Lucifer Represents Life, Though, Progress, Civilization, Liberty,

We Live In An Age Of Prejudice, Dissimulation And Paradox, Wherein, Like Dry Leaves Caught In A Whirlpool, Some Of Us Are Tossed Helpless . . . Ever Struggling Between Our Honest Convictions And Fear Of That Cruelest Of Tyrants -- Public Opinion.

Endurance Is The Free Companion Of Sorrow, And Patience Her Master.

Meditation Has Been Defined As The Cessation Of Active Eternal Thought.

Every One Of The Numberless Religions And Religious Sects Views The Deity After Its Own Fashion; And, Fathering On The Unknown Its Own Speculations, It Enforces These Purely Human Outgrowths Of Overheated Imagination On The Ignorant Masses, And Calls Them "revelation." As The Dogmas Of Every Religion And Sect Often Differ Radically, They Cannot Be True. And If Untrue, What Are They?

The Exercise Of Magical Power Is The Exercise Of Natural Powers, But Superior To The Ordinary Functions Of Nature. A Miracle Is Not A Violation Of The Laws Of Nature, Except For Ignorant People. Magic Is But A Science, A Profound Knowledge Of The Occult Forces In Nature, And Of The Laws Governing The Visible Or The Invisible World. Spiritualism In The Hands Of An Adept Becomes Magic, For He Is Learned In The Art Of Blending Together The Laws Of The Universe, Without Breaking Any Of Them And Thereby Violating Nature.