: Re: ATDTDA (14) p 398: General Spoilers re the Chums' ending in ATD

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Fri Aug 3 14:25:51 CDT 2007


Robin writes:

> This reminds me of a line someone told me came from Crowley: 
> "In this ritual action it does not matter whether or not you 
> believe in Venus, you are to invoke her at this particular 
> moment in the ritual in order for the action to have the 
> intended result."

Or Nils Bohr, when a physicist friend visiting his home saw a good-luck
horseshoe over a door and expressed surprise that Bohr could believe in such
things:

"They say it works whether you believe in it or not." 





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