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“If we are willing to persevere, to be patient, and to work at self-discipline, to aspire

YESSSSS OMFG GAS WENT DOWN 5 CENTS ACROSS FROM MY WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To Know, to Will, to Dare, to Keep Silent.

 Speak not of what you know at all until you become that which you seek to serve.

"Whosoever will discover who we are, will wish either to extort from us our secret, or to plan our ruin, if we refuse to reveal it to them. The world today is so wicked and so perverse; interest and ambition so dominate men that all their actions have no other aim but the satisfaction of these passions. Do we wish, as the Apostles, to perform works of mercy, and return to us evil for good. "

"And here let me give a word of advice to students. It has been proven all times that only those who apprehend the value of silence ever come into possession of Truth. It is something that never yet has been transmitted by word of mouth. It is projected by the thought of more advanced minds, and gained only through inutitional percetpion in the silence."

"Only one person should ever share this confidence with another, and that other should be a true and loving companion of the opposite sex. It is advisable for two to work and think together, because in this way the thought becomes wholly sexed, intellect supplements intuition and results are apt to be surer and quicker. Not that it is impossible to come into this unfoldment alone. Many of the older Alchemists were monks, one was a cardinal, one a pope, many were hermits."

"Alchemy is the divinity of man achived in union with faith, the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle. They are without fears and without desires, dominated by no falsehood, sharing no error, loving without illusion, suffering without impatiece, reposing in the quietude of eternal thought. They lean on religion, but are not weighed down thereby; they know what it is, and also that it is necessary and eternal. For debased souls, religion is a yoke imposed through self-interest by the cowardice of fear and the follies of hope; for exalted souls, it is a force which originates from an intensiffied reliance on the Love of Humanity. A Magus cannot be ignorant, for magic implies superiority, mastership, majority, and majority signifies emancipation by knowledge. The magus welcomes pleasure, accepts wealth, deserves honor, but is never a slave of one of them; he knows how to be poor, to abstain, and to suffer; he endures oblivion willingly because he is lord of his own happiness, and expects or fears nothing from the caprice of fortune. he can love without being loved; he can create imperishable treasures, and exalt himself above the level of honors or the prizes of the lottery. He possesses that which he seeks, namely, profound peace. He regrets nothing which must end, but remembers with satisfaction that he has met with good in all. His hope is a certitude, for he knows that good is eternal and evil transitory. He enjoys solitude but does not fly the society of man; he is a child with children, joyous with the young, staid with the old, and patient with the foolish, happy with the wise but cannot bear the vulgar. He smiles with all who smile, and mourns with all who weep; applauding strength, he is yet indulgent to weakness, offending no one, he has himself no need to pardon, for he never thinks himself offended; he pities those who misconcieve him, and seeks and opportunity to serve them; by the force of kindness only does he avenge himself on the ungrateful; he leans with affection on all arms streched out to him in the day of trouble, anddoes not mistake the irritable proide of Rousseau for a virtue. He knows that he helps others by giving them the occasion for doing good, and he never meets an offer or a demand with a refusal." 

Want is poor mortal's wages, when his toil produces only loss of pain and oil.

--Hermetic Arcanum

Im at work, can you tell? working on a bunch of computers in the back. I could fall asleep any minute now. Remind me to stop eating rice, it makes me lethargic, and my mind is all fuzzy. I can't make descisions or be myself at all if I feel like this. zomg i love rice so much though. I am going to go home and bunch of vegetables to clean out my blood. Blah. I need to get my hair cut again, its grown a lot, I suppose I'll do that on my way home. And I need to stop swearing. I've tried this already and it lasts a couple days... I just need to stop. I got my truck fixed which makes me kinda poor but its all good. I love my life.

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So this amazingly brilliant customer was talking about his amazing new 10.2 MEXA-PIX digital camera. Isn't that like racist or something. Thats the one that finally trumps LIN-SKEEZ. I want to punch people in the face when they come in asking for Lin-skeez routers. Linksys. what is hard about that? seriously!

Curiosity seekers who grumble as they experience what is here to experience, may find richness in reading the seasons in leaves.

Can there ones read the angelic message in a Blackwidow Spiderweb? Or perhaps the archangelic message in the webs of all arachnida?

Can the curiosity-seekers read the dance of the DNA, and see its shadow in the Caduceus?

Those who can will see what cultural adolescence now abounds in the fleshplace.

And in reading, what do curiosity-seekers expect? Who are the ancestors of the Great and Smaller Whales?

Should we tell them, or let them find out?

If we tell them to look in the mirror, they will be as belief-stuck as ever, and they won't get quite what it is and was anyway.

Looking glasses are better, though they are still looking glasses.

Letting them remember is better still.

And of codes and keys: What of the Red Lion, The Elixir? The stuck ones will melt pennies and try for gold.

Even those who goose-chase or even by chance find this, even they may continue to observe what comes up for them:

All there are in the fleshplace and upon many other levels and in many other spaces and places are problems, after all.

You and I, we've discovered that already.

Should we tell them that the Magical Words are, "So What?"

Aha! They may even get stuck here!

- Transformations

Possibly one of the best things I've ever read. Probably Definitly Inspiring.

A Tibetan Lamma once said that the Great Work is something that is best not started, but once started it is best finished. Once you begin to awaken your sleeping potential as a Divine being, there is no turning back. From that point on you are in an unfolding process that at times will be intensely painful, especially if you resist your own growth.

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