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
believe men artist
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
art magic world
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.
art
Magick is the Art of Life itself.
art opportunity practice
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
art causing-change esoteric
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
art understanding action
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
arms corpse danced drank found night slept
I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.
dog fall pits
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
sex names perception
When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.
children white perfect
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
angel uniting unions
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
liberty individual function
The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
writing law appeals
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
tears cry written
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.