Quotes About Mystery

This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer

Aleister Crowley

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.

What do I mean when I say that I think I was Eliphaz Lévi ? No more than that I possess some of his most essential characteristics, and that some of the incidents in his life are remembered by me as my own. There doesn't seem any impossibility about these bundles of Sankhara being shared by two or more persons. We certainly do not know enough of what actually takes place to speak positively on any such point. Don't lose any sleep over it.

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.

Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands of another, no matter for what hope of gain, is one of the mysteries of perverse psychology.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour. —The Cry of the 3rd Aethyr Which Is Called ZON

El alma tiene extraños refugios.

Fue la casualidad. O quizá no, quizá fue más sencillo que eso. Quizá fue simplemente que a veces la vida nos quita cosas y otras, cuando menos creemos necesitarlo, decide cuidarnos, fiel a una ley de la compensación que no responde a la física ni a la química, sino a un orden que nadie ha sabido explicar todavía.

I sre?an je? -Eh, sre?an? Ko bi to mogao da zna? Sre?a ili nesre?a, te tajne ?uvaju zidovi a zidovi imaju uši, ali nemaju jezik.

I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.

Love must be like a great tragedy. … Like the greatest mystery in the world! None of mundane comforts, calculations and compromises must touch it.

Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

beyond the end of the world

Fanno delle cose, le donne, alle volte, che c'è da rimanerci secchi. Potresti passare una vita a provarci: ma non saresti capace di avere quella leggerezza che hanno loro, alle volte. Sono leggere dentro. Dentro.

an impossible geometry

Stava pensando alla misteriosa permanenza dell'amore, nella corrente mai ferma della vita.

Jasper Gwyn diceva che tutti siamo qualche pagina di un libro, ma di un libro che nessuno ha mai scritto e che invano cerchiamo negli scaffali della nostra mente.