Sanity Is A Compromise.

Intolerance Is Evidence Of Impotence.

In This Book It Is Spoken Of The Sephiroth And The Paths; Of Spirits And Conjurations; Of Gods, Spheres, Planes, And Many Other Things Which May Or May Not Exist. It Is Immaterial Whether These Exist Or Not. By Doing Certain Things Certain Results Will Follow; Students Are Most Earnestly Warned Against Attributing Objective Reality Or Philosophic Validity To Any Of Them.

One Must Find Out For Oneself, And Make Sure Beyond Doubt, 'who' One Is, 'what' One Is, 'why' One Is... Being Thus Conscious Of The Proper Course To Pursue, The Next Thing Is To Understand The Conditions Necessary To Following It Out. After That, One Must Eliminate From Oneself Every Element Alien Or Hostile To Success, And Develop Those Parts Of Oneself Which Are Specially Needed To Control The Aforesaid Conditions.

Fortunately We Have Learnt To Combine These Ideas, Not In The Mutual Toleration Of Sub-contraries, But In The Affirmation Of Contraries, That Transcending Of The Laws Of Intellect Which Is Madness In The Ordinary Man, Genius In The Overman Who Hath Arrived To Strike Off More Fetters From Our Understanding.

People Think That Talking Is A Sign Of Thinking. It Isn't, For The Most Part' On The Contrary, It's A Mechanical Dodge Of The Body To Relieve Oneself Of The Strain Of Thinking, Just As Exercising The Muscles Helps The Body To Become Temporarily Unconscious Of Its Weight, Its Pain, Its Weariness, And The Foreknowledge Of Its Doom.