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Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears, a series of letters, was the last book written by English occultist Aleister Crowley , although it was not published until after his death. It was written in 1943 and published in 1954 with a foreword by its editor, Karl Germer.


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“As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.”

Ch LXXIII.
Magick Without Tears (1954)
Context: As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

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