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

“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.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “We should, therefore, say, ‘My dear friends, you are quite wrong in supposing that you are cornered. We do not wish to hurt you. We wish to come to an agreement with you on the points in dispute.'”
  2. “Now what is the proper way to deal with people in this situation? There is only one sensible thing to do. We must remove the cause of their belief. Until we do this they are assuredly right in continuing to believe it.”
  3. “The Australians have a better way of explaining these things. They say truthfully, ‘Oh, you are all right,’ and then as a sort of after thought, sadly, ‘It is a pity the tree fell on you.'”
  4. "Where such ideas are pushed to the limit the results are utterly abominable. We need only refer to the destruction of one of the finest races of the world, the American Indian, which was due to nothing but the conviction that he was a remorseless and treacherous savage."
  5. “I learned also that my best chance of defeating him was to know what he was going to do before he did it; to read his mind in his eye and his wrist.”