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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.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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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.
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
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What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.
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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.
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Sanity is a compromise.
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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
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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.
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For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
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Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
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I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
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I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
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