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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.

Astrology Has No More Useful Function Than This, To Discover The Inmost Nature Of A Man And To Bring It Out Into His Consciousness, That He May Fulfil It According To The Law Of Light.

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The Student, If He Attains Any Success In The Following Practices, Will Find Himself Confronted By Things Too Glorious Or Dreadful To Be Described. It Is Essential That He Remain The Master Of All He Beholds, Hears Or Conceives; Otherwise He Will Be The Slave Of Illusion, And The Prey Of Madness.

I Cling Unto The Burning Æthyr Like Lucifer That Fell Through The Abyss, And By The Fury Of His Flight Kindled The Air. And I Am Belial, For Having Seen The Rose Upon Thy Breast, I Have Denied God. And I Am Satan! I Am Satan! I Am Cast Out Upon A Burning Crag! And The Sea Boils About The Desolation Thereof. And Already The Vultures Gather, And Feast Upon My Flesh.