3 Aleister Crowley Quotes on Identity

Aleister Crowley quotes on identity

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

23. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

30. In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence. I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. 'Theosophy', 'Spiritualism', 'Occultism', 'Mysticism', all involved undesirable connotations. I chose therefore the name. 'MAGICK' as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the available terms. I swore to rehabilitate MAGICK, to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word.