“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”
― Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law
― Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law
“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”
― The Book of Thoth
― The Book of Thoth
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