The Key Of Joy Is Disobedience.

But Neither Europe Nor Africa Can Show Any Such Desolation As America. The Proudest, Stubbornest, Bitterest Peasant Of Deserted Spain, The Most Primitive And Superstitious Arab Of The Remotest Oases, Are A Little More Than Kin And Never Less Than Kind At Their Worst; Whereas In The United States One Is Almost Always Conscious Of An Instinctive Lack Of Sympathy And Understanding With Even The Most Charming And Cultured People.

Crime, Folly, Sickness And All Phenomena Must Be Contemplated With Complete Freedom From Fear Aversion Or Shame. Otherwise We Shall Fail To See Accurately, And Interpret Intelligently; In Which Case We Shall Be Unable To Outwit And Outfight Them.

The Greatest, Like Rembrandt, Paint A Gallant, A Hag, And A Carcass With Equal Passion And Rapture; They Love The Truth As It Is. They Do Not Admit That Anything Can Be Ugly Or Evil; Its Existence Justifies Itself. This Is Because They Know Themselves To Be Part Of An Harmonious Unity; To Disdain Any Item Of It Would Be To Blaspheme The Whole. The Thelemite Is Able To Revel In Any Experience Soever; In Each He Recognizes The Tokens Of Ultimate Truth. It Is Surely Obvious, Even Intellectually, That All Phenomena Are Interdependent, And Therefore Involve Each Other.

Sit Still. Stop Thinking. Shut Up. Get Out! The First Two Of These Instructions Comprise The Whole Of The Technique Of Yoga. The Last Two Are Of A Sublimity Which It Would Be Improper To Expound In This Present Elementary Stage.

How Right Politicians Are To Look Upon Their Constituents As Cattle! Anyone Who Has Any Experience Of Dealing With Any Class As Such Knows The Futility Of Appealing To Intelligence, Indeed To Any Other Qualities Than Those Of Brutes.