Aleister Crowley

Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

I am alone. There is no God where I am.

The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!

Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.

Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign?

I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.

These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. This verse establishes uncompromisingly that all Gods — G capital, that is to say, 'true Gods' — and all men deified by legend or deceit — that is to say, false gods' — …

Every man and every woman is a star.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific, or a sham and a swindle.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?