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Aleister Crowley byl britský mág, okultista, spisovatel, básník, filozof, jogín, špion, šachista, finanční poradce, dráteník, plynař, alchymista, astrolog, malíř, lyžař, hedonista, drogový experimentátor, uhlíř, cestovatel, pansexuál, sociální kritik a horolezec. Vytvořil filosofický systém Thelema a stal se jeho největším teoretikem. Systém Thelémy vychází z Crowleyovy knihy The Book of the Law , sepsané v roce 1904. Také je citován jako klíčová inspirace pro množství pozdějších esoterických skupin a osobností, včetně lidí jako je Kenneth Grant, Gerald Gardner a do určité míry také Austin Osman Spare.

Senzacechtivé plátky té doby o něm psaly jako o „nejprohnanějším muži, který kdy žil“. Vysloužil si také přezdívku „nejhříšnější muž světa“. Měl neustále problémy s obviňováním ze strany veřejnosti a úřadů kvůli své „morálce“. Několikrát kvůli tomu stanul i před soudem. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. říjen 1875 – 1. prosinec 1947   •   Další jména Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
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“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!”

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Aleister Crowley kniha Moonchild

Zdroj: Moonchild

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

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Aleister Crowley kniha The Book of the Law

Zdroj: The Book of the Law (1904)

“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.”

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

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Zdroj: The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers

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

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“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.”

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Zdroj: Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions

“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.”

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Aleister Crowley kniha Magick Without Tears

Ch LXXIII
Magick Without Tears (1954)

“…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!”

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Aleister Crowley kniha The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

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

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Zdroj: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 242

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.

“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?”

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Zdroj: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 296

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

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Aleister Crowley kniha The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

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

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II:23.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“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!”

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The Book of the Law (1904)

“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”

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I:63-66.
The Book of the Law (1904)

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

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Zdroj: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 239

“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?”

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Aceldama : A Place To Bury Strangers In (1898) Preface.

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

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Aleister Crowley kniha Magick Without Tears

Ch XXI.
Magick Without Tears (1954)

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

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I:11.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“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.”

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Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

“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.”

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III Of the Ceremony of the Introit, including what is called the "Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church" http://www.hermetic.com/egc/creed.html.
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)

“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”

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Zdroj: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 69.

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

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I:13.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“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.”

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Ch, 3.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

“May Because be accursed for ever!”

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II:28-29.
The Book of the Law (1904)

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

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Zdroj: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 140

“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.”

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Zdroj: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 198

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

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This has been attributed to Crowley on the internet, but without citation. No incidents of it in Crowley's works have as yet been located.
This was quoted as an "occult tradition" in Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology (1976) by Charles Lawrence Sheridan, p. 17, but without any reference to Crowley.
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“The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.”

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Zdroj: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.