Aleister Crowley cytaty

Aleister Crowley, właśc. Edward Alexander Crowley – brytyjski okultysta, mistyk, szachista i alpinista. Autor wielu książek, z czego znaczna większość traktowała, lub choć nawiązywała, do wyznawanych przez Crowleya filozoficzno-mistycznych poglądów. Praktycznie całe swoje życie spędził na poszukiwaniach, nauczaniu i opisywaniu pewnej formy synkretycznego mistycyzmu .

✵ 12. Październik 1875 – 1. Grudzień 1947   •   Natępne imiona Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
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Aleister Crowley: 169   Cytatów 4   Polubienia

Aleister Crowley słynne cytaty

„Bądź silny, o człecze! pożądaj, raduj się wszelkimi rzeczami zmysłu i zachwytu i nie obawiaj się, iż jakiś Bóg za to cię odrzuci.”

II:22
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Wyruszają na magiczną ścieżkę bez dostatecznej refleksji, bez tak nieugiętej determinacji, którą wykrzyczał autor tej książki, kiedy podejmował pierwsze przyrzeczenie: PERDURABO – „Wytrwam do końca!” Zaczynają pięknie krocząc, a później odkrywają, że ich buty pokrywa błoto. Zamiast iść dalej, zawracają na Piccadilly. Takie osoby mogą tylko dziękować, jeśli chłopcy z ulicy będą się z nich naigrawać.”

Magija w teorii i praktyce
Źródło: Rozdział VIII. O równowadze oraz ogólnej i szczególnej metodzie przygotowania wystroju świątyni oraz instrumentów sztuki, s. 80, 'Uwaga:' literówka w tłumaczeniu: jest "Piccadily", powinno być "Piccadilly" http://hermetic.com/93beast.fea.st/files/section1/ABA/Book%204%20Part%20III%20MiTaP.pdf.

„Nie ma prawa poza Czyń wedle swej woli.”

III:60
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

Aleister Crowley Cytaty o miłości

„Miłość jest prawem, miłość podług woli.”

I:57
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Wiek 28 i pół, dobre zdrowie kochający sport na świeżym powietrzu szczególnie wspinaczkę i polowania na grubą zwierzynę. Adept Większy w A∴A∴, ale zmęczony mistyką i rozczarowany magiją. Racjonalista, buddysta, agnostyk o antyklerykalnych i moralnych poglądach, torys i jakobita. Szachista, pierwszorzędny amator, potrafiący rozgrywać trzy partie naraz z zawiązanymi oczyma. Uzależniony od czytania i pisania. (…)
Moralność: seksualnie silny i namiętny. Męski w kontaktach z kobietami, wolny od jakichkolwiek podobnych impulsów względem tej samej płci. Pasja do kobiet bezinteresowna, główna motywacja: sprawiać rozkosz. Stąd wielkie pragnienie zrozumienia kobiecej natury, utożsamianie się z ich uczuciami i stosowanie wszelkich środków. Obdarzony wyobraźnią, subtelny nienasycony: cała sprawa to zaledwie próba zaspokojenia pragnienia duszy. To pragnienie największej uwagi, nigdy niezakłócone przez jakiekolwiek inne względy.
Wstrzemięźliwość w alkoholu. Nigdy nie byłem pijany. Jedynym alkoholem, który piję, jest lekkie wino.
Ogólna moralność: arystokrata.
Poczucie sprawiedliwości tak czułe, zrównoważone i nieodparte, że niemal stające się obsesją.
Chojny, dopóki nie pojawia się podejrzenie, iż ktoś próbuje mnie okraść. Liczący każdy grosz, lecz z łatwością wydający fortunę. Rozrzutnik, lekkomyślny, lecz nieuprawiający hazardu, gdyż zawsze ceniłem sobie zwycięstwo w grach wymagających umiejętności, schlebiających mej próżności.
Miły, delikatny, czuły, egoistyczny, zarozumiały, nierozważny, uczący się na błędach.
Niepotrafiący żywić urazy nawet po doświadczeniu największej zniewagi i krzywdy. Lubiący zadawać ból dla własnej przyjemności. Z łatwością atakujący obcą osobę, a następnie pastwiący się nad nią latami, nie odczuwając do niej żadnej animozji. Lubiący dzieci zwierzęta, które niemal zawsze odwzajemniają miłość. Uznający aborcję za haniebne morderstwo, odczuwający silny wstręt do społecznej postawy, która do niej zachęca.
Nienawidzący i pogardzający matką, jak i jej rodziną. Kochający i darzący szacunkiem ojca i jego krewnych.”

Crowley o sobie w okresie spisywania Księgi Prawa.
Ekwinokcjum bogów
Źródło: s. 144–145

Aleister Crowley cytaty

„Słowem Prawa jest Θελημα.”

I:39
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Czyń wedle swej woli będzie całym Prawem.”

I:40
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Takoż i ty cały; nie masz żadnego prawa poza czynieniem swej woli. Czyń tak, a nikt nie powie nie. Albowiem czysta wola, nieukojona celem, wolna od żądzy wyniku, jest na każdy sposób doskonała.”

I:42-44
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Muszę osiągnąć samadhi w interesie Boga.”

Ekwinokcjum bogów
Źródło: s. 115

„Nie tylko okultyści, ale wszyscy wiedzą, że ludzie pytają o radę tylko po to, żeby dowiedzieć się, jacy są mądrzy.”

Magija w teorii i praktyce
Źródło: Rozdział XVIII. O jasnowidzeniu i ciele światła, jego mocy i rozwijaniu się a także o wróżeniu, s. 166

„Jesteście przeciwko ludziom. O moi wybrańcy!”

II:25
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Jestem zakłopotany.”

ostatnie słowa, 1 grudnia 1947.
Źródło: Ostatnie słowa przed śmiercią, itvl.pl, 16 kwietnia 2013 http://www.itvl.pl/news/ostatnie-slowa-przed-smiercia

„Kiedy tonie twoje dziecko, to musisz skakać do wody i je ratować, a nie inwokować rusałki.”

Magija w teorii i praktyce
Źródło: Rozdział XXI. O czarnej magii, o głównych typach operacji w sztuce magicznej i o mocach Sfinksa, s. 188

„Każdy mężczyzna i każda kobieta to gwiazda.”

I:3
Księga Prawa (Liber AL vel Legis)
Źródło: ΘΕΛΗΜΑ: Święte księgi thelemy, rozdział Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, tłum. Krzysztof Azarewicz, wyd. Gdynia – Londyn: Lashtal Press, 2009, s. 137-157

„Magyia jest nauką i sztuką powodującą zmiany zgodne z Wolą.”

Źródło: Księga 4: część II. Magyia

Aleister Crowley: Cytaty po angielsku

“Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.”

Introduction.
Źródło: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take "magical weapons", pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" — these sentences — in the "magical language" ie, that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth "spirits", such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.)
In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar.

“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 48.
Kontekst: Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say "No." I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. One may be wholeheartedly eager to do something which is as easy as falling off a log; and yet it is impossible.

“But exceed! exceed!”

Aleister Crowley książka The Book of the Law

II:70-71.
The Book of the Law (1904)

“The essence of
MAGICK
is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government.”

Introduction.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: The essence of
MAGICK
is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is tangled, and the practice beset with briars.
In the same way
MAGICK
is merely to be and to do. I should add: "to suffer". For Magick is the verb; and it is part of the Training to use the passive voice. This is, however, a matter of Initiation rather than of Magick in its ordinary sense. It is not my fault if being is baffling, and doing desperate!

“Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

“Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

“Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.”

Article "The Worst Man in the World" in The Sunday Dispatch (2 July 1933); quoted in The Magical Revival (1972) by Kenneth Grant.
Kontekst: Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.
It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!
To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.
I have been accused of being a "black magician." No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

“No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Kontekst: 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.

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

Aleister Crowley książka The Book of the Law

I:40 This famous statement derives from several historic precedents, including that of François Rabelais in describing the rule of his Abbey of Thélème in Gargantua and Pantagruel: Fait ce que vouldras (Do what thou wilt), which was later used by the Hellfire Club established by Sir Francis Dashwood. It is also similar to the Wiccan proverb: An ye harm none, do what thou wilt; but the oldest known statement of a similar assertion is that of St. Augustine of Hippo: Love, and do what thou wilt.
Źródło: The Book of the Law (1904)

“Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.”

Aleister Crowley książka Diary of a Drug Fiend

Źródło: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

Aleister Crowley książka Diary of a Drug Fiend

Źródło: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”

Aleister Crowley książka Diary of a Drug Fiend

Źródło: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 7.
Kontekst: My mother was naturally a rather sensual type of woman and there is not doubt that sexual repression had driven her as nearly as possible to the borders of insanity.
My cousin Agnes had a house in Dorset Square. My mother took me to tea there one afternoon. A copy of Dr. Pascal was in the room. The word "Zola" caught my mother's eye and she made a verbal assault of hysterical fury upon her hostess. Both women shouted and screamed at each other simultaneously, amid floods of tears. Needless to say, my mother had never read a line of Zola — the name was simply a red rag to a cow.
This inconsistency, by the way, seems universal. I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles. The censor habitually passes what I, who am no puritan, consider nauseating filth, while refusing to license Oedipus Rex, which we are compelled to assimilate at school. The country is flooded with the nasty pornography of women writers, while there is an outcry against epoch-making masterpieces of philosophy like Jurgen. The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list. The fact is, of course, that the puritan has been turned by sexual repression into a sexual pervert and degenerate, so that he is insane on the subject.

“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 4.
Kontekst: Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

“We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, all such ideas: they have not, and never can have, any real meaning.”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, all such ideas: they have not, and never can have, any real meaning. If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as "truth" are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with "We know": yet, questioned, "we" make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less that the whole body of his knowledge, implied in the theory of his definition of himself, and confirmed by every single experience. He could receive impressions only be meeting A, or being caught up by B. Yet he would be wrong in an infinite number of ways. There are therefore Aleph-Zero possibilities that at any moment a man may find himself totally transformed. And it may be that our present dazzled bewilderment is due to our recognition of the existence of a new dimension of thought, which seems so "inscrutably infinite" and "absurd" and "immoral," etc. — because we have not studied it long enough to appreciate that its laws are identical with our own, though extended to new conceptions.

“The skeptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them any objective validity, since, in so many contradictions, something must be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-embracing proves that very validity, since after all something must be true.”

777 (1909)
Kontekst: The following is an attempt to systematize alike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion.
The skeptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them any objective validity, since, in so many contradictions, something must be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-embracing proves that very validity, since after all something must be true.
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

“The Initiate who is aware Who he is can always check is conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings, and his proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as a simple idea.”

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: A parabola is bound by one law which fixes its relations with two straight lines at every point; yet it has no end short of infinity, and it continually changes its direction. The Initiate who is aware Who he is can always check is conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings, and his proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as a simple idea.

“The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list.”

Źródło: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 7.
Kontekst: My mother was naturally a rather sensual type of woman and there is not doubt that sexual repression had driven her as nearly as possible to the borders of insanity.
My cousin Agnes had a house in Dorset Square. My mother took me to tea there one afternoon. A copy of Dr. Pascal was in the room. The word "Zola" caught my mother's eye and she made a verbal assault of hysterical fury upon her hostess. Both women shouted and screamed at each other simultaneously, amid floods of tears. Needless to say, my mother had never read a line of Zola — the name was simply a red rag to a cow.
This inconsistency, by the way, seems universal. I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles. The censor habitually passes what I, who am no puritan, consider nauseating filth, while refusing to license Oedipus Rex, which we are compelled to assimilate at school. The country is flooded with the nasty pornography of women writers, while there is an outcry against epoch-making masterpieces of philosophy like Jurgen. The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list. The fact is, of course, that the puritan has been turned by sexual repression into a sexual pervert and degenerate, so that he is insane on the subject.

“I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.”

" Energized Enthusiasm : A Note On Theurgy http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no9/eqi09005.html" in The Equinox Vol. 1 no. 9 (Spring 1913) http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no9/index.html.
Kontekst: I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. Its rarity may be attributed to the crushing influence of a corrupted society. It is rare to meet a youth without high ideals, generous thoughts, a sense of holiness, of his own importance, which, being interpreted, is, of his own identity with God. Three years in the world, and he is a bank clerk or even a government official. Only those who intuitively understand from early boyhood that they must stand out, and who have the incredible courage and endurance to do so in the face of all that tyranny, callousness, and the scorn of inferiors can do; only these arrive at manhood uncontaminated.

“ALL
may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon
MAGICK
and the right comprehension and right application thereof.”

Introduction.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Kontekst: I must make
MAGICK
the essential factor in the life of
ALL.
In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of
MAGICK
and setting forth its main principles in such a way that
ALL
may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon
MAGICK
and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

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