We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
Aleister CrowleyBlack magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results โ of an extremely temporary nature.
Aleister CrowleyMy observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.
Aleister CrowleyThe greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.
Aleister Crowley