Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Nobody stops to look at me in the street. My appearance is, I suppose, that of a simple country gentleman up in town for a weekend. All my notoriety arises from the fact that I am a magician. I AM THE MASTER THERION. Practically my whole life has been spent in the study of magic.”
  2. “It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!”
  3. “The effect is completely ridiculous compared with the waste of spiritual forces required to produce it.”
  4. “To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.”
  5. a merry mid winter maelstrom – an evocation to banish the Ex Mass