Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.