Occupation: Author Birth: August 12, 1831 Death: May 8, 1891
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss..
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice)..
That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion..
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make….
There is no religion higher than Truth..
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can,….
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them..
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….
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of indiv….
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever ….
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity..
But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return..
Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their i….
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of per….
Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior..
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief i….
And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind.
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arriv….
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race..
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all ….
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are fo….