It Is Necessary To Dare

There Exists In Nature A Force Which Is Immeasurably More Powerful Than Steam, And By Means Of Which A Single Man, Who Knows How To Adapt And Direct It, Might Upset And Alter The Face Of The World.

Mistress Of Love Or Of Hate, Occult Science Can Dispense Paradise Or Hell At Its Pleasure To Human Hearts; It Disposes Of All Forms And Confers Beauty Or Ugliness; With The Wand Of Circe It Changes Men Into Brutes And Animals Alternately Into Men.

When One Creates Phantoms For Oneself, One Puts Vampires Into The World, And One Must Nourish These Children Of A Voluntary Nightmare With One's Blood, One's Life, One's Intellegence, And One's Reason, Without Ever Satisfying Them.

Order Is Never Observed; It Is Disorder Which Attracts Attention Because It Is Awkward And Intrusive.

Succeed In Not Fearing The Lion, And The Lion Will Fear You. Say To Suffering, 'i Will That You Shall Become A Pleasure,' And It Will Prove To Be Such-- And Even More Than A Pleasure, It Will Be A Blessing.