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Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“I still retain much of the good effect of this experiment.
My intellectual activity has not only been conserved but intensified, and I am still enjoying perfect health and energy.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“Six years later I experimented again with the elixir, taking precautions to avoid such drastic results. The result was that at 47 I was as powerful an athlete as any man of 30.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“These fantastic physical powers lasted for about two months, and were followed by reaction. For half a year I was in a state of lassitude. I had been playing with a dangerous recipe.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“One day, without warning, I woke up to find that I had lost all my maturity. I became mentally and physically a stupid stripling. The only thing I could think of doing was to cut down trees!
I was living in a cottage in New Hampshire; for fifteen hours a day I toiled at felling trees. I worked like a madman. No feat of strength was too great for me.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“I made it first when I was forty. It was done hastily and with imperfect knowledge. I took seven doses, as the first two or three had no apparent effect. The consequences were extremely violent.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“I have prepared the elixir of life, that magical draught which gives eternal youth. Like the touch of Midas, it is not an unmixed blessing.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“In theory there is no limit to the power of magic. A magician is like a mathematician; he has complete control of the symbols as long as he keeps to the rules.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“The true magician is above spite and venom. He tries to bring about the results for which he is working, not by sudden and disruptive interference with the existing order of things, but by slow natural processes.” [via, also]
Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“The effect is completely ridiculous compared with the waste of spiritual forces required to produce it.” [via, also]