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Quotes from Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice — Aleister Crowley

1875–1947 England

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

Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

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The Magician must be wary in his use of his powers; he must make every act not only accord with his Will, but with the properties of his position at the time.

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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one.

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The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness.

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The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

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The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas.

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Yet he would be wrong in an infinite number of ways.

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We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, all such ideas: they have not, and never can have, any real meaning.

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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.

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Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

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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.

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We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

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I must make
MAGICK
the essential factor in the life of
ALL.

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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.

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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.

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The essence of
MAGICK
is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government.

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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.

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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.

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This book is for
ALL:
for every man, woman, and child.

Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aleister Crowley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.