THAT IS SIN
“The sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight. 'The word of Sin is Restriction,' or as it has been otherwise said on this text: That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in!
Go on, go on in thy might; and let no man make thee afraid.”
— Liber DCCCXXXVII The Law of Liberty
“The word of Sin is Restriction.”
—The Book of the Law, I, 41
“The 'conviction of sin' is a modern invention due principally to the tyranny of a Pauline priestcraft. In the dark ages every calamity was attribted by the priests to sin; and, as calamities were frequent, the spirit of the people was broken. Today we have even a form of melancholia whose principal delusion is that the victim has committed the 'sin against the Holy Ghost'.”
—The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw
“Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.”
— Liber Libræ sub figurâ XXX
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: My blessing season this in thee!”
—Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3