Aleister Crowley Quotes
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Crowley, Aleister. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography. Edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, Hill and Wang, 1969, p. 556.
The cartoon—see image—depicts a virulently anti-Semitic Jewish Satan trodding on the skulls and bones of Jewish victims. This newspaper and most of those of the Arab Muslim world constantly run such anti-Semitic material and then complain about the insensitivity of a single Danish newspaper that ran cartoons that were insulting to Muslims.
This quotation is important for two reasons. First, it shows how important the clergy of the nation were in calling for the passage of the bill. Second, it illustrates the total blind spot that Southern leaders had on the Segregation issue. It never occurred to Russell and many other Southerners that discrimination and denial of civil rights WAS a moral issue. They saw it purely as political.
View the quotation in juxtaposition to the title of the book he wrote under the pseudonym Brutus. He was a paranoid conspiracy theorist and the “serpent” was the Roman Catholic Church which he was virulently against Catholics along with other immigrants.
He was the son of LeRoy Percy a Governor of Mississippi, who was running for that post against James Kimble Vardaman, an unabashed Racist, populist, and hate-monger. (See the related quotes for examples.) He appealed to the worst of the Mississippi. This was his famous description of the crowd that turned out for a Vardaman rally in 1903,
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life.
