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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.”

Aleister Crowley book Magick Without Tears

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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