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 More Quotes by Aleister Crowley More Quotes From Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. Aleister Crowley magic wisdom science Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth. Aleister Crowley magic world art 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 overcoming air water 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. Aleister Crowley aversion sickness failing The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept. Aleister Crowley angel soul spiritual Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. Aleister Crowley thee capacity all-things In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley willpower talent virtue Magick is the Art of Life itself. Aleister Crowley art A burnt child dreads the fire. Aleister Crowley dread fire children 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. Aleister Crowley errors opportunity art Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity. Aleister Crowley unity diversity form The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will. Aleister Crowley individual liberty states Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) Aleister Crowley stars pyramids lying To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley discipline reading mind Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis! Aleister Crowley isis eye mouths 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 abuse pride men When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God. Aleister Crowley perception names sex 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 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 men father We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. Aleister Crowley pigeons method atheism
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