Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.

 

Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
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This has been attributed to Crowley on the internet, but without citation. No incidents of it in Crowley's works have as yet been located.
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Variant: Knowledge is power and knowledge shared is power lost.
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This was quoted as an "occult tradition" in Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology (1976) by Charles Lawrence Sheridan, p. 17, but without any reference to Crowley.

 

Aleister Crowley

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