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"The Logos-idea in its broadest sense, an abstraction of the Magian light-sensation of the Cavern, is the exact correlative of this sensation in Magian thought. It meant that from the unattainable Godhead its Spirit, its "Words," is released as carrier of the light and bringer of the good, and enters into relation with human being to uplift, pervade and redeem it."
-pp. 301

Tolstoi's Christianity was a misunderstanding. He spoke of Christ and he meant Marx. But to Dostoievski's Christianity will the next thousand years belong.
-pp. 274

"This, then is the conculsion of the city's history; growing from primative barter-center to Culture-city and at last to World-city, it sacrifices first the blood and sould of its creators to the needs of its majestic evolution, and then the last flower of that growth to the spirit of Civilization - and so, doomed, moves on to final self-destruction."
-pp. 252