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law of increasing returns can be and should be put into operation, as a matter of habit, by rendering always more service and better service than is expected of you.

harmony in the mind is attainable only through self-control.

the human brain is the instrument with which one receives, from the great storehouse of nature, the energy which is specialized into definite thoughts; that the brain does not think, but serves as an instrument for the interpretation of stimuli which cause thought.

It is no wonder the system neglects to teach children the importance of definiteness of purpose when the system, itself, has literally evolved through indefiniteness.

The school system got off to a bad start at the beginning. The schools began as institutions of " higher learning," operated entirely for the select few whose wealth and family entided them to education.

Thus the entire school system was evolved by beginning at the top and working back down to the bottom.

The only thing Devils fears: the power of independent thought backed by definiteness of purpose.

Upon each Throne reposeth a Crown with three Rays, each Ray beareth a Name, each Name is an Absolute Idea. There are Seventytwo Names upon the Twenty-four Crowns of the Schema.

The Letters are from the Numbers, and the Numbers from the Ideas, and the Ideas from the Forces, and the Forces from the Elohim. The Synthesis of the Elohim is the Schema.

The Schema is one, its columns are two, its power is three, its form is four, its reflection giveth eight, which multiplied by three giveth unto thee the twenty-four Thrones of Wisdom.

Number, weight, and measure determine the form of things; the substance is one, and God createth it eternally.

Happy is he who comprehendeth the Letters and the Numbers.

And I have become King of the Spirits as well of Heaven as of Earth, Master of the Dwellers of the Air, and of the Living Souls of the Sea, because I was in possession of the Key of the Hidden Gates of Light.

I have done great things by the virtue of the Schema Hamphorasch, and by the Thirty-two Paths of Yetzirah.

But learn to triumph thyself over Fear by Wisdom, and the Spirits will descend from Heaven to serve thee.

I, Solomon, thy father, King of Israel and of Palmyra, I have sought out and obtained in my lot the Holy Chokmah, which is the Wisdom of Adonai.

(Here King Solomon addresseth himself to his son, Roboam) :Do thou, 0 my son Roboam, remember, that the Fear of Adonai is only the beginning of Wisdom.

Keep and preserve those who have not Understanding in the Fear of Adonai, which will give and will preserve unto thee my crown.

We can train ourselves to view plants not as “things” but as patterns of moving energy.

اما روزهاى سه گانه: يك روزش همان است كه ابويزيد (بسطامى)-هنگامی كه از اواز زهد پرسش كردند -كفت: أن أسان است، من جزسه روز زاهد نبودم:
روز اول از دنيا زهد ورزيدم، وروز دوم از آخرت زهد ورزيدم، وروز سوم از تمام ماسوى الله زهد ورزيدم.

the Ophites and Templars understood the cross [to be a symbol of] the Tree of Life, or that Baphometic character which, in a Gnostic sense, ought to trample underfoot the dragon: that is, the overseer of this world.

Nearly all are gilded with silver (with a very few that are solid), which, as gilded things, served not for money, but as tokens for brothers to recognize one another.

(These were fortitude and prudence, and, being linked together with love (that is, paiderastias, [Greek, pederasty]), made all other things worthless. They though the only virtues to be what would open the way to government, and they supported [these].

They believed that at the right time, the occasion would come in which Gnosis sitting on the throne, the lion slain, and the dragon (or the world) trampled under the heel, [they] would gain control over every spiritual and temporal power. The Templars, therefore, thought the only virtues to be political ones.

Each order, though distinct, wore a white mantle with red insignias (a cross among the Templars, and a sash among the Assassins). They had numerous institutions that were in agreement in an amazing way, especially in that they very zealously practiced revealed religion (which their own arcane doctrine wholly repressed), and very urgently defended it.

in the order of the Assassins, and in that of the Templars, each of which, fortified by the arcane doctrine, sought to conquer the world in nearly the same way. In only this were they different: The Assassins dealt widely with their enemies also with the dagger. However, the Templars used only the sword against the enemy.

That this goal of the moral (or, better, immoral) Gnostic-Ophitic doctrine is precisely the same as what has been placed before true initiates at the ultimate doctrinal grade of the Assassins and of the Ismailis, we see in the words “Nothing is to be believed, and everything is permissible.”

To this depraved wisdom they connect unrestrained conduct, so that they seem to have proposed as the highest expression of wisdom the precepts “Pursue all,” and “All is permitted.”

They substituted in place of that golden sentence, “Know yourself,” the crafty, “know all, but let no one know you.” On this truly Machiavellian principal rests their whole politic, which up to now they try to sustain by the gospel precept, “Be wise as serpents.”

lustrations used not only in the Bacchanalia, but also everywhere in the mysteries of the Good Goddess. These lustrations came under the name of “baptism,” or Baphes, since those initiated were called Baptai.

First, we will investigate briefly the Gnostic cosmogony, and their doctrine about the origin of evil in the most ancient mythologies.

However, since they abandoned what can be subjected to the senses, wishing to penetrate more deeply into the mysteries of the spiritual world and of the origin of evil, they were driven into an abyss of the most ridiculous fables.

Thiscame down to the point where, persuading themselves that [there is] nothing more than the duplex genre of nature, masculine and female, which then resulted in the worship of the sun, moon, stars and elements, to which every mythology can be reduced.

[But] after numerous and vexing labors attempting to discover true knowledge, they found only that they knew nothing. Frustrated in their hope, they nevertheless busied themselves to dig up the true beginning of all, and to explain the primal cause of all phenomena.

The entire doctrine of Gnosis, as we see, revolves around two main points, that is to say, cosmogony & generating, so that it seems not at all granted to mortals to know how this world was generated, and to investigate how through generating it is continually preserved. Cognition of this mystery, and of the origin of evil, was the main focus of philosophy among all peoples, which they tried to attain in various ways