Thelema Quotes

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Love is the law, love under will.

I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.

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

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

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Every man and every woman is a star.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

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

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

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

The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.