 The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. |
| Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. |
| Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. |
| An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. |
| Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. |
| The average is that which no person quite ever is. |
| The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside. |
| Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. |
| Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. |
| A true initiation never ends. |
| Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. |
| Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul. |
| On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. |
| Belief is the death of intelligence. |
| When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. |
| Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. |
| The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. |
| You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. |
| I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. |
| Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. |
