Fools search for power by the removal of Masks. They seek the softness beneath. Fools do not realize that, sometimes, The Mask IS The Man.

Kneel Downe, The Copper Cascade: A Virulent ChapBook [Bookshop, Amazon]

Hermetic quote Downe The Copper Crusade the mask is the man

Consider also:

  1. “I didn’t ask to be born into this world”
  2. “Young wizards are always surprised to discover that magic doesn’t solve most of their problems.”
  3. What did you do?
  4. “the Daimon comes not as like to like but seeking its own opposite, for man and Daimon feed the hunger in one another’s hearts. Because the ghost is simple, the man heterogeneous and confused, they are but knit together when the man has found a mask whose lineaments permit the expression of all the man most lacks, and it may be dreads, and of that only.”
  5. “Ideas have no status except through forms that are accepted symbols of sentience and are spatially and outwardly self-indulgent. Excarnation of an inspired or superimposed concept may be induced and orientated by ‘space-apperception’. The whole body and being must suspire… This total effluxion makes everything reciprocal and becomes a re-orientated sequence of focused nexity. Through this harmonic relation with Ego one becomes the qualitative mediator of the hypothetical or real propensity: any position giving vastness or panorama, and, by abstractive gazing beyond distance, allowing and following the flow of thought until there is an intrusive and more cognate idea. This idea is held and projected into the ‘vista’. Nothing innate is permitted to be subtracted from the visualization.”