“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest -… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
