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From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment
Aleister Crowley (or The Great Beast 666 or To Mega Therion or Swami Salami or Frater Perdurabo or Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji or The Wickedest Man In The World or Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici) was an occultist and magician, a self-proclaimed sex and drug fiend, a poet and writer of great flexibility and skill, the founder of Thelema and a damn fine rock-climber. Many of his works are available online, here and elsewhere. Here are some recommendations:
- Liber ABA. As good an introduction to, and handbook for, real, powerful magick as any ever written.
- The Book of Lies. The title is warning enough. Hilarious stuff.
- On how to become a better person: Eight lectures on yoga (practical mysticism in brilliant and very funny prose), Liber E (a beginners' syllabus of exercizes) and Liber III vel Jugorum (exercizes for control of self).
- Liber II. Crowley's philosophy of True Will, which, despite its name, is an awful lot like ancient conceptions of destiny.
- 'Hymn To Pan' and 'Pan To Artemis' - poems like tornadoes.
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Restriction is the word of sin."
"To obey a set of rules is to shift the whole responsibility of conduct on to some superannuated Bodhisattva."
"I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck."
"The method of science - the aim of religion"
"It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them"
