Quote

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Aleister Crowley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Purpose
Perfect
Every
Delivered
Way
Intriguing
Lust
Result
Pure
Results

More quotes by Aleister Crowley

Image
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
Aleister Crowley
Image
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
Aleister Crowley
Image
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul
Aleister Crowley
Image
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
Aleister Crowley
Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
Image
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
Image
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
Aleister Crowley
Image
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.
Aleister Crowley
Image
It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
Aleister Crowley
Image
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
Image
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind or, if not, should never be published at all.
Aleister Crowley
Image
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
Image
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.
Aleister Crowley
Image
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
Aleister Crowley
Image
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.
Aleister Crowley