“In other words, life is an attempt to realize one’s own nature in one’s own soul. The man who fails to recognize it as such is hopelessly bewildered by the irrational character of the universe, which he takes to be real; and he cannot but regard it as aimless and absurd. The adventures of his body and mind, with their desires for material and moral well-being, are obviously as foredoomed to disaster as Don Quixote’s. He must be a fool if he struggles on (against inexorable fate) to obtain results which he knows can only end in catastrophe, a climax the more bitter as he clings the more closely to his impossible ideals.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/06/in-other-words-life-is-an-attempt-to-realize-ones-own-nature-in-ones-own-soul-the-man-who-fails-to-recognize-it-as-such-is-hopelessly-bewildered-by-the-irrational-character-of-the-universe-wh/

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“There is no ‘reason’ why a Star should continue in its orbit. Let her rip! Every time the conscious acts, it interferes with the Subconscious, which is Hadit. It is the voice of Man, and not of a God. Any man who ‘listens to reason’ ceases to be a revolutionary. … It is ridiculous to ask a dog why it barks. One must fulfil one’s true Nature, one must do one’s Will. To question this is to destroy confidence, and so to create an inhibition. … We are not to calculate, to argue, to criticise; these things lead to division of will and to stagnation. They are shackles of our Going. They hamstring our Pegasus. We are to rise up – to Go – to Love – we are to be awake, alert”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/27/there-is-no-reason-why-a-star-should-continue-in-its-orbit-let-her-rip-every-time-the-conscious-acts-it-interferes-with-the-subconscious-which-is-hadit-it-is-the-voice-of-man/

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“We must not suppose for an instant that the Book of the Law is opposed to reason. On the contrary, its own claim to authority rests upon reason, and nothing else. It disdains the arts of the orator. It makes reason the autocrat of the mind. But that very fact emphasizes that the mind should attend to its own business. It should not transgress its limits. It should be a perfect machine, an apparatus for representing the universe accurately and impartially to its master. The Self, its Will, and its Apprehension, should be utterly beyond it.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/20/we-must-not-suppose-for-an-instant-that-the-book-of-the-law-is-opposed-to-reason-on-the-contrary-its-own-claim-to-authority-rests-upon-reason-and-nothing-else-it-disdains-the-arts-of-the-orator/

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“Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/01/our-minds-and-bodies-are-veils-of-the-light-within/

“The Formula of the New Aeon recognizes Horus, the Child crowned and conquering, as God. We are all members of the Body of God, the Sun; and about our System is the Ocean of Space. This formula is then to be based upon these facts. Our ‘Evil’, ‘Error’, ‘Darkness’, ‘Illusion’, whatever one chooses to call it, is simply a phenomenon of accidental and temporary separateness. If you are ‘walking in darkness’, do not try to make the sun rise by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/07/04/the-formula-of-the-new-aeon-recognizes-horus-the-child-crowned-and-conquering-as-god-we-are-all-members-of-the-body-of-god-the-sun-and-about-our-system-is-the-ocean-of-space-this-formula-is-th/

“The sense of sin, shame, self-distrust, this is what makes folk cling to Christianity-slavery. People believe in a medicine just in so far as it is nasty; the metaphysical root of this idea is in sexual degeneracy of the masochistic type. Now ‘the Law is for all’; but such defectives will refuse it, and serve us who are free with a fidelity the more dog-like as the simplicity of our freedom denotes their abjection.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/03/14/the-sense-of-sin-shame-self-distrust-this-is-what-makes-folk-cling-to-christianity-slavery-people-believe-in-a-medicine-just-in-so-far-as-it-is-nasty-the-metaphysical-root-of-this-idea-is-in-se/

"It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth." - The Hermetic Library Blog https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/01/18/it-is-the-mark-of-the-mind-untrained-to-take-its-own-processes-as-valid-for-all-men-and-its-own-judgments-for-absolute-truth/

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“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/01/18/it-is-the-mark-of-the-mind-untrained-to-take-its-own-processes-as-valid-for-all-men-and-its-own-judgments-for-absolute-truth/