Crowley's "the method of science, the aim of religion" was a nice idea but doomed when the effort to define and standardize an element of basic tooling equivalent to, say, a thermometer takes longer than the cultural context that makes it standardizable survives
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wait, Crowley was one of those "let's completely scientificize some random instrumental thing and spend a decade doing it" wotsitsnames?
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His "science" was more fundamental experiment and observation. His outright quackery was limited to selling mail-order pills containing the "elixir of life" (semen), I can't decide if he thought of that as a con https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/lies/91.htm …
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i mean if it was just semen and no menstrual blood then he definitely thought of it as a con
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