Weak People Talk And Do Not Act,

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.

When One Creates Phantoms For Oneself, One Puts Vampires Into The World, And One Must Nourish These Children Of A Voluntary Nightmare With One's Blood, One's Life, One's Intellegence, And One's Reason, Without Ever Satisfying Them.

Mistress Of Love Or Of Hate, Occult Science Can Dispense Paradise Or Hell At Its Pleasure To Human Hearts; It Disposes Of All Forms And Confers Beauty Or Ugliness; With The Wand Of Circe It Changes Men Into Brutes And Animals Alternately Into Men.

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.

That Great Kabbilistical Association Known In Europe Under The Name Of Masonry Appeared Suddenly In The World When The Revolt Against The Church Had Just Succeeded In Dismembering Christian Unity.