Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597) "De Hæresibus" [Of Heresies]
Variants:
Scientia Ipsa Potentia Est.
Scientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.
Scientia potestas est.
Scientia est potentia.
Source: Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 1, sct. 1
“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
Variant: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.
The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss."
Who am I? (Nan Yar) (December 21, 2015)
“The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.”
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
On the Trinity (417)
“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 207
“Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.”
Nan Yar = Who am I?
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 77
Book I, i, 3
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791).
