Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.