Aleister Crowley

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! ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#occultism #the-occult #universe #life

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#magic #magick #occult #occultism #spiritual

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#made #martyrs #people #really #who

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

#arms #awakening #corpse #danced #doubt

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#bible #go #mad #must #seriously

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

#believe #chief #content #devil #get

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

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

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#arts #branch #comprehension #difficult #errors

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#grown #i #infantile #made #me