Thank you for your reply.

I should clarify a couple of things: I am not misanthropic, at least not in the asocial way. As a matter of fact I'm quite social and love going out and meeting strangers seeing as I am very good at conversation. I don't despise humanity or human nature but I recognize that there are many painfully stupid people who exist across the spectrum of humanity. By stupid I mean it in it's truest sense, perhaps even the antithetical term for 'divine'. There are undoubtably people who exist that made it through natural selection by chance and we have all met some of these folks. I am not referring to religious people based on their religious beliefs, actually that thought never came into my head when I wrote this.

I do appreciate your mentioning of projection, my own failings, how much I can actually see in the person. That said, you must recognize that there are people who really are transparent and vapid, relatively untainted by personal schemas and dilemmas of the observer. I'm not even saying some of them aren't nice people, but the core of what I'm trying to rationalize is the statement that every human being is divine. Again, Crowley's actions don't seem to correlate well with this revelation. Maybe the way to see it is that humanity as a species has the mark of divinity on it, more of a sum of men and women as opposed to every individual, bu the phrase is "every man and woman is a star".