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Now see how we come at once to paradox. For the thought “There is no such thing as knowledge,” “Knowledge is a false idea,” or however it may be phrased … it is itself a thing known.

In other words, the attempt to analyse the idea leads immediately to a muddle of the mind.

But this is of the essence of the Occult Wisdom concerning Daäth. For Daäth is the crown of the Ruach, the Intellect; and its place is in the Abyss. That is, it breaks into pieces immediately it is examined.

There is no coherence below the Abyss, or in it; to obtain this, which is one of the chief canons of Truth, we must reach Neschamah.

Aleister Crowley, Little Essays Toward Truth, Knowledge

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What’s Wrong with the Movies? by Aleister Crowley in Vanity Fair, Jul 1917.

“But his successors have not his willpower. To-day every inartistic man in a movie production must needs have a finger in the artistic pie. Some of their suggestions may possibly be good, some bad; but the unity and coherence of the author’s conceptions are lost, and the outcome is a muddle. Ne sutor ultra crepidam. Too many cooks spoil the broth.” [via]