I’m a master now, an idea transcended into life. And so this is my new path, which is a lot like the old one, but mine. To stay on that path, I need to work harder, explore new rituals, evolve. Am I evil? Am I good? I’m done asking those questions. I don’t have the answers.
Daniel Cerone, Dexter [Amazon, Showtime], s02e12, “The British Invasion”
She was silky and sullen and swift and perverse, loving to tease her master with pretended indifference, only to overwhelm him with the greater vehemence at the end, like a cat playing with a mouse. She had all the stealth and self-possession of a cat, moreover; and Cleon thought himself lucky to be beloved of one so skilled in every art of pleasing and exciting.
Mark Wells (Aleister Crowley), The Burning of Melcarth
‘I am sorry, master.’ ‘Never be sorry for who you are, Jonathan,’ the master said. ‘Though I do wish you had better table manners.’
Lavie Tidhar, Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels [Amazon, Publisher]
We confuse ourselves, believing that evidence is the master of truth when really evidence is only the servant of truth.
Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams
Israel Regardie quote posted by T Polyphilus over on his blog today at “The Feast of T.H.T.I.T.I. Brother Israel Regardie“:
He said, as interviewed by Alan Miller (1985):
“I don’t consider myself a Master, in no way. [Crowley] may be a Master. I’m not. The less gab they have, the less emphasis on I love you, you love me, God loves us, and I love God, the more emphasis on the facts. Look, you’re a human being, and you’ve got a certain amount of guts — use it as a means of scaling the ladders of achieving the heights. Love and God will take care of themselves. First, be yourself, damn it, and stop talking about things you have no understanding of. This is my attitude.”
Commentary (ΜΕ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΕ Chinese Music in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The Master (in technical language, the Magus) does not concern himself with facts; he does not care whether a thing is true or not: he uses truth and falsehood indiscriminately, to serve his ends. Slaves consider him immoral, and preach against him in Hyde Park.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΕ Chinese Music in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“‘White is white’ is the lash of the overseer: ‘white is black’ is the watchword of the slave. The Master takes no heed.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΕ Chinese Music in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“And yet doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.” [via]
Commentary (ΜΑ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΑ Corn Beef Hash in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“V.V.V.V.V. is the motto of a Master of the Temple (or so much He disclosed to the Exempt Adepts), referred to in Liber LXI. It is he who is responsible for the whole of the development of the A∴A∴ movement which has been associated with the publication of THE EQUINOX; and His utterance is enshrined in the sacred writings.” [via, see, see]
The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.
“Under the name of Hiram, then, and beneath a veil of allegory, we see an allusion to another Master; and it is this Master, this Elder Brother who is alluded to in our lectures, whose ‘character we preserve, whether absent or present’, i.e., whether He is present to our minds or no, and in regard to whom we ‘adopt the excellent principle, silence,’ lest at any time there should be among us trained in some other than the Christian Faith, and to whom on that account the mention of the Christian Master’s name might possibly prove an offence or provoke contention.” [via]