Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowleywas an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion and philosophy of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth12 October 1875
lying hate failing
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
song sex self
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.
believe practice people
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. 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.
lying self way
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
wise men giving
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.
conquer prestige death-and-dying
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
stars men intriguing
Every man and every woman is a star.
men inertia universe
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
men mind mark
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
symphony silence thelema
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
life mistake mean
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
pay statistics customers
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
intolerance evidence fetish
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
children fire dread
A burnt child dreads the fire.