If we think that things have gone too far today, let's remind ourselves of something 70 years ago. Here are some interesting words of social criticism that one occultist has pronounced. Even today it sounds very topical.
"As I write, allegedly liberal groups are agitating for the denial of public forums to those they call fascist. American-ism societies are striving for the suppression of communist or "red" literature and speech. Religious groups, backed by a pub-licity conscious press, are constantly campaigning for the prohibition of art and literature which, as if by divine prerogative, they term "indecent", immoral or dangerous.
It would seem that all these organizations are devoted to one common purpose, the suppression of freedom. Their sincerity is no excuse. History is a bloody testament that sincerity can achieve atrocities which cynicism could hardly conceive of. Each of these groups is engaged in a frantic struggle to sell out, betray or destroy the freedom which was their birthright and which alone assured their present existence.
Freedom is a two-edged sword. He who believes that the absolute rightness of his belief is an authority to suppress the rights and opinions of his fellows cannot be a liberal. Liberalism cannot exist where it violates its own principles. It cannot exist where the emergency monger or the utopia salesman can obtain a suspension of rights, whether temporary or permanent. Liberty cannot be suppressed in order to defend liberalism."
Frater Belarion, (1946 e.v.)
[Jack Parsons - Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword]
