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I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz.
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
Yea! as I loath, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, perversely prurient - Wilt thou not make this night the nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lord and mine at Our Black Mass?
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast.
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
Mad maidens, tender as blue seas.
The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord!
Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972)
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
I embrace hardship and privation with ecstatic delight; I want everything the world holds; I would go to prison or to the scaffold for the sake of the experience. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
The essence of
MAGICK
is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
I should have destroyed my Will in the act of fulfilling it, or what I mistook for it; for the True Will has no goal; its nature being To Go.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with "We know": yet, questioned, "we" make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
The Book of the Law (1904)
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?
Aceldama: A Place To Bury Strangers In (1898)
This book is for
ALL:
for every man, woman, and child.
Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.
Magick Without Tears (1954)
The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
The Book of the Law (1904)
May Because be accursed for ever!
The Book of the Law (1904)
To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.