Sanity is a compromise. Aleister Crowley More Quotes by Aleister Crowley More Quotes From Aleister Crowley The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. Aleister Crowley adopted spelling order I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. Aleister Crowley infantile belief made I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. 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. Aleister Crowley regret mean father The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. Aleister Crowley models old-testament writing Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! Aleister Crowley yoga two thinking Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. Aleister Crowley destiny determination ideas I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul Aleister Crowley phenomenon particular soul To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley should messages book 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! Aleister Crowley new-year courage fall 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. Aleister Crowley imagine missing listening Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. Aleister Crowley philosophical love sex 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 dream country 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. Aleister Crowley stars simple book A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. Aleister Crowley ego views world 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? Aleister Crowley struggle self long I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA . Aleister Crowley light-life love-life believe 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 equations determined names To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression. Aleister Crowley sin religious dirty 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 holy-grail quests names In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. Aleister Crowley may book reality
