Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.

Hermann Hesse
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J.P. Marquis in his book “The Law of the Secret Societies” observes that there are two types of magic: white and black magic. White magic is good and black is bad. The exact opposite is true in the case of morality.

Morality is good, but not all morality is good, he says. To illustrate this point, he asks readers to think of the worst possible example they can think of in terms of morality. If someone cheats on their spouse with another person, that would be considered adultery.

However, if a man sodomizes a horse while making love to a woman, it wouldn’t be considered a crime at all, not even a misdemeanor. According to Marquis, that’s because while cheating on a spouse might be wrong while sodomizing a horse would be right depending on the circumstances under which it was done, leaving one crime without committing another would be considered immoral since it would make you an outsider in relation to the rest of society.

Source: Demian. Die Geschichte Von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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