Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley Quotes
109 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes.
And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
Aleister Crowley
Source
Report...
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
Aleister Crowley
1
2
3
4
5
Quote of the day
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
Aleister Crowley
Wikipedia
Born:
October 12, 1875
Died:
December 1, 1947
(aged 72)
Bio:
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.
Known for:
Magick
The Book of the Law (1904)
The Book of Lies (1912)
The Book of Thoth (1944)
Most used words:
love
magick
life
god
law
name
truth
sense
man
people
understand
book
science
body
oneself
Aleister Crowley on Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley works on Gutenberg Project
Aleister Crowley works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Aleister Crowley Quotes
Aleister Crowley Short Quotes
Quotes about Aleister Crowley
British Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
19th-century Poet Quotes
Related People
Eliphas Levi
French Philosopher
L. Ron Hubbard
American Philosopher
Anton LaVey
American Author
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes