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This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

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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
Atoms
Wild
Eternity
Stars
Universe
Light
Soul
Revel
Men
Mirth

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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
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It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
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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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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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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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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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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
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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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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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Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever only revolution can save it.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
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Alas the Master so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
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A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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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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Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.
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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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Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
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