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Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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Warwickshire
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When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed but all is trulier understood with every step.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever only revolution can save it.
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This formula of Love is universal all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.
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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
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Here again, there is no tabulation for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.
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