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“You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a monarch or a madman. Do what you will with this volume, you will be unable to despise or to forget it.”
― Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine And Ritual
― Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine And Ritual
“The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the opportunity for all learning. It has its grades and its classes, its sciences and its arts, and admission to it is the birthright of man. Its graduates are its teachers, its pupils are all created things. Its examples are Mature, and its rules are God's laws. Those who would go into the greater colleges and universities must first, day by day, and year by year, work through the common school of life and present to their new teachers the diplomas they have won, upon which is written the name that none may read save those who have received it. The hours may be long, and the teachers cruel, but each of us must walk that path, and the only ones ready to go onward are those who have passed through the gateway of experience.”
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“The stronger the person, the less identified with a collective, be it a nation, religion or family. The weaker the person, the easier is the acceptance of collective “truths” and of finding the meaning of life in obedience.
Development of integrity means transcending boundaries of what we considered our identity; every personal determinant that restricts potential limitlessness of our actions, must be transcended.”
― Kabbalah Unveiled
Development of integrity means transcending boundaries of what we considered our identity; every personal determinant that restricts potential limitlessness of our actions, must be transcended.”
― Kabbalah Unveiled
“The correct way is to surrender yourself to “receiving”: let the text you read, the person you communicate with, the event in your life, make a change inside you. It is important to perceive every event in your life as a symbol that speaks about yourself and your consciousness. Everything you experience you have created yourself, the unawareness of this creation is only the consequence of the limited focus of consciousness.”
― Kabbalah Unveiled
― Kabbalah Unveiled
“Two and a half million years ago, when our distant relative Homo habilis was foraging for food across the Tanzanian savannah, a beam of light left the Andromeda Galaxy and began its journey across the Universe. As that light beam raced across space at the speed of light, generations of pre-humans and humans lived and died; whole species evolved and became extinct, until one member of that unbroken lineage, me, happened to gaze up into the sky below the constellation we call Cassiopeia and focus that beam of light onto his retina. A two-and-a-half-billion-year journey ends by creating an electrical impulse in a nerve fibre, triggering a cascade of wonder in a complex organ called the human brain that didn’t exist anywhere in the Universe when the journey began.”
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