We Stand Above by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“We have our attention taken away from the business of fighting by the miserable grunts of these self-advertising pigs, who are only guinea-pigs in so far as they can always be counted on to sell their souls for a guinea. It is not only useless and stupid to refuse the benefits of those who at the very lowest estimate were our friends, but the absolute destruction of the whole principle of civilization.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “This may be a little difficult, as we have all forgotten what those points were; but at least we can try to come to some arrangement as to what is best to be done.”
  2. “Whether we want to fight Germany or to come to an amicable understanding with her does not matter. In either case, we are handicapping ourselves by hating her. We are failing to see her point of view.”
  3. “The danger is enormous. Even defeat would be preferable to a universal iconoclasm.”
  4. “We had to get rid of the surplus population, and we chose our own foolish way instead of Nature’s wise way. So not a word against war!”
  5. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism