“If the inner eye is opened, all darkness disappears. The solar system unfolds in a vast flower-like pattern, the colors of which are beyond description. Within this structure are the auric bodies of the planets moving in stately procession about the sovereign sun....

“The Tree of Life is the spinal medulla. This Tree of Wisdom is also the ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds and numbers, with which the Logos (God) created the Universe.“ ~ Samael Aun Weor

This quote by Manly P. Hall says that the divine man is located in the head in the frontal sinus area. This is often called the third eye. It is not the pineal gland, but a gaseous material where the spirit exists or floats. This is where the student on the path of...

“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star; there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?” — Oscar Wilde: De Profundis

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the...

“The Universe does not send us despair in order to kill us; it’s sent in order to awaken us to new life.” ~ Herman Hesse

“The Initiate possesses the Lamp of Trismegistus (Tehuti), the Mantle of Apollonius, and the Staff of the Patriarchs. The lamp of Trismegistus is reason illuminated by science; the mantle of Apollonius is full and complete self-possession, which isolates the sage from...

“Years of research among the records of olden peoples available in libraries, museums, and shrines of ancient cultures, has convinced me that there exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be...