“You may say the question aloud,” Hawthorne said. “We have no secrets here.”
Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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We seek truth in all human experience, principally because we want security; we want that certainty that we are not deceiving ourselves. The question is, how do we know when we have attained truth? To most of us, truth consists of the substantiation of our ideas.
Ralph M Lewis, The Conscious Interlude [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
His brow furrowed. It irritated him that he should have gone through this hideous process so long without stopping once to question it.
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend [Bookshop, Amazon]
Anyone who destroys more than he creates must be miserable beyond expression. Question what you see by all means, but believe in something first.
Ramsey Campbell, Demons by Daylight
The question is not whether consciousness or whether knowledge, but the quality of the consciousness and of the knowledge. And that invites consideration of the quality of fineness of the human subject—the most problematic standard of all.
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.
“They must argue that we who will not even discuss the question of peace can be none other than Huns. (Now I’ve said it!)” [via]
Commentary (ΜΑ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΑ Corn Beef Hash in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“It is useless to enquire into His nature; to do so leads to certain disaster. Authority from him is exhibited, when necessary, to the proper persons, though in no case to anyone below the grade of Exempt Adept. The person enquiring into such matters is politely requested to work, and not to ask questions about matters which in no way concern him.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΑ Corn Beef Hash in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord, let men seek by experiment, and not by Questionings.” [via]
The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.
“To those deep persistent questionings which present themselves to every thinking mind, What am I? Whence come I? Whither go I?, Masonry offers emphatic and luminous answers. Each of us, it tells us, has come from that mystical ‘East,’ the eternal source of all light and life, and our life here is described as being spent in the ‘West’ (that is, in a world which is the antipodes of our original home, and under conditions of existence as far removed from those we came from and to which we are returning, as is West from East in our ordinary computation of space).” [via]