Quote#Wisdom
When I was Levi, I drew myself as Ayin or Baphomet, 'The Devil' with…
Quote byAleister Crowley · 1875–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 198.
English (original)
When I was Levi, I drew myself as Ayin or Baphomet, 'The Devil' with Beast's Head. This is the Beast throned, crowned, exalted; the leaper, the erect, the butter-in. Her womb is my city, Babel. This Ayin is then my phallic will, my Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwaz, who was afterwards called Satan.
— Aleister Crowley
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