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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

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
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Writer
Leamington
Warwickshire
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Merely
Christ
Hate
People

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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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For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
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Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
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There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
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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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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
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We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
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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 Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
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There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
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It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
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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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All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.
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