Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to John Symonds

 

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[Undated: circa 1946]

 

 

The close connection of sexual energy with the higher nervous centers makes the sexual act definitely magical. It is therefore a sacrament which can and should be used in the Great Work. The act of being creative, ecstatic and active, its vice consists in treating it as sentimental, emotional, passive.

 

 

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