Aleister Crowley Quotes

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

All things are known to the soul.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of contemplation, the great Within radiantly unfolds. And in all cases, the eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you: the eye of contemplation.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.