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 "If it FEELS good, do it!" - is a repackaging of a much older idea; very enticing to a human not in control of their desires and emotions.

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The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?
-- Jeremiah 17:9

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And one who rules his spirit, than one who captures a city.
-- Proverbs 16:32

Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
-- 1 Peter 2:11

#spiritualwarfare

Rabbit-hole: This man is Aleister Crowley. Subject of the Ozzy Osbourne song, and occult influencer of pop culture to this very day.  I believe one of the members of Led Zeppelin alao purchased his former property.  He self-described as "the evilest man who ever lived," and also claimed to be the "beast of the apocalypse."