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We Cut These Numerous Windings In Our Destinies Daily With Our Own Hands, While We Imagine That We Are Pursuing A Track On The Royal High Road Of Respectability And Duty, And Then Complain Of Those Ways Being So Intricate And So Dark. We Stand Bewildered Before The Mystery Of Our Own Making, And The Riddles Of Life That We Will Not Solve, And Then Accuse The Great Sphinx Of Devouring Us.

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.

The Man Might Have Become A Power, But He Preferred To Remain An Ass.

When Science Shall Have Effectually Demonstrated To Us The Origin Of Matter, And Proved The Fallacy Of The Occultists And Old Philosophers Who Held (as Their Descendants Now Hold) That Matter Is But One Of The Correlations Of Spirit, Then Will The World Of Skeptics Have A Right To Reject The Old Wisdom, Or Throw The Charge Of Obscenity In The Teeth Of The Old Religions.

Help Nature And Work On With Her; And Nature Will Regard Thee As One Of Her Creators . . . She Will Lay Bare Before Thy Gaze The Treasures Hidden In The Depths Of Her Pure Virgin Bosom.