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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.

— Aleister Crowley The Book of Lies (1913)

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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.

Liber XV: The Gnostic Mass (1913)

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.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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