Disciples of the Mysterium Quotes

“life is not a puzzle to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character – Thomas Paine (Rights of Man)”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“There is nothing worse than self-deception – when the deceiver is at home and always with you – Plato”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light – Joseph Campbell”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim – Gustave Le Bon (The Crowd)”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“The Self is damaged when it turns to other humans instead of nature for its “reflections.” This travesty dates not only from our incarceration in cities, but from the earlier formation of language which enabled one man to communicate his mind to his fellows. In other words, the so-called “Fall” of man is due in large part to the misuse of language.”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“For empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in medical art that does not cast out the sickness of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it cast out the suffering of the soul – Epicurus”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood

“Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination In your own bosom you bear your Heaven and Earth; and all you behold, tho' it appears without, it is within, In your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow ...the imagination rises from the mind's abyss and seeks more expanded senses than the five making up that abyss”
― Michael Tsarion, Disciples of the Mysterium: An Inquiry into Selfhood