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Edward Alexander Crowley , dit Aleister Crowley, et également connu comme Maître Therion, Frater Perdurabo ou The Great Beast 666 est un écrivain, poète, occultiste, tarologue et astrologue britannique.

Fils d'une riche famille protestante fondamentaliste, du courant Darbyste, il abjure la foi chrétienne à l'adolescence, après la mort de son père. À Cambridge, il change son prénom d'Edward en Aleister et commence à s'intéresser à l'occultisme. Initié au sein de la Golden Dawn, il s'en détache rapidement pour poursuivre sa propre voie ésotérique, fondée sur une « magie sexuelle » sans tabou. Il dilapide sa fortune au cours de ses recherches qui le mènent partout dans le monde.

Il devient rapidement très controversé, tant pour ses mœurs sexuelles[réf. nécessaire] que pour ses idées occultistes, mais aussi pour ses idées politiques. Germanophile, il devient indésirable en Grande-Bretagne avec la Première Guerre mondiale. Il est chassé de Sicile où il s'était installé, après divers scandales. Il continue ses errances. Il meurt d'une crise cardiaque liée à une bronchite chronique due à sa forte consommation de drogues. Il est incinéré à Brighton et ses cendres ont été perdues.[réf. nécessaire]

Aleister Crowley est surtout connu pour ses écrits sur l'occultisme, particulièrement The Book of the Law, le livre sacré de Thelema. Crowley était également membre influent de plusieurs autres organisations occultes : l'Astrum Argentum et l'Ordo Templi Orientis. Concernant cette dernière organisation, il participa même à la réécriture complète de ses rituels en fonction de la Loi de Thelema.

✵ 12. octobre 1875 – 1. décembre 1947   •   Autres noms Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
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Aleister Crowley: Citations en anglais

“And know that all my joy, perfect, transcending sense, is given of Aiwaz, whom we call the Devil, whose name is Will, loud-uttered by cocaine, is Love.”

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Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 241

“Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.”

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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)

“There is no part of me that is not of the gods!”

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VIII : Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Elements.
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)

“I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz.”

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Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 238

“Now a curse upon Because and his kin!”

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Aleister Crowley livre The Book of the Law

The Book of the Law (1904)

“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”

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Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 49.

“There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.”

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III:74.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun! Thou, the Saviour! Silence! Give me Thy Secret! Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Thou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, Most High!”

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Appendix IV : Liber Samekh.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse physical or mental stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be one with it; or fulfill it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.”

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Moon Child (1917)

“There is little danger that any student, however idle or stupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain. Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight is well begun.
It is desirable that the student should never attach to any result the importance which it at first seems to possess.”

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Book VI : Liber O (1909)

“The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.”

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III:75.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”

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Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 17.

“She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.”

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Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 193

“I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.”

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"Energized Enthusiasm : A Note On Theurgy" in The Equinox Vol. 1 no. 9 (Spring 1913).

“My light! O my father the Devil! It hath made all things one, being perfect, even as doth the Darkness!”

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Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 266

“I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.”

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III Of the Ceremony of the Introit, "Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church".
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)

“I with Alostrael alone - we shall do Magick unto our Lord the Devil such as the Earth hath never known.”

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Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 274

““The Devil” is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ, the solar-phallic-hermetic “Lucifer,” is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and “The Devil” SATAN or HADIT, the Supreme Soul behind RA-HOOR-KHUIT the Sun, the Lord of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade “Know Thyself!” and taught Initiation. He is “the Devil” of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection.”

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Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 21 : Of Pacts with the Devil

“In these days, when devils enter into swine, they do not rush violently down a steep place. They call themselves moral reformers, and vote the Prohibition ticket.”

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Moon Child (1917)

“To me! To me!”

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The Book of the Law (1904)

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.”

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The Comment; this is a summary combination and restatement of the assertions of I:40 and I:57.
The Book of the Law (1904)

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