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.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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