About the Author:
Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other fields, including mountaineering, chess and poetry. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century.
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"Magick deals with the infinitely small point between sleep and wakefulness, dream and reality, the conscious and the unconscious mind. It dwells in a realm of transitional states amplified to a visible scale. The writer on or from Magick describes, as best he can, a conceptual specter, an intangible fission, a linguistic contradiction. Yet this same moment made crystalline is capable of generating an evolutionary map of comprehension and behavior modification quite omnipotent in its implications. For those who approach Crowley with a sincere but scant background of knowledge, this book will display lucidly and neutrally the immense accuracy and clarity of his writings. It is the most helpful and fluent way in to a massive storehouse of wit and wisdom of any commentary currently available. For those already sated in Crowley's writings, it gives a thoroughly clear, concise formula for understanding without need of any act of faith or fervor. Even the most convoluted and esoteric doctrines, no matter how obscure, are laid out for ease of confident and practical reentry into a system seemingly riddled with impregnable codes. The result is a flowering of visible skill and wisdom that demands, as all such collections must, a positive and real measurement of a philosophical writer previously dismissed all too often by a sensationalist coloring of his work based on the unorthodoxy of his dedicated life.”
-Genesis P-Orridge
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