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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
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Warwickshire
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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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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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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?
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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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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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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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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions I only know that it is irresistible.
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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 place no reliance On virgin or pigeon Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
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The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
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The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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Magick is the Art of Life itself.
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It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
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The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
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I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
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Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
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Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
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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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