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
perfect lust way
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
Every intentional act is a magical act.
country character men
When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.
writing men thinking
Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
silly boredom way
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
foolish
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.
son names sun
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
men law ideas
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.
circles firsts tasks
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
emotional magic black
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
mind certain limitation
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
struggle self long
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?
views ego world
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
thelema
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.