Fear Is Nothing But Idleness Of The

Weakness Ever Sympathizes With Vice, Because Vice Is A Weakness Which Assumes The Mask Of Strength. Madness Holds Reason In Horror, And On All Subjects It Delights In The Exaggerations Of Falsehood. The Cause Of All Bewitchments, The Poison Of All Philtres, The Power Of All Sorcerers Are There.

Succeed In Not Fearing The Lion, And The Lion Will Fear You. Say To Suffering, 'i Will That You Shall Become A Pleasure,' And It Will Prove To Be Such-- And Even More Than A Pleasure, It Will Be A Blessing.

When We Love, We See The Infinite In The Finite. We Find The Creator In The Creation.

Hermeticism Is The Science Of Nature Hidden In The Hieroglyphics And Symbols Of The Ancient World. It Is The Search For The Principle Of Life, Along With The Dream (for Those Who Have Not Yet Achieved It) Of Accomplishing The Great Work, That Is The Reproduction By Man Of The Divine, Natural Fire Which Creates And Recreates Beings.

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.