I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a skepticism about the adequacy of language to convey one's true thoughts and feelings.
Aleister Crowley expresses a profound disconnection from conventional language, suggesting that words are insufficient to capture his unique perspective. This perspective implies that personal experiences and inner truths cannot be effectively communicated through existing languages, leading him to regard spoken words as ultimately futile and misleading.
In practice
In a discussion on the inadequacy of language in expressing deep emotions.
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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