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You have to work for knowledge and submit to discipline, curb your curiosity. Unless you submit to these conditions, there is no knowledge and no power. It's a power entirely different from what you crave. You can
not have it if you want it just to control other people.

Then what do you use it for? He challenged in the dim light.

To control yourself. That doesn't sound so attractive, does it?

Now the Magister stood before the last step. The next to the last step, however, involves lengthy tasks which demand great patience, and one can never ask when he will reach the end. He must first perform certain selfless duties that might take decades— or more than a century. For the difference between a Magister and Magus is that between an industrious talent and a
genius.

...The disciple is alone during every crisis and every solution.
Be careful, strong, and brave, and persevere in your efforts. Remember you cannot turn back. You are in the middle of the sea of mysteries and must reach the other shore. You may reach this shore in years, months, or centuries— it all depends on you...

A satisfied, lecherous smile stole over Casanova's face. "Certainly there are some languages I know very well indeed. But you speak them nearly as well as I do. Your mysterious ways are just as effective with women as my notorious reputation. I've envied you more than once — the way you can bring a shadow of youth back into the face of a woman who fears she is losing her charms."

"Do you like my little toys?" Saint-Germain smiled at my bewilderment.
"They astound me," I admitted.
"Louis XV thought they were devilish, but he wanted them so much he tried to steal them. Really this wizardry is just a little loan from the future. Such things will become commonplace. People will acquire these comforts only to find they do not solve their problems.

My mother came up to me, encouragement in her every feature. I embraced her. "Distance means nothing to the soul," she whispered. "You have to check your knowledge before every important examination, you know. Go in peace, Cornelius."

Though He is unmanifested, yet is He a part of every being, an invisible substance that cannot be destroyed...For the Everlasting needs no experience. He is unchanging and is Lord over death...

Being afraid of something makes you a magnet for that of which you are
afraid; if you stop being afraid, the magnetic attraction ceases.

I had been shocked out of my astral daze by witnessing the transitory form & inevitable disintegration of even the most triumphant beauty.Now I understand that carnal pleasure and self-centered lust were all hopeless illusions and that those fireworks of emotion and sentiment were satanic in essence, carrying deadly peril in their wake.I understand— but the word is too feeble;it means something different to everybody

I loved to watch the interplay of sky and sea, these masterpieces of whimsical and powerful artists who forever brought new variations to their work. There was the pearl gray curtain of dawn, then the royal disc of the sun glided forth with a different entourage of color each day. It would change in front of my eyes from a blood-red lamp to a white fireball that heated the air like a furnace.