Magick in Theory and Practice Quotes

“In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“Any act, if in accordance with the will, is an act of magic.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“The question of Magick is a question of discovering and employing hitherto unknown forces of nature. We know that they exist, and we cannot doubt the possibility of mental or physical instruments capable of bringing us into relation with them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“Man's sense of himself as separate from, and oppose to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. All other magical Rituals are particular cases of this general principle.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice