Whoever can find the most offensive Crowley quotes wins a special prize
There are posts floating around Live Journal about Crowley being sexist and racist, and how problematic many find it to represent an Order that loves Crowley and therefore must be in full agreement with him on everything, and how many reject Crowley and the Order due to his offensive writings on these matters regardless of the fact that he lived in a far different era.
So I humbly beseech my brothers and sisters, for our own amusement and to further educate ourselves on these matters, to come up with the most offensive, sexist, racist or generally in poor taste quotes from the old Beast. Don't be shy! Speak up!! Don't make me come down there and get you!
Do you personally have a problem with Crowley's misogynistic persona? If so, what, why, and whatnot?
I will go first.. I found this quote to be a bit offensive when I first came upon it. My opinion of this Formula has since changed, but it certainly seems to imply that there is no power in hot lesbian sex, which I would disagree with, being as it were a lesbian aside from my marriage.
From THE FORMULA OF ALIM
It is only the romantic medieval perversion of science that represents young women as partaking in witchcraft, which is, properly speaking, restricted to the use of such women as are no longer women in the Magical sense of the word, because thy are no longer capable of corresponding to the formula of the male, and are therefore neuter rather than feminine. It is for this reason that their method has always been referred to the moon, in that sense of the term in which she appears, not as the feminine correlative of the sun, but as the burnt-out, dead, airless satellite of earth.
C'mon, ya'll can outdo that one easy.. don't disappoint me.
So I humbly beseech my brothers and sisters, for our own amusement and to further educate ourselves on these matters, to come up with the most offensive, sexist, racist or generally in poor taste quotes from the old Beast. Don't be shy! Speak up!! Don't make me come down there and get you!
Do you personally have a problem with Crowley's misogynistic persona? If so, what, why, and whatnot?
I will go first.. I found this quote to be a bit offensive when I first came upon it. My opinion of this Formula has since changed, but it certainly seems to imply that there is no power in hot lesbian sex, which I would disagree with, being as it were a lesbian aside from my marriage.
From THE FORMULA OF ALIM
It is only the romantic medieval perversion of science that represents young women as partaking in witchcraft, which is, properly speaking, restricted to the use of such women as are no longer women in the Magical sense of the word, because thy are no longer capable of corresponding to the formula of the male, and are therefore neuter rather than feminine. It is for this reason that their method has always been referred to the moon, in that sense of the term in which she appears, not as the feminine correlative of the sun, but as the burnt-out, dead, airless satellite of earth.
C'mon, ya'll can outdo that one easy.. don't disappoint me.