Aleister Crowley Zitate

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„Denn reiner Wille, ohne Sinn und Zweck, befreit von der Lust am Ergebnis, ist in jeder Hinsicht perfekt.“

„Ich bin ein Poet, und ich bevorzuge meine Lügen so, wie meine Mutter sie eins machte.“

„Tue was du willst soll sein das ganze Gesetz.“

„Jedem Dinge, was es auch sei, wohnt seine besondere, ihm eigentümliche Vollendung inne, und die Vernachlässigung der vollen Auswirkung und Funktion irgend eines Teiles bringt Verzerrung und Degeneration für das Ganze. Wirke daher auf alle Weise, aber verwandle die Wirkung aller dieser Wege in den einen Weg des Willens.“

„Jeder Mann und jede Frau ist ein Stern.“

„Eine Unze deiner Praxis wiegt eine Tonne meines Lehrens auf.“

„Ich bin verblüfft.“

“The key of joy is disobedience.”

“I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”

“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.”

“Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.”

“Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.”

“Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.”

“How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.”

“…Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!”

“Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast.”

“The apparent discrepancy in the Gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my falling away from grace was not occasioned by any intellectual qualms; I accepted the theology of the Plymouth Brethren. In fact, I could hardly conceive of the existence of people who might doubt it. I simply went over to Satan's side; and to this hour I cannot tell why.”

“Yea! as I loath, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, perversely prurient - Wilt thou not make this night the nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lord and mine at Our Black Mass?”

“The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed.”

“I am alone. There is no God where I am.”

“Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!”

“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”

“Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord!”

“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?”

“The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.”

“These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.”

“His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplies by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself bound by some mysterious power.”

“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.”

“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

“I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.”

“The definition of self-respect contains a clause to include pitiless contempt for some other class. … English society is impregnated from top to bottom with this spirit. The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

“May Because be accursed for ever!”

“I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!”

“When I was Levi, I drew myself as Ayin or Baphomet, 'The Devil' with Beast's Head. This is the Beast throned, crowned, exalted; the leaper, the erect, the butter-in. Her womb is my city, Babel. This Ayin is then my phallic will, my Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwaz, who was afterwards called Satan.”

“Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.”

“The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.”