An Exerpt from Confessions of Aleister Crowley on
Secrecy
Most
true tales worth telling are either
incredible,
improper or both. One of the reforms which I introduced into the
A.'. A.'. was the
abolition of all obligations of secrecy. They were never useful
except as temptations to people to
break
them. The secret knowledge has quite adequate warders. I have
learnt that I have only to tell the
truth about almost anything to be set down at once as a liar.
It is far better to throw dust in the
eyes of the animals whose faces are turned to the ground, by
casual frankness. If you have a
secret, it is always dangerous to let people suspect that you
have something to hide.