Aleister Crowley quotes - page 4

But exceed! exceed! (Aleister Crowley)
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. View quote
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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. View quote
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I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. View quote
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It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment. View quote
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Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. View quote
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...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! View quote
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Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast. View quote
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Yea! as I loath, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, perversely prurient - Wilt thou not make this night the nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lord and mine at Our Black Mass? View quote
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The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. View quote
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Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! (Aleister Crowley)
The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end. View quote
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Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord! View quote
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Now this word SABAF, being by number Three score and Ten, is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST. View quote
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His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplies by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself bound by some mysterious power. View quote
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I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy. View quote
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May Because be accursed for ever! View quote
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I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him! View quote
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Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost. View quote
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And know that all my joy, perfect, transcending sense, is given of Aiwaz, whom we call the Devil, whose name is Will, loud-uttered by cocaine, is Love. View quote
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I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz. (Aleister Crowley)
Now a curse upon Because and his kin! View quote
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Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun! Thou, the Saviour! Silence! Give me Thy Secret! Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Thou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, Most High! View quote
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The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. View quote
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My light! O my father the Devil! It hath made all things one, being perfect, even as doth the Darkness! View quote
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