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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Leamington
Warwickshire
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Best
Writing
Shakespeare
Testament
English

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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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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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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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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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I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul
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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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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
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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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We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
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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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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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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
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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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I am alone. There is no God where I am.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
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