“Through metaphor, we can only paint a picture. The shapes and colors can only be realized through meditation on the metaphors and doing the work itself. There is no substitute for the latter, and, while many have not practiced Goetic evocation as classically described, they have evoked "unawares," over and over again, the same powerful forces and demons which have both helped and hindered them.”
“Evil is an "externalization" and "objectification" of something fearful, horrifying, or different. Evil can be a label for something as simple as a person or an object that frustrates us. Evil is pain.
Evil is the enemy. Evil is the Gods of other men. Evil is the night terrors. Evil is the overwhelming feeling of falling apart. Yet all these images are non-sense. Evil like other ideas exists because we as humans exist. Nature knows not Evil, neither Good, nor for that matter Law. These are creations of the human mind, "explanations" which help us quiet the "terrors of the night." The human mind requires the belief in "its" idea of order" for the sale purposes of the human mind. Thus the nature of evil is the human mind.”
Aleister Crowley, in The Nature of Evil
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