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

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Context: 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.

Education

“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

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

Sense , Personality

“The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Love , Spring , Birth

“He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

Source: The Book of the Law

Dogs

“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Mountain , Personality

“Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.”

Aleister Crowley book Magick Without Tears

Source: Magick Without Tears

Hate

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

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

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

Love , Chance

“… in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Art , Error , Science

“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 book Moonchild

Source: Moonchild

Feeling , Thinking

“The key of joy is disobedience.”

Aleister Crowley
Joy

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

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

Source: The Book of the Law (1904)

Daughters , Night

“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.”

Aleister Crowley
Death , World , Imagination , Boy

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

Aleister Crowley

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

God

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

Aleister Crowley
Understanding , Falseness

“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.”

Aleister Crowley

Source: Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions

People , Health

“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.”

Aleister Crowley book Magick Without Tears

Ch LXXIII
Magick Without Tears (1954)

Intelligence

“…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!”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

Love , Wisdom , Art , Drink

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

Aleister Crowley

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