Quote by: Aleister Crowley

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for all stain is impurity. A bee's swarm is evil — inside one's clothes. "Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use Adonai as a fig-leaf for one's shame. To seduce women under the pretense of religion is unutterable foulness; though both adultery and religion are themselves clean. To mix jam and mustard is a messy mistake.


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Author Bio


  • NameAleister Crowley
  • Descriptionpoet, mountaineer, occultist
  • BornOctober 12, 1875
  • DiedDecember 1, 1947
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Novelist; Artist; Poet; Autobiographer; Writer; Mountaineer
  • WorksThe Book Of The Law