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I am alone. There is no God where I am. (Aleister Crowley)
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. View quote
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The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. View quote
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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? View quote
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For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. View quote
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I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. View quote
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs. View quote
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How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes. View quote
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse physical or mental stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be one with it; or fulfill it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy. (Aleister Crowley)
I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. View quote
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Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. View quote
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. View quote
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I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come. View quote
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Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine. View quote
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The definition of self-respect contains a clause to include pitiless contempt for some other class. ... English society is impregnated from top to bottom with this spirit. The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. View quote
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When I was Levi, I drew myself as Ayin or Baphomet, 'The Devil' with Beast's Head. This is the Beast throned, crowned, exalted; the leaper, the erect, the butter-in. Her womb is my city, Babel. This Ayin is then my phallic will, my Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwaz, who was afterwards called Satan. View quote
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She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves. View quote
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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. View quote
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Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. (Aleister Crowley)
The key of joy is disobedience. View quote
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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. View quote
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What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. View quote
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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. View quote
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