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"The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them." - - - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"The indwelling god is himself being brought to birth within the womb of humanity. Each individual is gestating a divinity within the deeps of his own nature. Christianity has fervently exhorted us to look into the empyrean to find the unapproachable God. All the while the infant deity slumbers unheeded within the heart. Christianity has largely nullified the force of St. Paul's almost frantic cry to us: 'Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is within you?' "
- - - Alvin Boyd Kuhn, "The Lost Light: an interpretation of ancient scriptures"

"We are Mystics, ever eagerly seeking a solution of unpleasant facts.
We are Men of Science, ever eagerly acquiring pertinent facts.
We are Sceptics, ever eagerly examining those facts.
We are Philosophers, ever eagerly classifying and co-ordinating those well-criticised facts.
We are Epicureans, ever eagerly enjoying the unification of those facts.
We are Philanthropists, ever eagerly transmitting our knowledge of those facts to others.
Further, we are Syncretists, taking truth from all systems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly discarding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect." - - - Aleister Crowley, Equinox, v.1 n.2

"I exhort men to cease to hide themselves in the refuges which they have constructed in themselves from their fear of facing reality." - - - Aleister Crowley, in the "K Comment"

"I do not mean by this that such a man could not have existed; preached; and suffered. I do not mean to say that such a man could not have been born. On the contrary: Such men are born constantly, and they will continue to be born throughout the ages: Incarnations of the Logos, Temples of the Holy Ghost, Crosses of Matter crowned by the Rose of the Spirit." - - - Marcelo Ramos Motta, Letter to a Brazilian Mason

"From the time you will be able to make it rain, or snow, you will have twelve incarnations left on this world" - - - Jean Dubuis, from an interview with Mark Stavish

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." - - - Anais Nin

"The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move - that's real magic. The way a leaf grows, the song of the birds - the way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh my boy, that's...that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart, every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery - a marvel there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, 'I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic.' Every time such a thing happens, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."
- Dr. Lao, "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao"

"The clergy...believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

"But this is the adventure for which man was created.
Man is a being who in the little world is no more than a seed, whose incredible flowering in eternity cannot be dimly imagined by the denizens of the little world." - - - John W. Parsons, ca. 1950
Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword and other essays

"Tantra "plays" with sex indeed; gets absorbed in sex,
but does not allow the sex to indulge, covet, lust or
get passionate. Tantra worships it; venerates and adores
it. Sex in Tantra is a bath in icy fire. It excites
without losing calmness, loves without passion. It
reflects the illuminated state of Grace as sunlight
reflects the dewy innocence of the colours on a lotus
just bloomed." - - - B. Bhattacharya, from "The World of Tantra"

"Wisdom is called the splendor of eternal light." - - - Origen

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - - - Albert Einstein

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary." - - - Henry Miller

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West

"our elementary lines are produced by a continual cascade of droplets as a flux in the mechanism of our magic". - - - MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA, John Dee

All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. - - - Liber DCCCXXXVII: The Law of Liberty, A Tract of To Mega Therion (A. Crowley)

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Age: forty-nine

Gender: male

Marital / familial status: married with young children

Location: great lakes region of the U.S.A.

Spiritual / religious orientation: Thelema and Magick

Aspiration: zealous and proficient application of the principals of scientific illuminism as expounded by Aleister Crowley

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