Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowleywas an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion and philosophy of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth12 October 1875
love-is law intriguing
Love is the law, love under will.
suicide skulls coffins
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
silly boredom way
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.
sacrifice order design
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. 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.
opportunity men fire
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.
perfect lust way
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
stars orbit goes-on
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
propositions conditions
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
names determined equations
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.
kissing bitter cocaine
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.
tears cry written
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
taken rubbish complaining
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
views waste language
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.
oasis europe america
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.