I wonder how Pythagoras, lover of silly little dances and only very specific kinds of music, would have felt about ambient jazz on demand?

The big diff. between the Masons and the OTO is that, while both claim inheritance of the Graecian mystery traditions, only one claims to have laid the foundation for contemporary parliamentary democracy.

Marvellous, O Lord, are the works bearing witness to your hand.

Cecily: I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

When you pray, guard your heart
When you eat, guard your throat
When you speak, guard your tongue
When you visit someone, guard your eyes

Below the abyss at least, the perfect usually is trying to be the enemy of the good.

Start calling them false Christians — both because it's true, and because they'll hate it.

Comparative spiritual anatomy.

Where is the quotes from the Corpus Hermeticum automated account?

Do I have to be the quotes from the Corpus Hermeticum account?

And now I have satisfied my desire for preliminary posts.

ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë

"Such is the odious tunic you have put on." — Corpus Hermeticum VII:3, trans. Copenhaver

Reading in Islam Issa's "Alexandria" about the Heptastadion, a causeway-bridge of the ancient world whose name might as well mean "seven of (one of) our largest (?) unit(s) of measurement thing."

Like, they could have called it The Ptolemy Soter Memorial Bridge; but no, apparently not.