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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.

— Aleister Crowley

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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)

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.

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As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.

Magick Without Tears (1954)

The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.

No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.

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