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Do Not Imagine That Art Or Anything Else Is Other Than High Magic! - Is A System Of Holy Hieroglyph. The Artist, The Initiate, Thus Frames His Mysteries. The Rest Of The World Scoff, Or Seek To Understand, Or Pretend To Understand; Some Few Obtain The Truth.

Their False Compassion Is Called Compassion And Their False Understanding Is Called Understanding, For This Is Their Most Potent Spell.

To Me, Every Dirty Act Was Simply A Sacrament Of Sin, A Passionately Religious Protest Against Christianity, Which Was For Me The Symbol Of All Vileness, Meanness, Treachery, Falsehood And Oppression.

It Is The Mark Of The Mind Untrained To Take Its Own Processes As Valid For All Men, And Its Own Judgments For Absolute Truth.

I Slept With Faith And Found A Corpse In My Arms On Awakening; I Drank And Danced All Night With Doubt And Found Her A Virgin In The Morning.