Everything Lives By Movement, Everything Is Maintained

Passing Beauties Are Only The Fugitive Reflections Of The Eternal. All Beauty Alters And All Life Melts Away; In Short, Everything Passes With Marvelous Rapidity; Beautiful Helen Of Troy Has Become A Toothless Skull, Then A Handful Of Dust, Then Nothing.

To Practice Magic Is To Be A Quack; To Know Magic Is To Be A Sage.

Renounce To The Desire Of Possessing Worldly Things: This Is The First Step In The Path Of Perfection; By Mean Of This Absolute Untie Is How The Passions Can Be Fought.

What Is More Absurd And More Impious Than To Attribute The Name Of Lucifer To The Devil, That Is, To Personified Evil. The Intellectual Lucifer Is The Spirit Of Intelligence And Love; It Is The Paraclete, It Is The Holy Spirit, While The Physical Lucifer Is The Great Agent Of Universal Magnetism.

In Olden Times Gold Was Manufactured By Science; Nowadays Science Must Be Renewed By Gold. We Have Fixed The Volatile And We Must Now Volatilize The Fixed—in Other Words, We Have Materialized Spirit, And We Must Now Spiritualize Matter.