“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
“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
“Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.”
― The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers
― The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers
“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”
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“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
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