Aleister Crowley in India Quotes

“As Blake observed: “The eagle never wasted so much time as being taught by the sparrow how to fly.”
― Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult

“He had lost interest in life, a future, or of returning to England; quite old, he had become part of the jungle, just about clinging to threadbare tassels of civilized formalities, but otherwise, dank and lost amid the rotting undergrowth of the East. Crowley recognized the symptoms in those who entered such a life”
― Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult

“The nineteenth century was altogether a period of reformation throughout the Theravāda world.”3”
― Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult

“Crowley believed the spiritual keys to that future required recovering the workable essence of past knowledge, and reintegrating it with science.”
― Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult