Алистер Кроули цитаты
Алистер Кроули
Дата рождения: 12. Октябрь 1875
Дата смерти: 1. Декабрь 1947
Другие имена: Alexander Crowley, Ալիստեր Կրոուլի
А́листер Кро́ули — английский поэт, оккультист, каббалист и таролог. Был известен как чёрный маг и сатанист XIX—XX века, один из «видных идеологов оккультизма и сатанизма». Основатель учения Телемы и автор оккультных произведений, в том числе «Книги закона». Создатель колоды «Таро Тота». Участник нескольких оккультных организаций, включая «Орден Золотой Зари», «Серебряную Звезду» и «Орден Храма Востока». К увлечениям Кроули также относились шахматы, альпинизм и астрология.
Цитаты Алистер Кроули
„Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.“
— Aleister Crowley, книга Diary of a Drug Fiend
Источник: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.“
— Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
Источник: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
„But exceed! exceed!“
— Aleister Crowley, книга The Book of the Law
II:70-71.
The Book of the Law (1904)
„Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.“
— Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice
Introduction.
Источник: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Контексте: 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.
„The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.“
— Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
Источник: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
„We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.“
— Aleister Crowley, книга Diary of a Drug Fiend
Источник: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign?“
— Aleister Crowley, книга The Book of the Law
I:26.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Контексте: Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
„Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler.“
Ch. 48.
Контексте: 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.
„I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.“
— Aleister Crowley, книга Moonchild
Источник: Moonchild
„Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one.“
Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Контексте: Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
„These bigots are so inconsistent that I have never been able to follow the working of their minds“
Ch. 7.
Контексте: 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.
„Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.“
— Aleister Crowley, книга The Book of the Law
I:26.
The Book of the Law (1904)
Контексте: Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
„Yet he would be wrong in an infinite number of ways.“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Контексте: 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.
