I shall fight openly for that which no living Englishman dare defend, even in secret — sodomy!
Aleister Crowley, Sodomy in The World’s Tragedy
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The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“What is magic today is science tomorrow. The Hindue ‘worship idols.’ Yes? But what exactly do they mean by that? As I myself have observed: they get very interesting results from their ‘worship.’
We, the enlightened West, say that their worship is ignorant superstition and the results coincidence. But are we not in the position of our mythical Englishman listening to the noise from the black box?” [via, also]
The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“If an Englishman of a generation or two ago could have been shown a little black box and told that if he turned a knob the President of the United States would talk to him, he would have laughed at the idea.
If one could have convinced him that the voice was actually that of the President that Englishman would have been forced to the conclusion that the black box was magical.
And yet we know now that the feat is quite possible, and that the box is only that kind of magic now revealed to the profane as ‘radio.'” [via, also]