Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Abbott Files Part I

This quote is from occultist, mystic and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley:

Even as evil kisses corrupt the blood, so do my words devour the spirit of man.
I breathe, and there is infinite disease in the spirit.
As an acid eats into steel, as a cancer that utterly corrupts the body; so am I unto the spirit of man.
I shall not rest until I have dissolved it all.


It is taken from Liber LXV: Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente. (The book of the heart girt with the serpent - or, in contemporary Australian political terms, the book of love squeezed by the python).

Another is from Hans Jaeger, late 19th Century bohemian radical, pornographer, intellectual charlatan and friend of Edvard Munch:

I shall not rest until I have corrupted my entire urban generation, or driven them to suicide.

Jaeger was described by a British critic as a 'fin-de-siecle Viking nihilist'.

Sunday, August 12, 2012