He is a young god. Mythologically obscure, always just arriving at some new place to disrupt the status quo, wearing the start of a smile.

Anne Carson and Euripides, Bakkhai [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Carson Euripides Bakkhai young god mythologically obscure just arriving new place disrupt status quo wearing smile

Consider also:

  1. “You perfect yourself only by contributing to your fellow human beings and the world around.”
  2. Seven Demons
  3. Spiritual Centers in Man
  4. Tantra for Westerners
  5. “For in penetrating to the higher mysteries he will see things which are concealed from ordinary humanity by the illusion of the senses. If the physical senses do not allow us to perceive the higher truth, they are for this very reason our benefactors. Things are thereby hidden from us which, if realized without due preparation, would throw us into unutterable consternation, and the sight of which would be unendurable.”