Philosophical Aphorisms, Epigrams, and Maxims

 

• Who can Overcome him whose Mind is stayed on God?
• The Wise man, and the despiser of wealth, resemble God.
• I am Nothing, yet I AM Everything.
• Do not investigate the name of God, because you will not find it. For everything which is called by a name, receives its appellation from that which is more worthy than itself, so that it is one person that calls, and another that hears. Who is it, therefore, that has given a name to God? God, however, is not a name to God, but an indication of what we conceive of Him.
• God is a Light incapable of receiving its contrary, darkness.
• If you identify with your Oness of Spirit, by the Law of Affinity, that is what you will become.
• You have Within yourself something similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the Temple of God, on account of that which is Within you resembles God.
• I Understand that which it is Impossible to define, That is God.
• The Mind Overcomes. The Hidden is Revealed. Seek the Truth.
• Honor God above All Things, that He may Rule over you.
• The greatest of all Masters is the Master within, for this Master is Ultimately, and at its Deepest Level, the Divine Itself.
• Whatever you Honor above All Things, that which you so Honor will have Dominion over you. But if you give yourself to the Domination of God, you will thus have Dominion over All Things.
• To neglect things of the smallest consequence, is not the least thing in human Life.
• The greatest Honor which can be paid to God, is to Know and Imitate Him.
• Mind is First Cause; Creation is the Effect.
• Psychic manipulation of matter is the Normal Occurrence.
• There is not anything, indeed, which wholly resembles God; nevertheless, the Imitation of Him as much as possible by an inferior nature is grateful to Him.
• A healthy Mind is a Castle that cannot be invaded without the Will of its Master.
• God, indeed, is not in want of anything, but the Wise man is in want of God Alone. He, therefore, who is in want but of few things, and those necessary, emulates Him who is in want of nothing.
• Endeavour to be great in the estimation of Divinity, but among men avoid envy.
• I Am with God and God is with Me, But God only is God and I Am His Son.
• The Wise man whose estimation with men was but small while he was living, will be renowned when he is dead.
• Consider all the time to be lost to you in which you Do Not Think of Divinity.
• A good Intellect is the choir of Divinity.
• I AM a Pure, Perfect, Unlimited, Creative, Spiritual Energy Light Being that can Never Fail..
• A bad Intellect is the choir of evil Demons.
• Honour that which is Just, on this very account that it is Just.
• You will not be concealed from Divinity when you act unjustly, nor even when you think of doing so.
• There is No Thought so Extensive or so Profound as to Comprehend the Infinite Expanse of Divine Creations.
• The Divine Mind of God is a Fierce, Absolute and Uncompromising Force.
• The foundation of piety is continence; but the Summit of Piety is the Love of God.
• Wish that what is expedient and not what is pleasing may happen to you.
• Rites, Rituals and Ceremonies keep a person in a sense of Separation from God.
• Such as you wish your neighbor to be to you, such also be you to your neighbor.
• That which God gives you, no one can take away.
• The Eternal God Cannot and Never Could Be Born; HE IS, HE HAS BEEN, HE WILL BE.
• Neither do nor even Think of that which you are not willing God should Know.
• Before you do anything Think of God, that His Light may precede your energies.
• The Soul is Illuminated by the recollection of Deity.
• The use of all animals as food is indifferent, but it is more rational to abstain from them.
• God is not the author of any evil.
• Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly before thy God.
• Magic is causing change to occur in accordance with WILL.
• You should not possess more than the use, of the body requires.
• No poison can kill a positive Thinker, and No medicine can save a negative Thinker.
• Possess those things which no one can take from you.
• Bear that which is necessary, as it is necessary.
• God is a Circle, the Center of which is Everywhere and the Circumference Nowhere.
• Ask those things of God which it is worthy of God to bestow.
• Silence of the Heart is necessary so you can hear God Everywhere.
• Knowing yourself is True Wisdom, Mastering yourself is True Power.
• Not Understanding your Own MIND is a grievous fault.
• The reason which is in you, is the Light of your Life.
• Ask those things of God which you cannot receive from man.
• Wish that those things which labor ought to precede, may be possessed by you after labor.
• Be not anxious to please the multitude.
• Magick is the Intentional Spiritual practice of Directing Will and Energy to Create real-world change.
• It is not proper to despise those things of which we shall be in want after the dissolution of the body.
• Those that are Lead by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God.
• You should not ask of Divinity that which, when you have obtained, you will not perpetually possess.
• Accustom your Soul after it has Conceived all that is great of Divinity, to conceive something great of itself.
• Esteem nothing so precious, which a bad man may take from you.
• To Know the ONE in All Things, and All Things in the ONE - is the Philosopher's Stone.
• He is dear to Divinity, who considers those things alone to be precious, which are esteemed to be so by Divinity.
• Everything which is more than necessary to man, is hostile to him.
• The Many are the One and the One is the ALL.
• The Wise Seek release not from the phenomenon of death, but from bondage to Ignorance, for Ignorance is the Most Grievous Affliction of the Soul.
• He who Loves that which is not expedient, will not Love that which is expedient.
• The Intellect of the Wise man is always with Divinity.
• God dwells in the Intellect of the Wise man.
• Every desire is insatiable, and therefore is always in want.
• The Wise man is always similar to Himself.
• The One is from the One, by the One, in the One.
• An earthly man is a mortal God, and the Heavenly God is an Immortal Man
• The Knowledge and Imitation of Divinity are alone sufficient to beatitude.
• From the One is born Many, and the Many return to the One.
• Knowledge without use and expression is a vain thing, bringing No good to its possessor.
• Use Lying Like Poison.
• Nothing is so peculiar to Wisdom, as Truth.
• The greatest Evil in man is NOT knowing God.
• When you preside over men, remember that Divinity also presides over you.
• Be persuaded that the end of Life is to Live conformably to Divinity.
• Depraved affections are the beginning of sorrows.
• The real secret of Power is Consciousness of that Power.
• Genuine Wisdom (Sophia) cannot coexist with Illusion, Deception, or Willful Ignorance.
• An evil disposition is the disease of the Soul; but injustice and impiety are the death of it.
• Use all men in such a way, as if you were the common curator of all things after God.
• He who uses mankind badly, uses himself badly.
• A Master has Conscious control of All Thoughts and Feelings.
• Wish that you may be able to benefit your enemies.
• Endure all things, in order that you may Live conformably to God.
• By honoring a Wise man, you will honor yourself.
• In all your actions place God before your eyes.
• You are permitted to refuse matrimony, in order that you may Live incessantly adhering to God. If, however, as one knowing the battle, you are willing to fight, take a wife, and beget children.
• To Live, indeed, is not in our Power, but to Live Rightly Is.
• Be unwilling to admit accusations against the man who is studious of Wisdom.
• Reality is Relative, Exactly as you Perceive It.
• If you wish to Live with hilarity, be unwilling to do many things. For in a multitude of actions, you will be minor.
• He who Lives in Harmony with himself, Lives in Harmony with the Universe.
• Every cup should be sweet to you which extinguishes thirst.
• Fly from intoxication as you would from insanity.
• Truth is like a picture, it's the Observer that makes it Good or Bad.
• Divine Love reveals the nature of God, Eternal Truth discloses His name in Ever-Enlarging proportions.
• Every Mind Conceives and Expresses Truth in proportion to its Degree of Development or Spiritual Elevation.
• No good originates from the body.
• Think that you suffer a great punishment when you obtain the object of corporeal desire; for the attainment of such objects never satisfies desire.
• Invoke God as a witness to whatever you do.
• The bad man does not think there is a providence.
• All Truth is deeply hidden by Ignorance and Pride.
• God is in All men; but all men are not in God, that is why they suffer.
• Assert that which possesses Wisdom in you to be the True man.
• The Wise man participates of God.
• Let God be your Life; then God Lives, acts, performs and IS your very Being.
• Where that which is Wise in you resides, there also is your Good.
• That which is not noxious to the Soul, is not noxious to man.
• He who unjustly expels a Wise man from the body, confers a benefit on him by his iniquity. For he thus becomes liberated, as it were, from bones.
• The fear of death renders a man sad through the Ignorance of his Soul.
• You will not possess Intellect, till you Understand that you have it.
• Think that your body is the Garment of your Soul; and therefore Preserve it Pure.
• Impure dæmons vindicate to themselves the impure Soul.
• Speak not of God to every man.
• There are Truths in all religions, but no single religion contains all Truths.
• It is dangerous and the danger is not small, to speak of God even things which are True.
• A True assertion respecting God is an assertion of God.
• No one can ever know God, as long as he considers a force opposed to God.
• You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.
• He does not Know God who Does Not Worship Him.
• The man who is worthy of God is also a God among men.
• Only the Good is True, only Truth Lives in my Thoughts; that Truth brings only Good to me.
• It is better to have nothing, than to possess much and impart it to no one.
• He who Thinks that there is a God, and that nothing is taken care of by him, differs in no respect from him who does not believe that there is a God.
• He honors God in the best manner who renders his Intellect as much as possible similar to God.
• If you injure no one, you will fear no one.
• I Know that I Know Nothing.
• No one is Wise who looks downward to the earth.
• To lie is to deceive in Life, and to be deceived.
• Recognize what God is, and what that is in you which recognizes God.
• It is not death, but a bad Life, that destroys the Soul.
• If you Know Him by whom you were made, you will Know Yourself.
• All are without Excuse who neglect the Improvement of their Minds.
• Be the Example, NOT the Excuse.
• It is not possible for a man to Live conformable to Divinity, unless he acts modestly, well, and justly.
• Divine Wisdom is True Science.
• ABRACADABRA literally means "I will Create as I Speak."
• You should not dare to speak of God to an impure Soul.
• The Wise man follows God, and God follows the Soul of the Wise man.
• A king rejoices in those whom he governs, and therefore God rejoices in the Wise man. He who governs likewise, is inseparable from those whom he governs; and therefore God is inseparable from the Soul of the Wise man, which he defends and governs.
• The Wise man is governed by God and on this account is blessed.
• To the Pure all things are Pure; It might be equally said that to the Godly, all things are God.
• A scientific knowledge of God causes a man to use few words.
• To use many words when speaking of God, produces an Ignorance of God.
• The man who possesses a Knowledge of God, will not be very ambitious.
• The erudite. chaste, and Wise Soul, is the prophet of the Truth of God.
• Accustom yourself always to look to Divinity.
• A Wise Intellect is the mirror of God.
• Real Freedom is being Free from Ignorance, Fear, and Torturing Doubt.
• As the Mind, so the man; Bondage or Liberation are in your Own Mind.
• By the Power of Truth, I, while Living, have Conquered the Universe.
• The Sum of All Lives, the One Life, is the Great Principle, the Absolute called God.
• There is only One Law of Life, and that is "LOVE".
• Evil is opposition to the Law of Love.
• All Truth is folly to those who Know it Not, all Truth is Wisdom to him who Receives It.
• All True Worship is prayer or demand for the quality admired in that which is Worshipped.
• He that has True Faith has no need to believe.
• The man who knows the Law and uses it will be Supreme.
• Faith is Absolute Trust, a deep sense of Connectedness with the Infinite Unmanifest.