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
prayer invoke thyself
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
evil vagueness doe
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
men ideas worry
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
history people made
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
spring healthy earth
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
inspirational life thinking
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
willpower talent virtue
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
believe satan chiefs
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
air water overcoming
The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.
mother stars father
I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.
hallucinations lord abyss
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
running alcohol risk
There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!
mistake mankind thelema
The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.