97 quotes
ALL
may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon
MAGICK
and the right comprehension and right application thereof.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
I with Alostrael alone - we shall do Magick unto our Lord the Devil such as the Earth hath never known.
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
There is no part of me that is not of the gods!
Liber XV: The Gnostic Mass (1913)
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
The Book of the Law (1904)
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
I must make
MAGICK
the essential factor in the life of
ALL.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
As long as sexual relations are complicated by religious, social and financial considerations, so long will they cause all kinds of cowardly, dishonourable and disgusting behaviour.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
And know that all my joy, perfect, transcending sense, is given of Aiwaz, whom we call the Devil, whose name is Will, loud-uttered by cocaine, is Love.
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
The Book of the Law (1904)
I had taken the name Baphomet as my motto in the O.T.O. For six years and more I had tried to discover the proper way to spell this name.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
The Book of Lies (1913)