Maynard Manzano > Maynard's Quotes

“Yielding to an urge or an inspiration, or submitting to an impulse or temptation, or taking advantage of an opportunity with no other warrant or reason than the judgment based upon analytical reasoning, is equivalent in most cases to choosing between right and wrong by the toss of a coin. Man’s reasoning cannot rise higher than the premises upon which it is based, and the premises of knowledge forming the foundation of man’s analytical reasoning may be faulty because they may not include a knowledge of the external influences and the natural laws governing his life and his affairs. As”
― H. Spencer Lewis, Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life

“and one of the regulations indicates that they were always cautious in expressing opinions of one another or of those outside of the organization, and they were not critical of the lives or affairs of the people they were trying to reform or assist. They also adhered strictly to one of their laws: “Judge not—lest ye be judged also.”
― H. Spencer Lewis, The Essenes: Digest

“Enjoyable work is creative work,”
― H. Spencer Lewis, Master of the Rose Cross

“man is essentially a soul clothed with a body, and not a body animated with a soul.”
― H. Spencer Lewis, Mansions of the Soul: The Cosmic Conception

“orthodox Christianity in the Western world today too greatly slights the mysticism and mystical principles which are fundamental to Christianity and which constituted the pristine Christianity of ancient times. In other words, too much thought is given to the literal meaning of words and the material interpretation of all of the principles involved in Christianity, which leaves almost a total neglect of the pure mysticism that makes possible a real understanding or spiritual comprehension of Christianity in its original form.”
― H. Spencer Lewis, The Mystical Life of Jesus