Top 100 Quotes About Aleister

#1. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

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#2. Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

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#3. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

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

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#7. Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

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#8. Man has the right ... to play as he will ... to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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.

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#12. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

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

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#14. The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

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#15. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.

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#16. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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#17. Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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#18. Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

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#19. To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

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

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#21. 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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#22. 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.

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

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

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#25. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

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#26. 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!

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#27. The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.

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

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ...

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#32. Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

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#33. Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

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#37. Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

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#38. The word of Sin is Restriction

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

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#40. Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

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#41. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

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#42. I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

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#43. The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.

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#44. She it is, she, that found me
In the morphia honeymoon;
With silk and steel she bound me
In her poisonous milk she drowned me,
Even now her arms surround me

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#45. Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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!

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#48. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

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#49. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

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#50. Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

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#51. There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

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#52. 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

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#53. Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

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

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#55. VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.

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

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#57. 40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

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

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#59. The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.

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#60. During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish ... Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it. - From a ritual of Aleister Crowley

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#61. It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

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#62. Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

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

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#64. 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.

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#65. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

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#66. It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

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#67. Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily.

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#68. Love is the law, love under will.

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#69. Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

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

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#71. 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.

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#72. This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer

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#73. He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth aether to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day.

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#74. Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

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#75. Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

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#76. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

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#77. I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

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#78. There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

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

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#80. And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

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#81. What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

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#82. The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense.
- Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry.

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#83. Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

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#84. 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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#85. You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

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#86. Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

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#87. The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble.
Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures.

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#88. All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

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#89. This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

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#90. One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

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

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#92. I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?

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#93. We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

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

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#95. The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of
the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female
with the male, of the ego with the non-ego - or what not.

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

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#97. The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.

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#98. I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

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#99. 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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#100. O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower.

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