Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition Quotes

“Gardnerian witchcraft, particularly its early forms, clearly draws heavily from Crowley. The symbolic great rite comes from OTO’s VI ° ritual; the pagan catchphrase “Perfect love and perfect trust” is drawn from “The Revival of Magick,” and the Wiccan III ° initiation—the highest in the Craft—is essentially a Gnostic Mass. And, for all its evocative beauty, the Charge of the Goddess is largely a paraphrase of The Book of the Law. Even Gardner himself, in a cagey way, admits the lineage of his witchcraft movement: in his second book, Witchcraft Today,”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

“Guests are requested not to tease the Ghosts. Guests are requested to be as quiet as possible while dying of fright. Breakfast will be served at 9 a.m. to the survivors of the Night. The Hastings Borough Cemetery is five minutes walk away (ten minutes if carrying body), but it is only one minute as the Ghost flies. Guests are requested not to dig graves on lawns, but to make full use of newly filled graves under trees. Guests are requested not to remove corpses from graves or to cut down bodies from trees. The Office has a certain amount of used clothing for sale, the property of guests who have no longer any use for earthly raiment. 40”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

“You should get a divorce. I admit what some dithering nincompoops are still imbecile enough to call “misconduct” on 47 occasions since August 3rd—the fatigue of constant travel must excuse the smallness of the figure—with Hanni Jaeger of Berlin. It will be no good asking for alimony because we are all in the soup together with the Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook and the British Empire. Best of all to you! 24”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

“Freud is completely obsessed with the nonsense about infantile sexual theories. There may possibly be children in Germany or Austria sufficiently morbid, but nothing of the sort ever crossed my own mind when I was a child—nor have I ever met a child so morbid.”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

“I want you to regard Mandrake Press Ltd. solely as your publishers, and not to prejudice the purely commercial side of that purely publishing concern with any of your fits and starts, Thelemite politics, earthquakes, and the other distracting phenomena of art and nature, such as pin pricks, dogmatism, human chess, brawls, faux pas, bravado and braggadocio, pure bluff, brainwaves, and dementia precox, which tend to accompany your too personal intrusion into the world of practical affairs. 13”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

“A happy homeowner, Crowley plunged more than ever into the trappings of his Scottish surroundings. He took long walks over the moors, hunted red deer and grouse, and called himself Laird Boleskine. On the edges of his land, he hung signs reading “Beware of the Ichthyosaurus!” and “The Dinotheriums are out today!”
― Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley