I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.