The clothing of the spirit is the form which he inhabits, and must be adapted to the conditions of the planet whereon he resides.

Franz Hartmann, In The Pronaos of The Temple of Wisdom

Hermetic quote Hartmann Pronaos clothing

Consider also:

  1. “Presently I discovered that whenever anything happened to depress her she sought consolation in alcohol. The Puritan idea, the necessity of pretending to be what you are not, had destroyed her sense of freedom. She did the drinking secretly. Ultimately the smash came.”
  2. Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Vril RPG
  3. “Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revelations, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal it to our readers.”
  4. “Were this achieved the Masonic Order would become, in proportion to that achievement, a spiritual force greater than it can ever be so long as it continues content with a formal and unintelligent perpetuation of rites, the real and sacred purpose of which remains largely unperceived, and participation in which too often means nothing more than association with an agreeable, semi-religious, social institution.”
  5. Lost Horizon