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Moonchild

Promised thirteen birthday gifts by a fortuneteller, Lisa is disappointed when she sees only twelve. but she does not recognize the thirteenth gift. For it is a man - an extraordinary man of amazing powers, irresistibly attractive and sensual. And this ma

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“The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, un…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: City of God, Eldorado, Utopia, Artemis, Priestess

“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem po…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Genius

“Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me—almost as if I were going to think!”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: talking, Thinking

“To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introduced; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Sentence Structurew, Verbs

“In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of ‘the common people,’ who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy i…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Astrology, Napoleon, Louis XVI, Autocracy, equal rights

“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Shame, Love, Lust, Possession, Rejection

“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Toughness

“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfill it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Error, Impulse, Sex Drive, Puritanism, Perversions

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Lies, mother, Irony

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: New Year's Resolution, Virtue, Irony

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Lies, mother, Irony