Aleister Crowley: Citations en anglais
“I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)
Source: The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers
Source: Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions
“Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast.”
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 242
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.
Source: 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.”
The Book of the Law (1904)
“I am alone. There is no God where I am.”
II:23.
The Book of the Law (1904)
“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
I:63-66.
The Book of the Law (1904)
“Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil Our Lord!”
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 239
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.”
Ch XXI.
Magick Without Tears (1954)
“These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.”
I:11.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
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)
“I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.”
I:13.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Ch, 3.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)
“May Because be accursed for ever!”
II:28-29.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 140
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 198
“Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.”
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.
Disputed
Variante: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.
Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.
