The Way of Mastery is to break all the rulesโbut you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
Aleister CrowleyAll questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
Aleister CrowleyThere are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
Aleister CrowleyTo me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?
Aleister Crowley