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The Initiate who is aware Who he is can always check is conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings, and his proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as a simple idea. (Aleister Crowley)
The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list. View quote
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ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof. View quote
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The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. View quote
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Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with "We know": yet, questioned, "we" make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. View quote
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As long as sexual relations are complicated by religious, social and financial considerations, so long will they cause all kinds of cowardly, dishonourable and disgusting behaviour. View quote
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I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it. View quote
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I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. View quote
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The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy. View quote
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The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. View quote
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I chose therefore the name. "MAGICK" as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the available terms. I swore to rehabilitate MAGICK, to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word. (Aleister Crowley)
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. View quote
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Yet he would be wrong in an infinite number of ways. View quote
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Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. View quote
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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. View quote
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Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them... View quote
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Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes. View quote
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Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done. View quote
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No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective. View quote
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Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? View quote
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. (Aleister Crowley)
I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles. View quote
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These bigots are so inconsistent that I have never been able to follow the working of their minds. View quote
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. View quote
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Men and women will never behave worthily as long as current morality interferes with the legitimate satisfaction of physiological needs. Nature always avenges herself on those who insult her. View quote
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