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

“The circumstances of the moment must rule our deepest beliefs. In other words we must be opportunists.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “But who are these men of good will? Only those who happen to agree with us for the moment.”
  2. “These words, ‘Peace to men of good will,’ have been mistranslated, ‘Good will towards men.’ Christ said that he did not come to bring peace, but a sword; that he would divide mother from son and father from daughter, careless of the effect of such remarks upon the feelings of Dr. Sigmund Freud.”
  3. “There is no warrant to suppose that Christ was any kind of a Pacifist. On the contrary, he not only prophesied the most terrible wars and disasters to humanity, which, by the theory, he had absolute power to stop, but he threatened eternal damnation to the great mass of men. Billy Sunday’s presentation of Christ is a perfectly scriptural one.”
  4. “It is evident from these shining examples that our humanitarianism, like all other forms of thought, is strictly limited by time and space.”
  5. “We have the most artistic photographs dating back not so long ago of Mr. Roosevelt with his arm around the Kaiser’s neck. Immediately before the war Mr. Herbert G. Wells published a book in which he said that Germany was the one country in the world worth living in. German science, German manners, German morals, German everything was the only love of Mr. Herbert G. Wells. No sooner did war break out than he published another book to prove that Germans were raving maniacs hypnotized by Nietzsche.”