If The Effort Also Is

Fictions Are Necessary For The People, And The Truth Becomes Deadly To Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Contemplate It In All Its Brilliance. In Fact, What Can There Be In Common Between The Vile Multitude And Sublime Wisdom? The Truth Must Be Kept Secret, And The Masses Need A Teaching Proportioned To Their Imperfect Reason.

We Avoid Sensuousness, Only By Resorting To Simple Negation. We Come At Last To Define Spirit By Saying That It Is Not Matter.

Doubt, The Essential Preliminary Of All Improvement And Discovery, Must Accompany The Stages Of Man's Onward Progress. The Faculty Of Doubting And Questioning, Without Which Those Of Comparison And Judgment Would Be Useless, Is Itself A Divine Prerogative Of The Reason.

True Thoughts Have Duration In Themselves. If The Thoughts Endure, The Seed Is Enduring; If The Seed Endures, The Energy Endures; If The Energy Endures, Then Will The Spirit Endure. The Spirit Is Thought; Thought Is The Heart; The Heart Is The Fire; The Fire Is The Elixir.

Phenomena Are Constantly Folded Back Upon Themselves.