Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are. Aleister Crowley More Quotes by Aleister Crowley More Quotes From Aleister Crowley I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come. Aleister Crowley cry written tears The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science. Aleister Crowley artist men believe 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 storm patriotic passion 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 journey character country 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 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 eye taken god Sanity is a compromise. Aleister Crowley sanity compromise I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Aleister Crowley mother lying way He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason. Aleister Crowley pits dog fall Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. Aleister Crowley chinese principles animal The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley thelema mankind mistake Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. Aleister Crowley cocaine bitter kissing The word of Sin is Restriction Aleister Crowley restriction sin Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. Aleister Crowley piety asia stupid This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. Aleister Crowley rambling taken complaining 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. Aleister Crowley waste language views 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 nails skulls suicide 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 cities heart country 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 law men ideas Love is the law, love under will. Aleister Crowley intriguing law love-is
