Aleister Crowley Quotes

The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We ca...

The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lor...

Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there ...

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Sphe...

The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying "evil." The essence of su...

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled me...

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away ...

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they ...

First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree...

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to...

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long o...

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Ve...

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off ever...

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if yo...

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if ...

Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and ...

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depa...

Thou hast no right but to do thy will... For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lu...

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring...

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worth...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of ...

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bi...

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal an...

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the...

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the...

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-chang...

Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrop...

I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flig...

So sweet is this song that no one could resist it. For in it is all the passionate ache for the moon...

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find ...

Now there is naught but a vast black triangle having the apex downwards, and in the centre of the bl...

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or...

Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an...

Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, ...

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and be...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduc...

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of...

Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own...

O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocki...

... it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I...

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we hav...

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from p...

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compr...

Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of th...

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won'...

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prest...

She it is, she, that found meIn the morphia honeymoon;With silk and steel she bound meIn her poisono...

The seal of Reason, made impregnable:_ The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid:The seal of Brotherh...

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and...

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous ...

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cl...

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I real...

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nat...

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Myst...

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and lea...

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, i...

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even ...

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the e...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doub...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to bre...

But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and canno...