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“There are some people so simple as to think that, when they have proved the religious instinct to be a mere efflorescence of the sex-instinct, they have destroyed religion. We should rather consider that the sailor’s tavern gives him his only glimpse of heaven, just as the destructive criticism of the phallicists has only proved sex to be a sacrament. Consciousness, says the materialist, axe in hand, is a function of the brain. He has only re-formulated the old saying, ‘Your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost.’!” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/09/there-are-some-people-so-simple-as-to-think-that-when-they-have-proved-the-religious-instinct-to-be-a-mere-efflorescence-of-the-sex-instinct-they-have-destroyed-religion-we-should-rather-consider/ #ANoteOnTheurgy #aleisterCrowley #axeInHand #bodies #book #consciousness #consider #destroyedReligion #destructiveCriticism #EnergizedEnthusiasm #functionOfTheBrain #glimpseOfHeaven #holyGhost #LiberDCCXI #materialist #mereEfflorescence #oldSaying #onlyProved #phallicists #proved #quote #reFormulated #religiousInstinct #sacrament #sailorSTavern #sex #sexInstinct #soSimple #somePeople #temples #think

“There are some people so simple as to think that, when they have proved the religious instinct to be a mere efflorescence of the sex-instinct, they have destroyed religion. We should rather consider that the sailor’s tavern gives him his only glimpse of heaven, just as the destructive criticism of the phallicists has only proved sex to be a sacrament. Consciousness, says the materialist, axe in hand, is a function of the brain. He has only re-formulated the old saying, ‘Your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost.’!” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/09/there-are-some-people-so-simple-as-to-think-that-when-they-have-proved-the-religious-instinct-to-be-a-mere-efflorescence-of-the-sex-instinct-they-have-destroyed-religion-we-should-rather-consider/ #ANoteOnTheurgy #aleisterCrowley #axeInHand #bodies #book #consciousness #consider #destroyedReligion #destructiveCriticism #EnergizedEnthusiasm #functionOfTheBrain #glimpseOfHeaven #holyGhost #LiberDCCXI #materialist #mereEfflorescence #oldSaying #onlyProved #phallicists #proved #quote #reFormulated #religiousInstinct #sacrament #sailorSTavern #sex #sexInstinct #soSimple #somePeople #temples #think