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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

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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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Leamington
Warwickshire
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Testament
English
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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
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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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There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
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Practically, Science is true and Faith is foolish.
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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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.
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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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Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
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The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
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A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
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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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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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We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
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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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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
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The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
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