking, San Francisco

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• Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point.
  The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.

  Aleister Crowley

  Sacrifice, Order, Design

  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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