The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.