Must Not Understanding Lie Open Unto Wisdom

Indubitably, Magic Is One Of The Subtlest And Most Difficult Of The Sciences And Arts. There Is More Opportunity For Errors Of Comprehension, Judgment And Practice Than In Any Other Branch Of Physics.

The Conscience Of The World Is So Guilty That It Always Assumes That People Who Investigate Heresies Must Be Heretics; Just As If A Doctor Who Studies Leprosy Must Be A Leper. Indeed, It Is Only Recently That Science Has Been Allowed To Study Anything Without Reproach.

But Neither Europe Nor Africa Can Show Any Such Desolation As America. The Proudest, Stubbornest, Bitterest Peasant Of Deserted Spain, The Most Primitive And Superstitious Arab Of The Remotest Oases, Are A Little More Than Kin And Never Less Than Kind At Their Worst; Whereas In The United States One Is Almost Always Conscious Of An Instinctive Lack Of Sympathy And Understanding With Even The Most Charming And Cultured People.

The Inmost Is One With The Inmost; Yet The Form Of The One Is Not The Form Of The Other; Intimacy Exacts Fitness. He Therefore Who Liveth By Air, Let Him Not Be Bold To Breathe Water. But Mastery Cometh By Measure: To Him Who With Labour, Courage, And Caution Giveth His Life To Understand All That Doth Encompass Him, And To Prevail Against It, Shall Be Increase. "the Word Of Sin Is Restriction": Seek Therefore Righteousness, Enquiring Into Iniquity, And Fortify Thyself To Overcome It.

A Single Ego Is An Absurdly Narrow Vantage Point From Which To View The World.