Aleister Crowley Quotes
There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'
Crowley, Aleister. Absinthe: The Green Goddess. The International, 1918.
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This is a very important quote for it shows the young, pragmatic, pluralistic, tolerant politician who ran for the Mayor of Istanbul. As he acquitted power he became an insular, ego maniac, intolerant, authoritarian, paranoid, and often irrational. But in his earlier years he was an outstanding leader and politician. In this quotation he instructed his campaign followers to not berate or physically assault those Muslims who drank alcohol in reseraunnts, but instead to salute them and bring them into the movement by being tolerant of all the various degrees of orthodoxy to islam. The the fundamentalist drinking alcohol is a serious sin, but doing so in a public place is a danger to the community norms and morality. He used to advocate a big tent.
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.
