Aleister Crowley

Heroin and cocaine enable one to attain a high degree of concentration

artificially, and this has to be paid for by a long period of reaction in which one cannot fix one's mind on a subject at all

life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed

It is the most important of the tasks of the Yogi, because, until he has achieved it, he can have no idea who he is or where he is going

4)Yoga means Union

It means a binding together

We are constantly tempted to see and hear what we want to see and hear

that thou writest is the threefold Book of Law

The Order to which I belong," pursued Simon Iff," does not believe anything; it knows, or it doubts, as the case may be; and it seeks ever to increase human knowledge by the method of science,

The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will.