Subtle Body - Aleister Crowley and The Body of Light

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“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

“The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

“If a man’s eye falls
on any of her limbs first,
it is stuck on that spot.
No one at all sees her body whole.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There’s a light and a shadow on every man
Who at last attains his lifted mark—
Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
Glides white through the phosphorus sea.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)