"Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles."
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"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations"
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"Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine."
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"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
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"The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka."
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"Magic is real. And reality... it is magical."
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
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"Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee."
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"Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity."
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"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
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"Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell."
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"The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept."
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"Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best."
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"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without."
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"Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!"
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"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
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"Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)"
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"Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed."
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"The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness."
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
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