You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.