The Mind Is The Slayer

Never Allow Any Unnecessary Or Vain Thought To Occupy Your Mind. This Is More Easily Said Than Done. You Cannot Make Your Mind A Blank All At Once. So In The Beginning Try To Prevent Evil Or Idle Thoughts By Occupying Your Mind With The Analysis Of Your Own Faults, Or The Contemplation Of The Perfect Ones.

So Little Have Thee First Christians (who Despoiled The Jews Of Their Bible) Understood The First Four Chapters Of Genesis In Their Esoteric Meaning, That They Never Perceived That Not Only Was No Sin Intended In This Disobedience, But That Actually The 'serpent' Was 'the Lord God' Himself, Who, As The Ophis, The Logos, Or The Bearer Of Divine Creative Wisdom, Taught Mankind To Become Creators In Their Turn.

All Things That Ever Were, That Are, Or That Will Be, Having; Their Record Upon The Astral Light, Or Tablet Of The Unseen Universe, The Initiated Adept, By Using The Vision Of His Own Spirit, Can Know All That Has Been Known Or Can Be Known.

Every One Of The Numberless Religions And Religious Sects Views The Deity After Its Own Fashion; And, Fathering On The Unknown Its Own Speculations, It Enforces These Purely Human Outgrowths Of Overheated Imagination On The Ignorant Masses, And Calls Them "revelation." As The Dogmas Of Every Religion And Sect Often Differ Radically, They Cannot Be True. And If Untrue, What Are They?

To Act And Act Wisely When The Time For Action Comes, To Wait And Wait Patiently When It Is Time For Repose, Put Man In Accord With The Rising And Falling Tides (of Affairs). So That With Nature And Law At His Back, And Truth And Beneficence As His Beacon Light, He May Accomplish Wonders. Ignorance Of This Law Results In Periods Of Unreasoning Enthusiasm On The One Hand, And Depression On The Other. Man Thus Becomes The Victim Of The Tides When He Should Be Their Master.