It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
Interpretation
One must possess inner strength to withstand external challenges.
This quote by Aleister Crowley emphasizes the importance of resilience and strength in the face of life's difficulties. It suggests that to thrive in an often harsh and unpredictable world, individuals need to cultivate a robust inner character that can withstand and adapt to external pressures and adversities.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire individuals facing tough situations.
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
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