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The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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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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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
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It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
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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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Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle
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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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The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.
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This formula of Love is universal all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.
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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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Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
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The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
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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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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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Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
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Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.
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Every intentional act is a magical act.
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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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30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
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