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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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!
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
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.
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
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.
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.