"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad." —
aleister crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)
"Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness." — Aleister Crowley
"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without." — Aleister Crowley
"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)
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." —
aleister crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices." — Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)
"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will." — Aleister Crowley (Magick in Theory and Practice)
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"Your kiss is bitter with cocaine." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them." — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)
"I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them..." — Aleister Crowley (The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz)
"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)
"Every man and every woman is a star." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)
"What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life...." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." — Aleister Crowley
"It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth." — Aleister Crowley (Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law)
"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations" — Aleister Crowley (The Book of Lies)
"I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff." — Aleister Crowley
"Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee." — Aleister Crowley (The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers: The Collected Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1909-1914 E.V.)
"The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them." — Aleister Crowley (Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law)
"Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!" — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)
"The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Love is the law, love under will." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)
"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!" — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment." — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)
"The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!" — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it." — Aleister Crowley (Magick Without Tears)
"...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)
"This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)
"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)
"Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?' — Aleister Crowley
Books in PDF format to read:
Aleister Crowley - Ambergris A Selection From The Poems Of Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley - The Works Of Aleister Crowley Vol Iii Part 3Aleister Crowley - The Works Of Aleister Crowley Vol Ii Part 3Aleister Crowley - The Works Of Aleister Crowley Vol I Part 3Thomas Voxfire - What Was Aleister Crowley
After his father died the young Aleister rebelled, and began to see through what he considered to be the hypocrisy of society and it's Christian morals. His mother called him "the little beast" and well-versed as he was in the Bible, he took it to mean the Beast of the Revelations - represented by the numerals 666 - and gleefully adopted his new title as a defiant joke.
