Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

— Aleister Crowley

This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

— Aleister Crowley

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

— Aleister Crowley

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

— Aleister Crowley

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

— Aleister Crowley

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth…

— Aleister Crowley

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

— Aleister Crowley

“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular,…

— Aleister Crowley

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to…

— Aleister Crowley

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

— Aleister Crowley

“It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which…

— Aleister Crowley

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith…

— Aleister Crowley

“The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly…

— Aleister Crowley

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look…

— Aleister Crowley

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered —…

— Aleister Crowley

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge…

— Aleister Crowley

“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in…

— Aleister Crowley

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the…

— Aleister Crowley

“All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The…

— Aleister Crowley

I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the…

— Aleister Crowley

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…

— Aleister Crowley

“I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was…

— Aleister Crowley

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage…

— Aleister Crowley

“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”

— Aleister Crowley

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

— Aleister Crowley

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Aleister Crowley

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

— Aleister Crowley

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

— Aleister Crowley

The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

— Aleister Crowley

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

— Aleister Crowley

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

— Aleister Crowley

“64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”

— Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

— Aleister Crowley

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

— Aleister Crowley