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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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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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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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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.
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed but all is trulier understood with every step.
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There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
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Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
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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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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
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