Daily Inspiration Quote by Aleister Crowley

Crowley isn’t flirting with evil here so much as mocking the smallness of conventional rebellion. The “ordinary sense” is doing a lot of work: it casts mainstream Satanism as timid, secondhand, almost bureaucratic faith. Believing in a “personal devil” and serving him is, in Crowley’s framing, just another version of churchgoing - outsourced authority, deferred agency, prepackaged transgression.

Then he twists the knife with that punchline of ambition: “get hold of him personally” and become his “chief of staff.” It’s corporate language grafted onto metaphysics, and the effect is deliberately comic and revealing. Crowley turns damnation into careerism. If the cosmos has a dark executive, he doesn’t want to be a worshipper; he wants a job title, proximity to power, a seat in the infernal org chart. The subtext isn’t “I’m wicked.” It’s “I refuse to be managed,” even by the figure supposedly in charge of disobedience.

Context matters: Crowley built a public persona out of scandal, ritual, and maximalist self-mythology, in an era when Victorian moral order still cast a long shadow. This is contrarian theatre with a serious core. He’s dramatizing his central preoccupation - will, hierarchy, self-deification - while exposing how easily “anti” movements replicate the structures they claim to reject. Even the devil, he implies, is just another institution unless you’re running the office.