Meandering on the path . . .

Today is the birthday of Edward Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875 – December 1, 1947), occultist, mystic, poet, and social provocateur. He is best known as Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast and for his development of the philosophical system called Thelema.

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
- Aleister Crowley

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
- Aleister Crowley

"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
- Aleister Crowley

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

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
- Aleister Crowley

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