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Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
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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Poet
Writer
Leamington
Warwickshire
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Magic
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Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand some few obtain the truth.
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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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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.
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Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.
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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
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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.
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We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
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