Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.