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

“Good feeling, honor, truthfulness are merely false ideas. They are liable at any moment to get you into a mess.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The word ‘turbulence’ is applied to the Ego to suggest the French ‘tourbillion’, whirlwind, the false Ego or dust-devil. True life, the life, which has no consciousness of ‘I’, is said to be choked by this false ego, or rather by the thoughts which its explosions produce. In paragraph 4 this is expanded to a macrocosmic plane.”
  2. “ANOTHER point is the question of ‘new stuff.’ One enterprising movie manager did actually go so far as to engage a set of competent artists–at $150 per diem, all told–to get out new ideas for him: original costumes, lights, scenery, and all the rest of it. They produced new ideas. ‘Fine! Fine!’ cried he. Then a horrid doubt seized him. ‘But this isn’t a bit like what we’ve been used to!’ he stammered. ‘No,’ they said, ‘it’s new. You said ‘new,’ you know!’ ‘That’s right, I did,’ he cried, ‘but, say, the public wouldn’t stand for this, it’s too new.'”
  3. “But who are these men of good will? Only those who happen to agree with us for the moment.”
  4. “The circumstances of the moment must rule our deepest beliefs. In other words we must be opportunists.”
  5. “All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.”