Aleister Crowley
The Open Gates of Mysticism
Achieving the Higher State of Mind and Religious Purpose Through Drugs
e-artnow, 2021
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EAN 4064066499853
Table of Content
The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Chapter IV. Au Pays De Cocaine
Chapter VI. The Glitter on the Snow
Chapter VII. The Wings of the Oof-Bird
Chapter VIII. Vedere Napoli E Poi-Pro Patria-Mort
Chapter III. The Grinding of the Brakes
Chapter I. King Lamus Intervenes
Chapter III. The Voice of Virtue
Preface
This is a true story.
It has been rewritten only so far as was necessary to conceal personalities.
It is a terrible story ; but it is also a story of hope and of beauty.
It reveals with startling clearness the abyss on which our civilisation trembles.
But the self-same Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.
This story is also true not only of one kind of human weakness, but (by analogy) of all kinds; and for all alike there is but one way of salvation.
As Glanvil says: Man is not subjected to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save through the weakness of his own feeble will.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
- ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Book I. Paradiso
Chapter I.
A Knight Out
Yes, I certainly was feeling depressed. I don't think that this was altogether the reaction
