"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
-Aleister Crowley
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"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.“
-Aleister Crowley
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