The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
Aleister CrowleyThe sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Aleister CrowleyThe first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
Aleister CrowleyIf you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.
Aleister Crowley