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I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
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It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
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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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The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
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A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
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The key of joy is disobedience.
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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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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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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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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
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As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
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What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.
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Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.
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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
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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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Sex is the sacred song of the soul Sex is the sanctuary of Self.
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The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
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