THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Quotes

“If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.”
― Aleister Crowley, THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING

“Directly a man begins to say "Yes" without the question "Why?" he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.”
― Aleister Crowley, THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING

“Truth is Truth; and the Truth of yesterday is the Truth of to-day, and the Truth of to-day is the Truth of to- morrow. Our quest, then, is to find Truth, and to cut the kernel from the husk, the text from the comment.”
― Aleister Crowley, THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING

“St. John of the Cross, writing of the "intuitions" by which God reaches the soul, says: {147} "They enrich us marvellously. A single one of them may be sufficient to abolish at a stroke certain imperfections of which the soul during its whole life has vainly tried to rid itself, and to leave it adorned with virtues and loaded with supernatural gifts. A single one of the intoxicating consolations may reward it for all the labours undergone in its life --- even were they numberless. Invested with an invincible courage, filled with an impassioned desire to suffer for its God, the soul then is seized with a strange torment --- that of not being allowed to suffer enough."*”
― Aleister Crowley, THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING