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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
Artist
Astrologer
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
Chess Player
Mountaineer
Novelist
Organizational Founder
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Leamington
Warwickshire
Morality
Ordinary
People

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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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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?
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The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
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Love is the law, love under will.
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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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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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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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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
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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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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
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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.
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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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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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