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
Aleister Crowley quotes about
absence collection complete talents virtues wholly
In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
intolerance evidence fetish
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
conquer prestige death-and-dying
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
fake-people fear children
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
thee capacity all-things
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
diversity unity form
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
genius alternatives opinion
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
integrity ambition agamemnon
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.
aversion sickness shame
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
who-we-are remember increase
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
hallucinations lord abyss
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
willpower talent virtue
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
unions sake chance
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
savages body clubs
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?