Frasi di Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Data di nascita: 12. Ottobre 1875
Data di morte: 1. Dicembre 1947
Altri nomi: Ալիստեր Կրոուլի, Alexander Crowley
Aleister Crowley, il cui vero nome era Edward Alexander Crowley , è stato un esoterista, artista, scrittore e alpinista britannico.
Figura assai controversa, è considerato il fondatore del moderno occultismo e fonte di ispirazione per il satanismo.
Uomo di vasta cultura, è considerato una figura chiave nella storia dei nuovi movimenti magici. A Crowley è attribuito il maggior tentativo di creare una «religione magica» per l'epoca contemporanea e la sua influenza sul coevo ambiente magico è stata fondamentale.
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Frasi Aleister Crowley
„Io sono sopra di te e in te. La mia estasi è nella tua. La mia gioia è veder la tua gioia.“
— Aleister Crowley, libro The Book of the Law
I: 13
I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.
The Book of the Law
„Ogni uomo e ogni donna è una stella.“
— Aleister Crowley, libro The Book of the Law
I: 3
Every man and every woman is a star.
The Book of the Law
„L'amore è la legge, l'amore sotto il volere.“
— Aleister Crowley, libro The Book of the Law
I: 57
Love is the law, love under will.
The Book of the Law
„Questi sono idioti che gli uomini adorano; entrambi i loro dèi e i loro uomini sono idioti.“
— Aleister Crowley, libro The Book of the Law
I: 11
These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.
The Book of the Law
„Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.“
Introduction.
Origine: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contesto: 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.
„I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.“
— Aleister Crowley, libro Moonchild
Origine: Moonchild
— Aleister Crowley, libro Diary of a Drug Fiend
Origine: Diary of a Drug Fiend
Origine: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
— Aleister Crowley, libro Diary of a Drug Fiend
Origine: Diary of a Drug Fiend
„Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contesto: Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
„Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes“
Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Contesto: Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
„Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler.“
Origine: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 48.
Contesto: 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.
