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Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
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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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The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.
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I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
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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.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.
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Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.
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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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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.
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