Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
Withdraw into yourself and look.
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.