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

“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.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “In the congregational form of the Black Mass the priest, having finished his abominations–these are, quite frankly, indescribable–scatters the fragments of the Host on the floor, and the assistants scramble for the soiled fragments, the possession of which, they believe, will allow them to work their petty and malicious designs.”
  2. a merry mid winter maelstrom – an evocation to banish the Ex Mass
  3. My Mer-Ka-Ba
  4. “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!”
  5. “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.”