THE LANCASHIRE DAILY POST

Preston, Lancashire, England

19 November 1910

(page 5)

INSANITY AND BLASPHEMY.

As for insanity, it is simply a question of finding a Greek or Latin name for any given act (says Aleister Crowley in “The Bystander”). If I open the window, it is on account of claustrophobia; when I shut it again, it is an attack of agoraphobia. All the professors tell me that every form of emotion has its roots in sex, and describe my fondness for pictures as if it were a peculiarly unnatural type of vice. It is even impossible for an architect to build a church spire without being told he is reviving the worship of Priapus. Now, the only result of all this is that all these terms of abuse have become entirely meaningless save as defined by law.