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It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator who periodically reabsorbed His Universe back to Himself.

— Manly P. Hall

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Philosophy is the science of estimating values.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship?

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry (1923)

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

Think on These Things (1998)

The alchemical tradition assumes that every physical art or science is a body of knowledge which exists only because it is ensouled by invisible powers and processes.

Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism (1988)

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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