Friendship With Aleister Crowley
Eckenstein was one of the few people who readily climbed with mystic and magician Aleister Crowley. In his autobiography Confessions, Crowley praises Eckenstein in several passages, mentioning his gymnastic strength, including his ability to do one-arm chin ups. Crowley dedicated the book to six men, including "OSCAR ECKENSTEIN - who trained me to follow the trail".
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“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”
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“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”
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“I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.”
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