Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“But who are these men of good will? Only those who happen to agree with us for the moment.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “It is not a new story. Again and again the most priceless treasures of antiquity, to say nothing of the structure of the civilizations whence they sprung, have been destroyed utterly and irremediably in the most miserable religious and political quarrels.”
  2. “‘Battle, murder, and sudden death’ is excellent sport, and it is extremely necessary at this moment. The excretory system of nature, pestilence, has been constipated by the misguided efforts of medicine and hygiene.”
  3. “In all the universe, darkness is only found in the shadow of a gross and opaque planet, as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a flood of light eternal.”
  4. “But the treasures of art, of literature, of music, must this time be preserved for humanity; and we are determined to resist to the death any attack upon those treasures. We are — for the moment — fighting the Germans; but Faust and Siegfried and Zarathustra, the achievement of Kant in philosophy and of Helmholtz in physics, must be put ‘out of bounds.’ We stand above.”
  5. “One would hope that if [Zos Kia Cultus] is anything, it exists in that moment of contact between Spare’s work and the individual’s mind, open to its subversive influence; and then in the fruit of that communion, an inspiration and a creative response. The moment remains – the transmission continues.”