I Hardly Ever Talk- Words Seem Such

The 'lords Of The Earth' Are Those Who Are Doing Their Will. It Does Not Necessarily Mean People With Coronets And Automobiles; There Are Plenty Of Such People Who Are The Most Sorrowful Slaves In The World. The Sole Test Of One's Lordship Is To Know What One's True Will Is, And To Do It.

It Is The Mark Of The Mind Untrained To Take Its Own Processes As Valid For All Men, And Its Own Judgments For Absolute Truth.

The Devil' Is, Historically, The God Of Any People That One Personally Dislikes... This Serpent, Satan, Is Not The Enemy Of Man, But He Who Made Gods Of Our Race, Knowing Good And Evil; He Bade 'know Thyself!' And Taught Initiation. He Is 'the Devil' Of The Book Of Thoth, And His Emblem Is Baphomet, The Androgyne Who Is The Hieroglyph Of Arcane Perfection... He Is Therefore Life, And Love.

May The New Year Bring You Courage To Break Your Resolutions Early! My Own Plan Is To Swear Off Every Kind Of Virtue, So That I Triumph Even When I Fall!

If One Had To Worry About One's Actions In Respect Of Other People's Ideas, One Might As Well Be Buried Alive In An Antheap Or Married To An Ambitious Violinist. Whether That Man Is The Prime Minister, Modifying His Opinions To Catch Votes, Or A Bourgeois In Terror Lest Some Harmless Act Should Be Misunderstood And Outrage Some Petty Convention, That Man Is An Inferior Man And I Do Not Want To Have Anything To Do With Him Any More Than I Want To Eat Canned Salmon.