Aleister Crowley quote: When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far ...

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.”-Review of Ida Craddock’s “Heavenly Bridegrooms

~ Aleister Crowley ~

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