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

“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!” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The hoodwink was removed from my eyes at a throne set up in darkness in the west. Here I was confronted by a black-hooded officer representative of the god Horus.”
  2. “Witchcraft is a more or less solitary form of black magic.”
  3. “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.”
  4. “Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results–of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.”
  5. “Spiritualism–more correctly, spiritism–is not a form of black magic.”