quote for the day

Much like Bataille, Crowley finds in sexual magick the most powerful means to shattering the limited rational mind and finite human ego. Sexual transgression is also a transgression of the boundaries of ordinary consciousness itself. Following Nietzsche, Crowley sees the rational, logical thinking mind as a kind of epi-phenomenon and aberration of the true human self, which is bodily, instinctive and sensual. "Consciousness is a symptom of disease;" but in the moment of sexual union and orgasm -- called here "the Charioting" -- the thinking mind is temporarily blotted out, allowing a fleeting glimmer of "universal consciousness:"

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Unleashing_the_Beast.htm#_edn5