An Iron Chain Is Less

Passing Beauties Are Only The Fugitive Reflections Of The Eternal. All Beauty Alters And All Life Melts Away; In Short, Everything Passes With Marvelous Rapidity; Beautiful Helen Of Troy Has Become A Toothless Skull, Then A Handful Of Dust, Then Nothing.

In Olden Times Gold Was Manufactured By Science; Nowadays Science Must Be Renewed By Gold. We Have Fixed The Volatile And We Must Now Volatilize The Fixed—in Other Words, We Have Materialized Spirit, And We Must Now Spiritualize Matter.

That Great Kabbilistical Association Known In Europe Under The Name Of Masonry Appeared Suddenly In The World When The Revolt Against The Church Had Just Succeeded In Dismembering Christian Unity.

The Great Work Is, Before All Things, The Creation Of Man By Himself, That Is To Say, The Full And Entire Conquest Of His Faculties And His Future; It Is Especially The Perfect Emancipation Of His Will.

Doubt Is Really A Groping Ignorance.