Peter

“Do not worry over your past misdeeds—for worry itself breeds demons—but eliminate them from your aura, planting instead good seeds with constructive labors. Feel your own personal responsibility in this problem, for the realization of responsibility is good for the soul. Demonstrate this acceptance of responsibility to the higher powers of Cosmos, for when your light shines out, the spirits of evil must slink into the corners and cover their faces with the shadow of their cloaks.”
― Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Natural Occultism

“In his treatise on Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon tersely summarizes the situation thus: "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's mind about to religion.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teaching Of All Ages

“Men, tired of the light, take refuge in the shadow of corporeal substance: the dream of the void which God fills soon seems to them greater than God himself, and hell is created.”
― Éliphas Lévi, The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: A New Translation

“To attain the sanctum regnum, in other words, the knowledge and power of the Magi, there are four indispensable conditions–an intelligence illuminated by study, an intrepidity which nothing can check, a will which cannot be broken, and a prudence which nothing can corrupt and nothing intoxicate.

TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO KEEP SILENCE–such are the four words of the Magus, inscribed upon the four symbolical forms of the sphinx.”
― Éliphas Lévi, Dogma and Ritual of High Magic