Quote#God & Faith
The skeptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity…
Quote byAleister Crowley · 1875–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 777 (1909).
English (original)
The skeptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them any objective validity, since, in so many contradictions, something must be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-embracing proves that very validity, since after all something must be true.
— Aleister Crowley
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