Frases de Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley, ou Edward Alexander Crowley , foi um membro da Ordem Hermética da Aurora Dourada e influente ocultista britânico, responsável pela fundação da doutrina Thelema. Ele foi o co-fundador da A∴A∴ e mais tarde um líder da O.T.O.. Ele é conhecido hoje em dia por seus escritos sobre magia, especialmente o Livro da Lei, o texto sagrado e central da Thelema, apesar de ter escrito sobre outros assuntos esotéricos como a cabala.

Crowley também era mago, hedonista, e crítico social. Em muita de suas façanhas ele "iria contra os valores morais e religiosos do seu tempo", defendendo a liberdade pessoal e espiritual baseado em sua regra de "Faz o que tu queres". Por causa disso, ele ganhou larga notoriedade em sua vida, e foi declarado pela imprensa do tempo como "O homem mais perverso do mundo." Além de suas atividades esotéricas, ele era também um premiado jogador de xadrez, um alpinista, poeta e dramaturgo. Em 2001, uma enquete da BBC descrevia Crowley como sendo o septuagésimo terceiro maior britânico de todos os tempos, por influenciar e ser referenciado por numerosos escritores, músicos e cineastas, incluindo Jimmy Page, Alan Moore, Bruce Dickinson, Ozzy Osbourne, Raul Seixas, Marilyn Manson e Kenneth Anger. Ele também foi citado como influência principal de muitos grupos esotéricos e de individuais na posterioridade, incluindo figuras como Kenneth Grant e Gerald Gardner.

✵ 12. Outubro 1875 – 1. Dezembro 1947   •   Outros nomes Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
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“I should have destroyed my Will in the act of fulfilling it, or what I mistook for it; for the True Will has no goal; its nature being To Go.”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contexto: The Magician must be wary in his use of his powers; he must make every act not only accord with his Will, but with the properties of his position at the time. It might be my Will to reach the foot of a cliff; but the easiest way — also the speediest, most direct least obstructed, the way of minimum effort — would be simply to jump. I should have destroyed my Will in the act of fulfilling it, or what I mistook for it; for the True Will has no goal; its nature being To Go.

“The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas.”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contexto: The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

“The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament”

First and only letter to his son Aleister Ataturk (May 1947), as quoted in Do What Thou Wilt : A Life of Aleister Crowley (2000) by Lawrence Sutin, p. 416.
Contexto: The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament, especially the book of Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon. … In writing English the most important quality that you can acquire is style. It makes all the difference to anyone who reads what you write, whether you use the best phrases in the best way.

“Every man and every woman is a star.”

Aleister Crowley livro The Book of the Law

I:3.
Fonte: The Book of the Law (1904)

“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”

Aleister Crowley livro Diary of a Drug Fiend

Fonte: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Love is the law, love under will.”

Aleister Crowley livro The Book of the Law

I:57.
Variante: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fonte: The Book of the Law (1904)

“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”

Aleister Crowley livro Diary of a Drug Fiend

Fonte: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life….”

Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”

Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 57.
Contexto: Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. … Knowing nothing and fearing everything, they rant and rave and riot like so many maniacs. The subject does not matter. Any idea which gives them an excuse of getting excited will serve. They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion. It may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman or even a doctor whose views displease the Medial Trust.

“Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations”

Aleister Crowley livro The Book of Lies

Fonte: The Book of Lies

“Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them…”

Fonte: The Scented Garden Of Abdullah The Satirist Of Shiraz

“The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Contexto: To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The natural laziness of the mind tempts one to eschew authors who demand a continuous effort of intelligence. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.

“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.”

Fonte: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.
Contexto: I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. 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.

“I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.”

Aleister Crowley livro The Book of the Law

I:29.
Fonte: The Book of the Law (1904)

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