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Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law

Rare once-published work featuring content currently unavailable in other copies of Crowley's commentary. red-letter edition of the Book of the Law. Also features the Djeridensis Comment, a later commentary by Crowley.

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“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Projection, universal truth

“Knowledge is really confined to experience. The laws of Nature are, as Kant said, the laws of our minds, and, as Huxley said, the generalization of observed facts.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge, Experience, Natural Law, Immanuel Kant, Huxley

“It is, therefore, no argument against ceremonial magic to say that it is ‘absurd’ to try to raise a thunderstorm by beating a drum; it is not even fair to say that you have tried the experiment, found it would not work, and so perceived it to be ‘impossible.’ You might as well claim that, as you had…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Rembrandt, Superstition, Absurd

“If you cut off a man's head, he dies. Why? Because it kills him. That is really the whole answer.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Decapitation, Painfully Obvious, Death

“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word ‘reason’ already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: irrational, Connection, Hume, cause and effect, unthinkable

“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Mastery, Misbehaving, Transcendence, Rules