I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“I always think of Mr Wells’ First Men in the Moon. How to act when the fundamental conditions of life are changed? The danger of making fatal mistakes is always present.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The forces had other and worse effects. An employee (who had not touched alcohol for twenty years) suddenly got drunk and tried to murder his wife and children. This was one of many similar cases. One summer more than half my pack of bloodhounds died. My servants were always getting ill. One of the men I employed to lay down putting greens went insane and tried to murder my wife.”
  2. “It was at the direction of the head of the Order that I then went to Scotland, to my manor house of Boleskine, which is two or three miles from the Falls of Foyers. My subsidiary object–the principal aim is too sacred to discuss–put into simple language was to gain control over the ‘four great princes’ of the evil of the world.”
  3. “A girl played the violin during the rites. She was a good violinist, but under the influence of the ceremonies, she was more; she played sublimely, like a supreme virtuoso, in the magical invocations directed upon her.”
  4. “Oh no! I’m all right. One must speak sometimes, one can’t spend one’s life grinning like a Cheshire cat, and pretending one thinks everything perfect.”
  5. “The admission of every Mason into the Order is, we are taught, ‘an emblematical representation of the entrance of all men upon this mortal existence.’ Let us reflect a little upon these pregnant words.”